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Humanitarian assistance injects valuable resources into resource-poor and often insecure contexts with high levels of need. The complexity of humanitarian operations and their rapidly increasing budgets make addressing corruption and the taboos...

The bloody conflict that ravaged Sierra Leone until 2002 devastated the country's infrastructure, including its schools. Although the post-conflict period ended officially in 2006, a lack of accurate, reliable and timely data has resulted in poor...

TI national chapters in the G8 countries reviewed the Leaders' commitments since 2002 with respect to reducing corruption, assessed progress implementing those commitments and concluded that performance falls short with profound adverse consequences...

Corruption is the cause and core of many human rights violations. Among countries, there is a generalised trend of systemic corruption coexisting with an institutionalised failure to respect human rights. The three countries where perceived...

The Open Budget Survey 2008, a comprehensive evaluation of budget transparency in 85 countries, finds that the state of budget transparency around the world is deplorable. This encourages inappropriate, wasteful, and corrupt spending and-because it...

This report describes research on the problem of corruption in humanitarian assistance, carried out in 2007 and 2008 by the Feinstein International Center of Tufts University (FIC) in collaboration with the Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) at the...

Launched in 2005 as a part of the regional consultations on the theme for the Asia Pacific HDR (APHDR) Trade on Human Terms, the Network was re-invigorated, following the UNDP Management Board's decision to focus on corruption as the next APHDR...