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approach designed by the Basel Institute on Governance. \n\n\n- The first section covers planning: the resources, timing, and other considerations for setting up the assessment. \n- The second section lays out each step of the assessment, with tips, basic instructions, and implementation recommendations for each stage. \n- Finally, the annexes provide sample supporting materials, including a simplified process diagram and map, a sample questionnaire for interviews, and a basic confidentiality agreement.\n\n\nIt was developed under the Basel Institute's \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fgreen-corruption\">Green Corruption programme\u003C\u002Fa> as part of a wider research collaboration between the Basel Institute and Targeting Natural Resource Corruption (\u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Ftnrcproject.org\u002F\">TNRC\u003C\u002Fa>) project consortium. \n\n### About the TNRC project\n\nThe TNRC project seeks to improve biodiversity conservation outcomes by helping practitioners to address the threats posed by corruption to wildlife, fisheries and forests. TNRC harnesses existing knowledge, generates new evidence, and supports innovative policy and practice for more effective anti-corruption programming on the ground.\n\nA USAID-funded project, TNRC is implemented by a consortium of leading organizations in anti-corruption, natural resource management, and conservation: World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre at the Chr. 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Practitioners can play an important role in promoting effective law enforcement to address crime and corruption in support of conservation objectives.\n- Options range from **working directly with partner agencies** and institutions to strengthen their resilience to corruption, to working with other stakeholders to **strengthen wider enabling conditions**.\n- However, **corruption can undermine law enforcement,** rendering it ineffective or even harmful. Applying a “corruption lens” can help shape better and safer strategies for working with law enforcement.\n- Strategic decisions about whether and how to support law enforcement in a particular context therefore require a **strong understanding of local actors, power dynamics, legal and institutional frameworks**, and the underlying drivers and facilitators of corruption.\n\n\nThe Basel Institute's \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fgreen-corruption\">Green Corruption\u003C\u002Fa> team developed the guide in collaboration with TNRC consortium partners and external experts.",[21],[36],"2022-12-28","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002Fe5e0fbcd-1278-4777-85a9-c087a3b917e3?width=600&height=840",[197],{"url":198,"caption":199},"\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fillicit-financial-flows-and-natural-resource-corruption-tnrc-guide"," View related guide: Illicit financial flows and natural resource corruption",[201],{"url":202,"caption":139},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.worldwildlife.org\u002Fpages\u002Ftnrc-guide-law-enforcement-and-criminal-justice",[],[],[206,210,214],{"tags_id":207},{"id":208,"name":209},1374,"Law enforcement",{"tags_id":211},{"id":212,"name":213},1303,"Environment",{"tags_id":215},{"id":216,"name":217},804,"Natural resources",[219],2298,[21],[15],"2023-01-04T11:04:12.000Z","b0662e2a-864d-4888-a1b7-4342b7570b30","2026-06-02T21:22:03.000Z","- Law enforcement and the wider criminal justice system are essential to address both **illegal activities that undermine conservation objectives** and the **corruption that facilitates those activities.**\n- **Crimes and corruption involving wildlife, forests, and fisheries are not “victimless,”** and detecting and deterring them should be prioritized.\n- **Effective enforcement of laws helps create an environment of stability and trust.** This in turn reinforces adherence to laws and regulations that govern natural resources and their use. Practitioners can play an important role in promoting effective law enforcement to address crime and corruption in support of conservation objectives.\n- Options range from **working directly with partner agencies** and institutions to strengthen their resilience to corruption, to working with other stakeholders to **strengthen wider enabling conditions**.\n- However, **corruption can undermine law enforcement,** rendering it ineffective or even harmful. Applying a “corruption lens” can help shape better and safer strategies for working with law enforcement.