Climate governance - Climate finance – money intended to help at-risk countries prevent climate change and adapt to its effects – can be vulnerable to corruption. Without strong governance standards, climate finance can be diverted from vital prevention and adaptation activities into private bank accounts and ...
Report published – Sep 2018
Politics and government - The financing of political parties provokes distrust and cynicism - often for good reason - about the motives and activities of both the donors and recipients of political donations. Yet modern elections cannot be contested without money. Staff costs and campaigning expenses are necessary facts of ...
Policy position published – Aug 2018
Land - This report analyses the land registration system and applicable legal framework in Sierra Leone to determine whether these ensure adequate transparency and accountability, particularly in the context of beneficial ownership. The research for this report was conducted as part of the process of ...
Report published – Jul 2018
Land - In many countries, unidentified private individuals and legal entities obtain significant economic benefits from land. This lack of transparency can make it harder for affected communities and governments to hold them accountable for land use decision-making and any sort of violation they commit. ...
Report published – Jul 2018
Advocacy - To many observers, lobbying appears to be a process in which well-resourced interest groups shape public policy according to their own interests in clandestine meetings with officials. This negative perception prevails for good reason: the vast majority of lobbying worldwide is unregulated. ...
Policy position published – Jul 2018
Intergovernmental bodies - Anonymous companies underpin corrupt and criminal financial transactions. They were used in 70 per cent of grand corruption cases reviewed by the World Bank and are one of the oldest tricks in the book for moving, laundering and spending dirty money.
Governments are ending anonymous company ...
Policy position published – Jul 2018
Public procurement - Procurement is one of governments’ most economically significant activities, but it also poses one of the greatest public sector corruption risks. Governments are tackling this problem by implementing open contracting – a suite of complementary policies that improve transparency, public ...
Policy position published – Jul 2018
Whistleblowing - Whistleblowers play an essential role in exposing corruption and other wrongdoing that threaten the public interest. By disclosing information about such misdeeds, whistleblowers have helped save countless lives and billions of euros in public funds.
Protecting whistleblowers from unfair ...
Policy position published – Jul 2018
Forestry - Good governance is vital for achieving effective, efficient and fair REDD+ outcomes, and civil society organisations (CSOs) are in a strong position to monitor REDD+ governance processes, checking that countries are sharing accurate information about their conservation and are really complying with ...
Report published – Jul 2018
Climate governance - The International Maritime Organisation (IMO), the UN’s specialised agency for shipping, aims to create “a regulatory framework for the shipping industry that is fair, effective, universally adopted and implemented.”
Currently, shipping contributes an estimated 2.5 per cent of global ...
Report published – Jul 2018
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