Women meet with policy makers in Rabat, Morocco
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This event will analyse innovative civil society initiatives to combat corruption and promote greater accountability in different settings across the developing world, seeking to understand when such efforts have been successful and why.
Corruption has never been more prominent in the development debate. Here in the UK, eliminating corruption is at the heart of the Prime Minister’s golden thread, and has been a leitmotif of his government’s approach to aid: we will commit to 0.7%, but we will be tougher on how it is spent.
A donkey cart carrying children to a Sudanese school
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This event will explore how a new generation of transparency initiatives, including the Construction Sector Transparency Initiative (CoST) and the Network for Integrity in Reconstruction, has sought to address corruption in fragile states, draw lessons on what has and has not worked and why, and highlight some of the challenges that remain ahead.
Tackling corruption and stemming illicit capital flows out of Africa should be a vital part of efforts to move beyond aid.
| Jonathan Glennie | Global development | guardian.co.uk
The seventh meeting in the '(Re)building Developmental States: From Theory to Practice' series focussed on corruption and anti-corruption.