\n- Strategic decisions about whether and how to support law enforcement in a particular context therefore require a **strong understanding of local actors, power dynamics, legal and institutional frameworks**, and the underlying drivers and facilitators of corruption.","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Flaw-enforcement-criminal-justice-and-natural-resource-corruption-tnrc-guide",{"id":228,"slug":229,"title":230,"status":6,"nid":231,"year":190,"body":232,"external":19,"topic":233,"language":15,"type":234,"date_published":235,"image":236,"citation":14,"publisher":131,"link_internal":237,"link_external":238,"authors":241,"countries":242,"tags":243,"pdf":256,"topics":257,"featured":19,"languages":258,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":54,"date_created":259,"user_updated":223,"date_updated":260,"main_points":261,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":198},2239,"illicit-financial-flows-and-natural-resource-corruption-tnrc-guide","Illicit financial flows and natural resource corruption - 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Extensive literature shows how SNBC initiatives can help combat diverse corruption problems, although for those related to natural resource management the evidence for doing so is sparse.\n\nThis report synthesises the available information and suggests the next steps to redress this current lack of evidence. It seeks to:\n\n\n- Understand what SNBC approaches might or might not work in fighting corruption.\n- Identify entry points for designing SNBC interventions that can effectively reduce corruption related to IWT.\n\n\n### About and acknowledgements\n\nThis Analysis has been produced in association with the Targeting Natural Resource Corruption (TNRC) project. The TNRC project is working to improve biodiversity outcomes by helping practitioners to address the threats posed by corruption to wildlife, fisheries and forests. TNRC harnesses existing knowledge, generates new evidence, and supports innovative policy and practice for more effective anti-corruption programming. Learn more at \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Ftnrcproject.org\">tnrcproject.org\u003C\u002Fa>.\n\nThis publication is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The contents are the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID, the United States Government, or individual TNRC consortium members.\n\nThe publication is part of the Basel Institute on Governance Working Paper Series, ISSN: 2624-9650. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).\n\nSuggested citation: Baez Camargo, Claudia, and Gayle Burgess. 2022. “Behavioural drivers of corruption facilitating illegal wildlife trade: Problem analysis and state of the field review.” Working Paper 39, Basel Institute on Governance. Available at: \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications\u002Fwp-39\">https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications\u002Fwp-39\u003C\u002Fa>",[21,269],"Public Governance",[36,271],"Report","2022-06-01","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F9f6e8d24-9468-43cb-949d-bdbd25d35adb?width=600&height=840","Basel Institute on Governance; TRAFFIC",[],[277],{"url":278,"caption":279},"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.zoom.us\u002Fwebinar\u002Fregister\u002FWN_VUh1-aisS-Su1Cuwc8vWlA"," Register for virtual event - 27 June 2022",[281,285],{"authors_id":282},{"id":283,"name":284},295,"Claudia Baez Camargo",{"authors_id":286},{"id":287,"name":288},501,"Gayle Burgess",[],[291,293,295],{"tags_id":292},{"id":216,"name":217},{"tags_id":294},{"id":212,"name":213},{"tags_id":296},{"id":297,"name":298},848,"Behavioural science",[300],2234,[21,302],"Corruption Prevention and Public Governance",[15],"2022-06-09T13:42:35.000Z","2026-05-31T22:52:04.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fwp-39",{"id":308,"slug":309,"title":310,"status":6,"nid":311,"year":190,"body":312,"external":19,"topic":313,"language":15,"type":314,"date_published":315,"image":316,"citation":14,"publisher":131,"link_internal":317,"link_external":318,"authors":322,"countries":337,"tags":338,"pdf":345,"topics":347,"featured":19,"languages":348,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":54,"date_created":349,"user_updated":55,"date_updated":350,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":134},1753,"where-are-weakest-links-illegal-wildlife-trade-enforcement-chain-lessons-corruption","Where are the weakest links in the illegal wildlife trade enforcement chain? Lessons from corruption risk assessments with agencies in three countries",2214,"This Practice Note:\n\n\n- Summarizes experiences and lessons from conducting corruption risk assessments (CRAs) with authorities responsible for investigations and prosecutions of illegal wildlife trade (IWT) cases in three countries in Africa and Latin America. It seeks to demonstrate the value of adopting a collaborative approach to CRAs, illustrates potential avenues for pursuing such an approach when the right factors are in place, and demonstrates how mapping the criminal justice process provides a solid starting point to identify critical vulnerabilities. The note also highlights factors that might recommend another approach, for example where collaboration cannot be assured.