• Civil Society Procurement Monitoring: Challenges and Opportunities 

      De Simone, Francesco; Shah, Shruti (A New Role for Citizens in public Procurement, Chapter, 2012-01-01)
      The article provides an overview of the involvement of civil society organiza!ons and citizens in public procurement. It analyses the main challenges and opportuni!es arising from civil society procurement monitoring ...
    • Corruption indicators in Performance Assessment Frameworks for budget support 

      Rao, Sumedh; Marquette, Heather (U4 Issue 2012:1, Research report, 2012-03-01)
      Corruption indicators have been used in budget support Performance Assessment Frameworks (PAFs) for a variety of purposes, including to control for misappropriation of funds, assess Government performance on fighting ...
    • Methods for learning what works and why in anti-corruption: An introduction to evaluation methods for practitioners 

      Johnsøn, Jesper; Søreide, Tina (U4 Issue 2013:8, Research report, 2013-08-01)
      Evaluations of donor-funded anti-corruption reforms and programmes would benefit from upgrading and diversifying the methods used to document effects. Better evaluations in turn would improve the evidence base for the ...
    • Reality Checks in Mozambique. 2nd Annual Report - Governance 

      Tvedten, Inge (Research report, 2012-12-21)
      A series of five “Reality Checks” will take place in the period 2011-2016, focussing on the dynamics of poverty and well-being with a particular focus on good governance, agriculture/climate and energy that are key sectors ...
    • Setting a Standard for Africa? Lessons from the 1991 Zambian Elections 

      Andreassen, Bård-Anders; Geisler, Gisela; Tostensen, Arne (Research report, Research report, 1992)
      This report provides an assessment of the transition to a multi-party system of government in Zambia. The first section gives a general background to processes of democratisation in Africa, while the subsequent ones deal ...
    • Why, when and how to use the Global Corruption Barometer 

      Johnsøn, Jesper; Hardoon, Deborah (U4 Brief 2012:5, Report, 2012-07-23)
      Data from Transparency International’s Global Corruption Barometer (GCB) is useful for diagnosing corruption. Development practitioners can in particular benefit from the tool at the early identification and formulation ...