Gateway: tools to measure corruption
What’s at stake?
Corruption is widely recognised as a serious impediment to both economic growth and social well-being, costing the global economy more than 5 per cent of global GDP (US$ 2.6 trillion) each year. In order to fight corruption, governments, business actors and civil society need reliable information on which forms it takes and where it occurs. Yet because it is a covert activity, corruption is notoriously hard to measure.
What we’re doing about it
The GATEway project was conceived to help make sense of the rapidly evolving field of corruption measurement. The project maps and analyses the range of corruption assessment tools in existence in order to identify promising trends and uncover important gaps which may need to be filled. At the same time, it aims to assist those who wish to measure corruption to match their needs with existing tools.
GATEway offers:
- Tool Database. An online database of over 500 diagnostic tools, searchable by key criteria and updated at regular intervals
- Topic Guides. An accompanying set of topic guides on how to select and use diagnostic tools in particular sectors.
- Practitioners’ Experiences. A set of online videos capturing people’s experiences of undertaking corruption assessments.
Who’s involved
GATEway is a collaboration between Transparency International, the European Commission and the United Nations Development Programme.
The project is supported by an advisory group of governance and anti-corruption experts from academia, civil society and the donor community.
Our approach
GATEway compiles and codifies information on existing corruption assessment tools. It also engages with the anti-corruption community to collect information on the tools in use in various contexts.
Tools are clustered into ‘tool types’ and key features of each cluster are analysed to give tool-users a better understanding of the respective strengths and weaknesses of the existing approaches and their most appropriate applications.
This information allows those seeking to measure corruption to match their needs with existing tools. GATEway also reveals gaps in the corruption assessment landscape and supports the development of new tools where they are most needed. Through GATEway the anti-corruption community is able to regularly update and re-assess the compiled tools.