\n- Highlights some common risks that emerged from the CRAs in the three countries and that may negatively affect the progress of IWT cases in other countries. Still, corruption risks vary among countries and agency contexts, and it is not always feasible for practitioners to conduct or initiate a CRA. These general insights can help point practitioners to possible vulnerabilities to look out for.\n\n\nThe practice note was developed by team members of the Basel Institute's \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fgreen-corruption\">Green Corruption programme\u003C\u002Fa> as part of a wider research collaboration between the Basel Institute and the TNRC project consortium. \n\n### Takeaways\n\n\n- Effective enforcement against illegal wildlife trade (IWT) and related crimes is a vital component of wildlife conservation, but corruption risks within law enforcement agencies can undermine their ability to investigate and prosecute such cases. Supporting agencies to identify, evaluate, prioritize, and mitigate their corruption risks can help improve enforcement outcomes, assign scarce resources to areas that pose the highest risks, and build trust and cooperation with other agencies and stakeholders.\n- This TNRC Practice Note describes the lessons and insights from a three-country corruption risk assessment (CRA) exercise, using a collaborative approach that involves engaging with agency staff and relevant stakeholders to illuminate and systematically evaluate major risks. This is a sensitive process that requires strong relationships with agency leadership and a deep understanding of local political, social, and economic factors.\n- In all three countries, mitigating high-priority corruption risks in law enforcement agencies required a constructive, pragmatic, and sustained approach. Working jointly and acknowledging agencies’ political, capacity, and resource constraints can therefore represent a viable alternative to simply penalizing corrupt practices through investigations and audits.\n- Experience suggests that mapping the criminal justice process’ decision points is a crucial first step that builds shared understanding across stakeholders and helps identify corruption risk areas. It can take substantial investments of time to produce such maps, but that investment is usually warranted as it ensures researchers and stakeholders are speaking the same language.\n\n\n### About the TNRC project\n\nThe TNRC project seeks to improve biodiversity conservation outcomes by helping practitioners to address the threats posed by corruption to wildlife, fisheries and forests. TNRC harnesses existing knowledge, generates new evidence, and supports innovative policy and practice for more effective anti-corruption programming on the ground.\n\nA USAID-funded project, TNRC is implemented by a consortium of leading organizations in anti-corruption, natural resource management, and conservation: World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre at the Chr. Michelsen Institute, TRAFFIC, and the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC) at George Mason University.",[21],[36,271],"2022-04-26","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F5f8a6994-0803-4ade-aac0-7a2ba8a398db?width=600&height=840",[],[319],{"url":320,"caption":321},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.worldwildlife.org\u002Fpages\u002Ftnrc-where-are-the-weakest-links-in-the-illegal-wildlife-trade-enforcement-chain-lessons-from-corruption-risk-assessments-with-agencies-in-three-countries","View publication online on TNRC website",[323,327,329,333],{"authors_id":324},{"id":325,"name":326},314,"Manuel Medina",{"authors_id":328},{"id":97,"name":98},{"authors_id":330},{"id":331,"name":332},361,"Taradhinta Suryandari",{"authors_id":334},{"id":335,"name":336},296,"Monica Guy",[],[339,341,343],{"tags_id":340},{"id":145,"name":146},{"tags_id":342},{"id":212,"name":213},{"tags_id":344},{"id":208,"name":209},[346],1781,[21],[15],"2022-04-27T11:53:12.000Z","2026-05-31T22:52:10.000Z",{"id":46,"slug":352,"title":353,"status":6,"nid":354,"year":190,"body":355,"external":19,"topic":356,"language":15,"type":357,"date_published":358,"image":359,"citation":14,"publisher":360,"link_internal":361,"link_external":368,"authors":372,"countries":387,"tags":388,"pdf":393,"topics":394,"featured":19,"languages":395,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":54,"date_created":396,"user_updated":55,"date_updated":152,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":397},"determinants-and-drivers-wildlife-trafficking-qualitative-analysis-uganda","Determinants and drivers of wildlife trafficking: A qualitative analysis in Uganda",2163,"The article analyses drivers and determinants of illicit wildlife trade (IWT), targeting those factors that support the participation of individuals in poaching and transportation of wildlife goods.\n\nThese factors are often explained in economic and institutional terms. Recently, scholars have started to recognise the importance of socio-cultural and behavioural drivers in influencing the individual propensity to engage in wildlife trafficking. The goal is clarifying how behavioural drivers may spur individuals to engage in these phenomena. The research provides further understanding on why wildlife trafficking happens by focusing on the role of the socio-economic context, the broader governance environment, and behavioural drivers associated with sociality and stereotypes in spurring participation in IWT.