Publications

When You Have Corrupt Friends Abroad: The Impact of Strategic Corruption on Sudan’s Democratic Collapse

Dr Saba Kassa , Haytham Karar

High-level Corruption: an Analysis of Schemes, Costs and of Policy Recommendations

2025 | Quick guide

Quick Guide 38: Border corruption

Dr Jacopo Costa , Dr Saba Kassa

2025 | Quick guide

Quick Guide 37: Strategic corruption

Dr Saba Kassa , Monica Guy

2025 | Quick guide

Quick Guide 36: Corruption and security

Dr Saba Kassa , Monica Guy

2025 | Quick guide

Quick Guide 35: Sexual corruption

Jude Schönberg

Addressing Bribery and Associated Social Norms in Healthcare: Results of a Behaviour Change Intervention in Tanzania

Dr Claudia Baez Camargo , Violette Gadenne , Veronica Mkoji , Dilhan Perera , Ruth Persian , Richard Sambaiga , Tobias Stark

2024 | Working paper

Working Paper 52: Navigating the political context: Practice insights and adaptive strategies to strengthen the anti-corruption and asset recovery justice chain

Turning Legally Obtained Resources into Illegal Payments: A Money Dirtying Scheme

Dr Jacopo Costa , David Jancsics

2024 | Quick guide

Quick Guide 23: Informal networks and anti-corruption

Dr Saba Kassa , Dr Claudia Baez Camargo , Dr Jacopo Costa

Corruption and Social Norms: A New Arrow in the Quiver

Ina Kubbe , Dr Claudia Baez Camargo , Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church

2024 | Guidelines

Designing social norms and behaviour change interventions: Guidance resources for conservation practitioners

Dr Claudia Baez Camargo

2024 | Guidelines

Guías de orientación práctica: las ciencias del comportamiento en esfuerzos de conservación

Dr Claudia Baez Camargo

2023 | Research case study

Research Case Study 6: Sextortion – an unaddressed form of corruption and sexual abuse

Jude Schönberg

2023 | Research case study

Research Case Study 5: Harnessing behavioural approaches against corruption

Dr Claudia Baez Camargo , Dr Saba Kassa

2023 | Working paper

Working Paper 49: Dirty deals – Case studies on corruption in waste management and trade

Nancy Isarin , Dr Claudia Baez Camargo , Dr Amanda Cabrejo le Roux

2023 | Guidelines

Translating political economy insights into conservation practice: a six-step guide

Micol Martini , Dr Saba Kassa

2023 | Research case study

Research Case Study 4: Deconstructing a criminal network involved in illegal wildlife trade between East Africa and Southeast Asia

Dr Jacopo Costa

Organisational forms of corruption networks: the Odebrecht-Toledo case

David Jancsics , Dr Jacopo Costa

2023 | Working paper

Working Paper 47: Conflict of interest legislation in Brazil, South Korea and the European Union: International case studies

Dr Jacopo Costa

2023 | Working paper

Working Paper 45: Strategic anti-corruption communications – Guidance for behaviour change interventions

Dr Claudia Baez Camargo , Jude Schönberg

2023 | Research case study

Research Case Study 3: Exposing the networks behind transnational corruption and money laundering schemes

Dr Jacopo Costa

2023 | Research case study

Research Case Study 2: Leveraging informal networks for anti-corruption in East Africa

Dr Claudia Baez Camargo , Dr Saba Kassa , Dr Jacopo Costa

2023 | Research case study

Research Case Study 1: Targeting corrupt behaviours in a Tanzanian hospital: A social norms approach

Dr Claudia Baez Camargo

How political economy analysis can support corruption risk assessments to strengthen law enforcement against wildlife crimes

Dr Saba Kassa , Dr Jacopo Costa , Cosimo Stahl , Dr Claudia Baez Camargo

2022 | Commissioned study, Report

Behavioural insights and anti-corruption: A practitioner-tailored review of the latest evidence (2016–2022)

2022 | Commissioned study, Report

Adopting a peer-led approach to disseminate anti-corruption messages: Results of the network survey

