This research case study describes how a pilot behavioural anti-corruption intervention succeeded in reducing “gift giving” in a Tanzanian hospital. It targeted deeply ingrained social norms while also leveraging the social networks of key staff members.
Claudia Baez Camargo, Head of Public Governance, and Jacopo Costa, Senior Research Fellow, will speak at the 5th session of the Seminar Series on Corruption and Impunity. The series is sponsored by the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) at Columbia University and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM Mexico).
The virtual event will cover:
This presentation by Claudia Baez Camargo, Head of Public Governance at the Basel Institute on Governance, explains the latest evidence on informality and its role in preventing and combating corruption.
Her presentation is based on research conducted in East and Central Africa for the UK-funded Global Integrity-Anti Corruption Evidence Programme (GI-ACE).
This Knowledge Partner session at the 2021 OECD Global Anti-Corruption & Integrity Forum explored how practitioners could tailor approaches to strengthen integrity during an emergency response to counter recurrent social norms and informal practices.
Claudia Baez Camargo, Head of Public Governance at the Basel Institute on Governance, moderated a panel of experts in health, anti-corruption and behavioural research:
Why do people poach, trade and buy protected wildlife – and what might change that behaviour? This virtual panel discussion focused on how behavioural approaches can and must complement interventions tackling illegal wildlife trade (IWT) and other environment crimes.
It was part of the Corrupting the Environment webinar series of the Basel Institute on Governance and the OECD.
Frédéric Boehm, Economist/Policy Analyst at the OECD, moderated the panel featuring:
Can social norm and behaviour change approaches help to reduce corruption related to illegal wildlife trade (IWT)? Very possibly. SNBC initiatives have been shown to help combat diverse corruption problems, although for those related to IWT and other areas of conservation and natural resource management, the evidence for doing so is sparse.
Hosted by the Basel Institute on Governance as part of the Targeting Natural Resource Corruption (TNRC) Learning Series, this webinar addressed three learning questions:
Corruption risk assessments in a law enforcement context seek to map what and how corruption risks could undermine investigations and prosecutions of serious crimes like illegal wildlife trade. But how do you answer why those corruption risks arise in the first place?
Understanding this is key to developing corruption risk mitigation measures that are not just technically sound but politically feasible.
As part of a collaboration with the Targeting Natural Resource Corruption (TNRC) project, the Basel Institute on Governance undertook political economy analyses in three countries in Latin America and Africa.
A delegation from the Basel Institute will attend the International Anti-Corruption Conference (#IACC2022) in Washington DC on 6–10 December 2022.
We will be distributing some of our recent publications and are looking forward to meeting our friends, partners and hopefully future partners in anti-corruption.
Please see this summary of plenary sessions and panels we are leading or involved in, plus details of how to meet us there.