\n\nThe research is based on fieldwork in Uganda, specifically on 47 interviews with Ugandan-based and international anti-IWT experts and eight focus group discussions with wildlife conservation and anti-corruption experts in Kampala, members of reformed poachers’ networks in Western Uganda, and individuals living around a wildlife habitat in northern Uganda.\n\nThe findings highlight that illicit wildlife trade is spurred by the wish for financial resources (economic factors) and weak governance (quality of governance), and it is justified by mental models, that is, the behavioural drivers such as socio-contextual and normative mechanisms. The research shows the importance of reflecting on the role that behavioural drivers, including sociality and shared understandings of IWT, play in influencing the propensity of individuals to engage in poaching and the early stages of wildlife trafficking.\n\n### Acknowledgement and citation\n\nThis publication arose out of a collaboration between the Basel Institute's \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublic-governance\">Public Governance\u003C\u002Fa> and \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fgreen-corruption\">Green Corruption\u003C\u002Fa> teams. The research presented in this publication forms part of a two-year project aimed at stopping corruption from fuelling illegal wildlife trade between East Africa and Southeast Asia.\n\nThis research was funded by PMI IMPACT, a grant award initiative of Philip Morris International (PMI). In the performance of their research, the authors maintained full independence from PMI. The views and opinions expressed in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of PMI. Neither PMI, nor any of its affiliates, nor any person acting on their behalf may be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained herein.\n\nCitation: Saba Kassa, Claudia Baez-Camargo, Jacopo Costa & Robert Lugolobi (2022) Determinants and Drivers of Wildlife Trafficking: A Qualitative Analysis in Uganda, *Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy*, DOI: \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1080\u002F13880292.2021.2019381\">10.1080\u002F13880292.2021.2019381\u003C\u002Fa>",[21,269],[36],"2022-01-13","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F0f25db65-39c2-4fad-babd-d553fd271acc?width=600&height=840","Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy",[362,365],{"url":363,"caption":364},"\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fworking-paper-33-worms-eye-view-wildlife-trafficking-uganda-path-least-resistance"," Related publication: Working Paper 33: A worm’s-eye view of wildlife trafficking in Uganda – the path of least resistance",{"url":366,"caption":367},"\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fpolicy-brief-5-curbing-wildlife-trafficking-uganda-lessons-practitioners"," Related publication: Policy Brief 5: Curbing wildlife trafficking in Uganda: lessons for practitioners",[369],{"url":370,"caption":371},"https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1080\u002F13880292.2021.2019381","Access article via Taylor & Francis Online",[373,377,379,383],{"authors_id":374},{"id":375,"name":376},303,"Saba Kassa",{"authors_id":378},{"id":283,"name":284},{"authors_id":380},{"id":381,"name":382},304,"Jacopo Costa",{"authors_id":384},{"id":385,"name":386},358,"Robert Lugolobi",[],[389,391],{"tags_id":390},{"id":212,"name":213},{"tags_id":392},{"id":297,"name":298},[],[21,302],[15],"2022-04-27T11:53:21.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fdeterminants-and-drivers-wildlife-trafficking-qualitative-analysis-uganda",{"id":399,"slug":400,"title":401,"status":6,"nid":402,"year":190,"body":403,"external":19,"topic":404,"language":15,"type":406,"date_published":407,"image":408,"citation":14,"publisher":131,"link_internal":409,"link_external":410,"authors":413,"countries":420,"tags":421,"pdf":438,"topics":440,"featured":19,"languages":442,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":54,"date_created":443,"user_updated":55,"date_updated":444,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":445},1768,"targeting-profit-non-conviction-based-forfeiture-environmental-crime","Targeting Profit: Non-Conviction Based Forfeiture in Environmental Crime",2157,"Environmental criminals and their corrupt facilitators get rich by destroying our planet and its natural resources. This publication for the Targeting Natural Resource Corruption (TNRC) project explains how and why to confiscate their illicit assets – with or without a criminal conviction.