It is estimated that over a trillion dollars are lost in bribery around the world every year. Such a trend not only creates an obstacle for development, but it also threatens the very existence of democracy, rule of law and human rights. In many developing countries, NGOs and activists working to address the problem of corruption often risk their lives.
In this context, the Finnish Development Cooperation of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland has published a free online guide called “Anti-Corruption Handbook for Development Cooperation.”
The objective of the Handbook is to provide conceptual and technical guidance to enable “development practitioners” to:
Become better equipped to effectively support the anti-corruption work in development co-operation
- Acquire useful tools to analyse the governance situations by using tools like governance assessments (GAs) and the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC) and thus, to fulfil the potential provided by these tools, and promote political dialogue and operational activities
- Better contribute to the design and implementation of development programmes by mainstreaming governance and anti-corruption (GAC) issues and to better design and follow-up on specific anti-corruption programmes, NGO support, general budget and sector support
- Become familiar with the legislative and judicial means of strengthening governance and preventing corruption.
You can freely download this publication at this link.
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We walk tall in such arenas but with our voices unheard. For fear of being crushed but nevertheless, we must and should be the fearless soldiers in the battle front! Giving Up is not noble indeed but cowardice it is! Therefore I challenge every actor, every activist to be royal an bold;growing not cold in the face of threats. For the masses we represent cry for liberation from the tiger’s paws. Shall we say that there on novelty in standing up for justice, transparency and accountability, watch and stay not innert, combining reactive and proactive tools to form and give an answer to the questors. Only be brave then