Human resource management patterns of (anti) corruption mechanisms within informal networks

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist, Communications and External Relations
+41 61 205 55 12
Biography

In this article, we propose to comprehend the corruption mechanisms of tender bidding processes in terms of Human Resource Management (HRM) practices within informal networks. 

Informal Governance and Corruption – Transcending the Principal Agent and Collective Action Paradigms in Georgia

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist, Communications and External Relations
+41 61 205 55 12
Biography

This Georgia country report is part of a research project funded by the Anti-Corruption Evidence (ACE) Programme of the UK’s Department for International Development (DfID) and the British Academy. 

The project has identified informal practices in selected countries in order to establish their general and specific features in comparative analysis; assess their impact based on the functions they perform in their respective economies and indicate the extent to which they fuel corruption and stifle anticorruption policies. 

Informal Governance and Corruption – Transcending the Principal Agent and Collective Action Paradigms in Kyrgyzstan

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist, Communications and External Relations
+41 61 205 55 12
Biography

This three-part Kyrgyzstan country report is part of a research project funded by the Anti-Corruption Evidence (ACE) Programme of the UK’s Department for International Development (DfID) and the British Academy. 

The project has identified informal practices in selected countries in order to establish their general and specific features in comparative analysis; assess their impact based on the functions they perform in their respective economies and indicate the extent to which they fuel corruption and stifle anticorruption policies. 

Informal Governance and Corruption – Transcending the Principal Agent and Collective Action Paradigms in Kazakhstan

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist, Communications and External Relations
+41 61 205 55 12
Biography

This Kazakhstan country report is part of a research project funded by the Anti-Corruption Evidence (ACE) Programme of the UK’s Department for International Development (DfID) and the British Academy. 

The project has identified informal practices in selected countries in order to establish their general and specific features in comparative analysis; assess their impact based on the functions they perform in their respective economies and indicate the extent to which they fuel corruption and stifle anticorruption policies. 

Informal Governance and Corruption – Transcending the Principal Agent and Collective Action Paradigms in Rwanda

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist, Communications and External Relations
+41 61 205 55 12
Biography

This Rwanda country report is part of a research project funded by the Anti-Corruption Evidence (ACE) Programme of the UK’s Department for International Development (DfID) and the British Academy. 

The project has identified informal practices in selected countries in order to establish their general and specific features in comparative analysis; assess their impact based on the functions they perform in their respective economies and indicate the extent to which they fuel corruption and stifle anticorruption policies. 

Informal Governance and Corruption – Transcending the Principal Agent and Collective Action Paradigms in Uganda

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist, Communications and External Relations
+41 61 205 55 12
Biography

This report is part of a research project funded by the Anti-Corruption Evidence (ACE) Programme of the UK’s Department for International Development (DfID) and the British Academy. 

The project has identified informal practices in selected countries in order to establish their general and specific features in comparative analysis; assess their impact based on the functions they perform in their respective economies and indicate the extent to which they fuel corruption and stifle anticorruption policies. 

Informal Governance and Corruption – Transcending the Principal Agent and Collective Action Paradigms in Tanzania

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist, Communications and External Relations
+41 61 205 55 12
Biography

Alternative title: Dismantling networks of corruption: challenges and opportunities in reforming informal governance in Tanzania.

This Tanzania country report is part of a research project funded by the Anti-Corruption Evidence (ACE) Programme of the UK’s Department for International Development (DfID) and the British Academy. 

The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist, Communications and External Relations
+41 61 205 55 12
Biography

Alena Ledeneva invites you on a voyage of discovery, to explore society’s open secrets, unwritten rules and know-how practices. Broadly defined as ‘ways of getting things done’, these invisible yet powerful informal practices tend to escape articulation in official discourse. They include emotion-driven exchanges of gifts or favours and tributes for services, interest-driven know-how (from informal welfare to informal employment and entrepreneurship), identity-driven practices of solidarity, and power-driven forms of co-optation and control.

Where does informality stop and corruption begin? Informal governance and the public/private crossover in Mexico, Russia and Tanzania

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist, Communications and External Relations
+41 61 205 55 12
Biography

Despite significant investment and anti-corruption capacity building in the past decades, "most systematically corrupt countries are considered to be just as corrupt now as they were before the anti-corruption interventions"(1). Statements like this are indicative of the frustration shared by practitioners and scholars alike at the apparent lack of success in controlling corruption worldwide and point to the need to rethink our understanding of the factors that fuel corruption and make it so hard to abate. 

Short videos on Collective Action – what, why, who, how and when the revolution will come

There's a lot of buzz about Collective Action as a means to tackle corruption. But what is it exactly? What is its value? How is it good for business? Who gets involved in Collective Action initiatives and why?

This week, we will be releasing five short videos about Collective Action. Filmed during the International Centre for Collective Conference in November 2018, they feature leading voices in the field of anti-corruption Collective Action.