\n\nThe introductory overview of asset recovery tools to tackle environmental crime was a collaboration between the Basel Institute's \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fgreen-corruption\">Green Corruption programme\u003C\u002Fa> and \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fasset-recovery\">International Centre for Asset Recovery\u003C\u002Fa>. It is part of a wider research collaboration between the Basel Institute and the TNRC project consortium. \n\n### Takeaways\n\n\n- Using legal powers to confiscate assets can be an important element of enforcement against environmental crime because it targets **the profit motive for environmental crime and disrupts the financing of further criminal activity**.\n- **Confiscating illicit assets does not require an individual to be convicted**. Many countries have judicial procedures to confiscate assets derived from criminal activity without the need for a specific criminal conviction.\n- This procedure, referred to as non-conviction based forfeiture (NCBF), can be an **effective way to target the profits from environmental crimes**, where corruption and money laundering are frequently significant components.\n- **Understanding and applying anti-corruption and anti-money laundering laws in their country** is vital for enforcement practitioners to be able to pursue criminals’ assets more effectively. Early coordination with anti-corruption and financial intelligence authorities will assist in this.\n- NCBF is no different to the process of criminal investigation and prosecution, in that it depends on the degree to which good governance, strong and accountable institutions, and a well-functioning justice system are present in a country. Prior to engaging NCBF for environmental corruption cases, **risks should be assessed in a similar manner to the risks of existing law enforcement and prosecution practices** in a given country.\n\n\n### About the TNRC project\n\nThe TNRC project seeks to improve biodiversity conservation outcomes by helping practitioners to address the threats posed by corruption to wildlife, fisheries and forests. TNRC harnesses existing knowledge, generates new evidence, and supports innovative policy and practice for more effective anti-corruption programming on the ground.\n\nA USAID-funded project, TNRC is implemented by a consortium of leading organizations in anti-corruption, natural resource management, and conservation: World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre at the Chr. Michelsen Institute, TRAFFIC, and the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC) at George Mason University.",[405,21],"Asset Recovery",[36,271],"2022-01-10","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F997aba04-a6b1-47e6-8dd5-6fefa85fb5c4?width=600&height=840",[],[411],{"url":412,"caption":321},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.worldwildlife.org\u002Fpages\u002Ftnrc-introductory-overview-targeting-profit-non-conviction-based-forfeiture-in-environmental-crime",[414,418],{"authors_id":415},{"id":416,"name":417},292,"Jonathan Spicer",{"authors_id":419},{"id":97,"name":98},[],[422,426,430,434,436],{"tags_id":423},{"id":424,"name":425},821,"Unexplained wealth",{"tags_id":427},{"id":428,"name":429},1379,"Non-conviction based forfeiture",{"tags_id":431},{"id":432,"name":433},843,"Asset recovery",{"tags_id":435},{"id":246,"name":247},{"tags_id":437},{"id":212,"name":213},[439],1790,[441,21],"Asset Recovery and Enforcement",[15],"2022-04-27T11:53:23.000Z","2026-06-01T22:47:37.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Ftargeting-profit-non-conviction-based-forfeiture-environmental-crime",{"id":447,"slug":448,"title":449,"status":6,"nid":450,"year":190,"body":451,"external":19,"topic":452,"language":15,"type":453,"date_published":454,"image":455,"citation":14,"publisher":456,"link_internal":457,"link_external":458,"authors":465,"countries":468,"tags":469,"pdf":476,"topics":477,"featured":19,"languages":478,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":54,"date_created":443,"user_updated":55,"date_updated":479,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":480},1769,"structures-functions-and-flows-iwt-deconstructing-criminal-network-between-east-africa","Structures, functions and flows of IWT: deconstructing a criminal network between East Africa and Southeast Asia",2156,"The paper investigates the role of criminal networks in fostering illegal wildlife trade (IWT), and how these relational structures interact with transnational organized crime. The paper frames these topics within the debate around the opportunistic or organized nature of IWT. The aim is to understand how chaotic behaviors can transform into an ordered and organized strategy.\n\nSocial network analysis (SNA) and network ethnography were conducted to explore the crime network surrounding a wildlife trafficker based in East Africa. The empirical results suggest that criminal networks operate as \"machine of order\" that transform opportunistic behaviors at the micro level into ordered strategies at the macro level.\n\nEmpirical results also suggest that organized crime has an important role in making the process of transforming opportunistic into organized behaviours more efficient and more effective.