Our helpdesk: on-demand research on corruption
What’s at stake?
Corruption is a cross-cutting issue – its impacts are felt across a range of fields and sectors, and it intertwines with other issues. This also means that anti-corruption knowledge is often highly fragmented across different fields, regions and organisations. Our Helpdesk bridges these gaps by compiling concise responses to practical anti-corruption questions, so that practitioners can bring the power of knowledge to the anti-corruption fight.
What we’re doing about it
The Helpdesk is a knowledge service that offers on-demand research on corruption to the Transparency International movement, EU development practitioners, U4 partners and other stakeholders.
Subscribers to the service can ask any corruption-related question and receive a targeted answer within a guaranteed time frame. Questions are answered in the form of corruption briefs, which draw on our pool of contributing experts to harness the full spectrum of expertise available across and beyond the Transparency International movement.
Who’s involved
The Helpdesk relies on a pool of experts identified to deliver a top-quality, networked knowledge service, ensuring thematic coverage of key issues with geographic diversity. This pool of experts is drawn from academic partners, external practitioners and Transparency International‘s own network of experts. The network is likely to expand as new knowledge needs are identified.
Our approach
Each Helpdesk answer provides a synthesis of the state of research on a specific topic, lessons learnt from case studies as well as practical recommendations for anti-corruption approaches. Topics cover a wide range of corruption-related issues, from the effectiveness of anti-corruption agencies, to the accountability of political parties, to recent trends in anti-bribery laws.
All answers deemed useful for a wider audience – unless explicitly classified as confidential by the enquirer – are made anonymous, edited for the web, and published online on the Transparency International, U4 and Capacity4dev websites, in order to be made available to the broader anti-corruption community.
More…
- Submit your question to the Helpdesk: tihelpdesk@transparency.org
- Browse through and comment on the Helpdesk living knowledge collection
- Join our network of experts: contact Marie Chêne at mchene@transparency.org
All answers listed in the files below can be accessed on request via tihelpdesk@transparency.org
