This project aims at assisting three Ukrainian cities in enhancing the quality of municipal governance and in building integrity by supporting local reform initiatives and by monitoring the delivery of local services through the establishment of NGO...

Private supplementary tutoring has long been a major phenomenon in some parts of East Asia, particularly Japan, the Republic of Korea and Taiwan. In recent decades it has grown significantly in both industrialized and less developed societies. This...

Sida's Government Approval Document states that SIDA shall strive to combat corruption, particularly in connection with programmes of development cooperation. One important element in this work is to make applicable more specific guidelines and to...

This report provides an analysis of civil society's role in the process which led to the adoption of the Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions. It also shows how the anti-corruption...

According to this paper, our concept of educational accountability is a vestige of the industrial model of education: At age five, the raw materials (i.e. the children) are delivered to the plant door by their parents; after thirteen years, they...

Conflicts of interest have become a key issue in public debate world-wide. New forms of conflict between individual private interests of public officials and their public duties arise as the public sector has become increasingly commercialised and...

This book emphasizes on concrete experiences of churches, aid agencies and missionary societies during 1992-2002. It also includes biblical, inter-religious and call for responsible leadership.

This book is the result of an action research project carried out by the Partnership for Governance Reform in Indonesia and the World Bank. It sets out to understand from the poor the ways in which corruption intersects with their lives and how it...

Eradication of corruption is one of the most urgent and imperative tasks that must be accomplished if Korea is to become a clean and transparent society. Charged with this mission, the KICAC was created under the anti-corruption act of Korea on...

Este libro se organiza en siete secciones que abordan el análisis del capital social y su relación con el desarrollo, las políticas públicas, la pobreza urbana, la dimensión de género, el mundo rural y la sostenibilidad ambiental. Entre los...