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To fully evaluate an intervention, evaluators will need to look beyond the parameters of the project – both in terms of scope and timeline.

There is never a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer to whether anti-corruption efforts work. For development agencies, potential success factors include collaboration and coordination, building trust, and seizing opportunities as they arise.

Climate and gender policy experts note that what is often missing from the gender mainstreaming strategies in climate actions is leveraging “women’s knowledge, capacity, and agency to adapt, mitigate, and respond to climate change”.

Organisations should improve the statistical claims they make about corruption. But corruption and its consequences are inherently difficult to measure.

Aid being lost to corruption not only undermines the intended project impact, but political scandals surrounding aid embezzlement go on to undermine trust for donors in their national context.

Corruption within climate finance means goals may not be achieved. Anti-corruption efforts need to focus on key sectors and strategies.

Developing appropriate and effective anti-corruption tools and strategies for climate finance can ensure that it is optimised for impact and success.

Interest in researching corruption has grown recently, expanding to new perspectives on cross-border corruption, more refined approaches to measurement, and context-tailored anti-corruption tools.

Success often comes from having feasible approaches that focus on areas where maximum impact can be created.

Professional enablers not only launder dirty money, but they also make it harder for law enforcement officials to identify them and recover stolen assets.