\n\n### Acknowledgement and citation\n\nThis publication arose out of a collaboration between the Basel Institute's \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublic-governance\">Public Governance\u003C\u002Fa> and \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fgreen-corruption\">Green Corruption\u003C\u002Fa> teams. The research presented in this publication forms part of a two-year project aimed at stopping corruption from fuelling illegal wildlife trade between East Africa and Southeast Asia.\n\nThis research was funded by PMI IMPACT, a grant award initiative of Philip Morris International (PMI). In the performance of their research, the authors maintained full independence from PMI. The views and opinions expressed in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of PMI. Neither PMI, nor any of its affiliates, nor any person acting on their behalf may be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained herein.\n\nCitation: Costa, J. Structures, functions and flows of IWT: deconstructing a criminal network between East Africa and Southeast Asia. *Crime Law Soc Change* (2022). \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1007\u002Fs10611-021-10009-8\">https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1007\u002Fs10611-021-10009-8\u003C\u002Fa>",[21,269],[36],"2022-01-08","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F5363c185-1d3b-46af-a1ff-d0a28819f2b1?width=600&height=840","Crime, Law and Social Change",[],[459,462],{"url":460,"caption":461},"https:\u002F\u002Frdcu.be\u002FcEzfQ","View article (full text, no download)",{"url":463,"caption":464},"https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1007\u002Fs10611-021-10009-8"," Log in to Springer Link to download article",[466],{"authors_id":467},{"id":381,"name":382},[],[470,472],{"tags_id":471},{"id":212,"name":213},{"tags_id":473},{"id":474,"name":475},967,"Organised crime",[],[21,302],[15],"2026-05-29T22:23:13.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fstructures-functions-and-flows-iwt-deconstructing-criminal-network-between-east-africa",{"id":482,"slug":483,"title":484,"status":6,"nid":485,"year":16,"body":486,"external":19,"topic":487,"language":15,"type":490,"date_published":491,"image":492,"citation":14,"publisher":493,"link_internal":494,"link_external":495,"authors":499,"countries":500,"tags":501,"pdf":502,"topics":504,"featured":19,"languages":505,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":54,"date_created":506,"user_updated":55,"date_updated":479,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":507},1770,"papering-over-cracks-or-building-stronger-systems-together-financial-crime-context","Papering over cracks or building stronger systems together? Financial crime in the context of covid-19",2151,"This article is the Basel Institute’s contribution to the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fglobalforumljd.com\u002Fwhats-new\u002Fglobal-forum-law-justice-and-development-review-legal-experiences-and-global-practices\">Global Forum on Law, Justice and Development Review of Legal Experiences and Global Practices Relating to COVID-19\u003C\u002Fa>, published in December 2021. The Global Forum is an initiative of The World Bank. The contribution was submitted in July 2020; the version below contains minor updates to hyperlinks.\n\nIt explores how covid-19 has exposed cracks and flaws in the systems designed to protect communities from corruption and has accelerated existing trends in financial crime. The next systemic disruption may come from another pandemic, climate change or perhaps biological or cyber attacks. Whatever the future holds, it is clear that financial crime systems must become more resilient if they are to protect us. \n\nThe article notes that the world has an opportunity to reflect meaningfully on the problems and build stronger, more efficient and effective systems against financial crime. It covers three areas:\n\n\n- Technology, and how technology upgrades in law enforcement and criminal justice proceedings are necessary but not sufficient\n- Streamlining and speeding up procedures in cases of financial crime, such as mutual legal assistance \n- Citizen engagement in the fight against financial crime, including mobilising citizens by using recovered proceeds of corruption and crime to fund essential healthcare services.\n",[405,488,21,489,269],"Collective Action","Public Finance Management",[36],"2021-12-20","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F8e820908-5ca1-4e36-bee9-aea6fbd4b1e3?width=600&height=840","Basel Institute on Governance",[],[496],{"url":497,"caption":498},"https:\u002F\u002Fglobalforumljd.com\u002Fwhats-new\u002Fglobal-forum-law-justice-and-development-review-legal-experiences-and-global-practices"," View the GFLJD Review of Legal Experiences and Global Practices Relating to COVID-19",[],[],[],[503],1791,[441,488,21,489,302],[15],"2022-04-27T11:53:24.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fpapering-over-cracks-or-building-stronger-systems-together-financial-crime-context",1780676599269]