Informal networks as investment: A qualitative analysis from Uganda and Tanzania

Dr Claudia Baez Camargo , Dr Jacopo Costa , Lucy Koechlin

2022 | Working paper

Working Paper 40: Developing anti-corruption interventions addressing social norms: Lessons from a field pilot in Tanzania

Dr Claudia Baez Camargo

2022 | Article, Commissioned study, Working paper

Working Paper 39: Behavioural drivers of corruption facilitating illegal wildlife trade – Problem analysis and state of the field review

Dr Claudia Baez Camargo , Gayle Burgess

2022 | Policy brief

Policy Brief 9: Informal networks and what they mean for anti-corruption practice

Dr Claudia Baez Camargo , Dr Jacopo Costa , Dr Saba Kassa

The nexus between corruption and money laundering: deconstructing the Toledo‑Odebrecht network in Peru

Dr Jacopo Costa

Determinants and drivers of wildlife trafficking: A qualitative analysis in Uganda

Dr Saba Kassa , Dr Claudia Baez Camargo , Dr Jacopo Costa , Robert Lugolobi

Structures, functions and flows of IWT: deconstructing a criminal network between East Africa and Southeast Asia

Dr Jacopo Costa

Papering over cracks or building stronger systems together? Financial crime in the context of covid-19

2021 | Policy brief

Policy Brief 8: It takes a network to defeat a network – What Collective Action practitioners can learn from research into corrupt networks

Dr Claudia Baez Camargo , Dr Jacopo Costa , Vanessa Hans , Lucy Koechlin , Scarlet Wannenwetsch

Case studies from Tanzania: GI-ACE research on informal networks and corruption

Dr Claudia Baez Camargo , Dr Jacopo Costa , Lucy Koechlin , Danstan Mukono

2021 | Article, Report

Informal networks as investment in East Africa

Dr Claudia Baez Camargo , Dr Jacopo Costa , Lucy Koechlin

2021 | Commissioned study, Report

Case studies from Uganda: GI-ACE research on informal networks and corruption

Dr Claudia Baez Camargo , Dr Jacopo Costa , Lucy Koechlin , Robert Lugolobi

The role of informal networks in promoting illegal wildlife trade: a qualitative analysis from Uganda

Dr Jacopo Costa , Dr Claudia Baez Camargo , Dr Saba Kassa , Robert Lugolobi

2021 | Policy brief

Policy Brief 7: Reducing the social acceptability of wildlife trafficking through behaviour change interventions

Dr Saba Kassa , Dr Jacopo Costa , Robert Lugolobi , Dr Claudia Baez Camargo

Insider’s corruption versus outsider’s ethicality? Individual responses to conflicting institutional logics

Maral Muratbekova-Touron , Camila Lee Park , Mauro Fracarolli Nunes

2021 | Report, Working paper

Working Paper 36: Revealing the networks behind corruption and money laundering schemes: an analysis of the Toledo–Odebrecht case using social network analysis and network ethnography

Dr Jacopo Costa

Gendered corruption: Initial insights into sextortion and double bribery affecting female businesswomen in Malawi

2021 | Quick guide

Quick Guide 21: Strategic anti-corruption guidelines for development agencies

Dr Claudia Baez Camargo

2021 | Policy brief

Policy Brief 6: Bringing intelligence and social network analysis together to fight illegal wildlife trade

Dr Jacopo Costa

2021 | Report, Working paper

Working Paper 35: Social network analysis applied to illegal wildlife trade between East Africa and Southeast Asia

Dr Jacopo Costa

2020 | Policy brief

Policy Brief 5: Curbing wildlife trafficking in Uganda: lessons for practitioners

Dr Saba Kassa , Dr Jacopo Costa , Robert Lugolobi , Dr Claudia Baez Camargo

2020 | Working paper

Working Paper 33: A worm’s-eye view of wildlife trafficking in Uganda – the path of least resistance

Dr Saba Kassa , Dr Jacopo Costa , Robert Lugolobi , Dr Claudia Baez Camargo

Petty corruption in the public sector: A comparative study of three East African countries through a behavioural lens

Dr Claudia Baez Camargo , Paul Bukuluki , Richard Sambaiga , Tharcisse Gatwa , Dr Saba Kassa , Cosimo Stahl