The programme

GI-ACE supports 14 research partners around the world in generating new evidence that policy makers, practitioners, and advocates can use to design and implement more effective anti-corruption programmes. GI-ACE is part of the ongoing DFID-funded Anti-Corruption Evidence (ACE) research programme and the complement to a parallel programme led by SOAS University of London. GI-ACE builds on an earlier phase of the programme that ran from 2015 to 2018.

Focus of the research

Our research focuses on innovative and practice-oriented projects, covering three priority areas:

  • The international architecture that supports corrupt exchanges
  • Integrity systems in the public and private sectors
  • Tackling corruption at sub-national and sectoral levels

For more information, click on the projects below.

Rationale

The programme will produce outstanding research that helps decision-makers address and solve real corruption problems, such as how to identify malfeasance in public procurement, deterring the theft of medicinal drugs, or determining whether ethics training can reduce corruption in the public sector.

GI-ACE supports learning, communications and engagement across all of our projects, and between researchers and practitioners across the world.

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A central corruption problem in development: urbanisation and the role of professional integrity in urban planning

Civil service reform and anti-corruption: does ethics training reduce corruption in the civil service?

Ethical border trading between Kenya and Uganda for small scale businesses

Identifying and deterring the theft and diversion of medicinal drugs in Malawi

Testing and evidencing the effectiveness of beneficial ownership checks: investigating the laundering of monies and reputations by African and Central Asian elites

Practical interventions for uncovering and identifying ‘beneficial ownership’ as a mechanism to recover the proceeds of corruption – a Nigerian case study

Does transparency bring cleanliness? Offshore financial secrecy reform and corruption control

Centralised vs decentralised monitoring to reduce corruption: insights from comparisons across Indian states

International anti-corruption laws and local social norms: interactions and implications for policy

Rewarding good governance through community recognition

Designing effective anti-corruption interventions by gauging the role of formal legal frameworks in network-based governance systems

Curbing Corruption in Procurement

Addressing bribery and favouritism in the Tanzanian health sector: a behavioral approach

Fighting high-level corruption in Africa: Learning from effective law enforcement