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Anti-Corruption Conventions in Africa: What Civil Society Can Do to Make Them Work

Part of a regional series on civil society action in anti-corruption conventions, this guide focuses on the two principal anti-corruption conventions in Africa – the African Union (AU) anti-corruption convention and the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC).

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Anti-Corruption Conventions in the Americas: What civil society can do to make them work

Designed to make conventions more accessible to civil society organisations, this easy-to-read guide provides an overview of two anti-corruption conventions in the Americas: the Inter-American Convention Against Corruption and the United Nations Convention Against Corruption. The publication shows how to promote national ratification, implementation and monitoring.

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Anti-Corruption Conventions in the Middle East and North Africa: What Civil Society Can Do to Make Them Work

Part of a regional series on civil society action in anti-corruption conventions, TI published a handbook to help civil society better engage in promoting and monitoring conventions in the Middle East and North Africa.

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Corruption Fighters Toolkit 2001: Civil Society Experiences and Emerging Strategies

The Corruption Fighters Toolkit is an effort to highlight civil society’s potential to create mechanisms of public scrutiny and to demand a more accountable and responsive public administration. The toolkit offers practical tools designed for civil society, drawing attention to collaboration between the public and private sector.

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Corruption Fighters Toolkit 2002-2003: Civil Society Experiences and Emerging Strategies

The Corruption Fighters Toolkit is a practical instrument designed to facilitate the sharing of experiences of civil society activities in the field of anti-corruption. The tool kit offers tools which can be used by civil society to create scrutiny mechanisms and to demand a more transparent public administration.

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Corruption Fighters Toolkit Special Edition 2004 - Teaching Integrity to Youth in 11 Countries

This edition of the toolkit is dedicated to youth anti-corruption education. It includes 11 examples of awareness-raising and youth education from Brazil, Italy, Macau, Colombia, United States of America, Uganda, Cambodia, Georgia, Zambia, Moldova and Argentina. The projects contribute to fostering attitudes that do not tolerate corruption, and to building demand for accountability.

ISBN: 3-88579-126-9

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Curbing corruption in Tsunami relief operations

This book is the result of an Expert Meeting on Corruption Prevention in Tsunami Relief held in 2005. The publication tackles how large amounts of aid to the region fed fears of waste and mismanagement and how international donors and civil society could implement measures to ensure that their efforts are not tainted by corruption.

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Global Corruption Report 2007: Corruption in Judicial Systems

The Global Corruption Report offers an annual, systematic analysis of corruption, reporting on the state of corruption around the globe. The Global Corruption Report 2007 focuses on corruption in judicial systems and includes recommendations for practitioners, actors in the judiciary and civil society, on how to fight corruption in the sector.

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Integrity in Public Procurement - Good practice from A to Z (OECD Report)

What role can civil society play in tackling corruption in public procurement, where governments and state-owned firms buy goods and services from the private sector? According to a recent report from the Organisation for Economic Development and Co-operation (OECD), civil society is a key actor for shedding light on the procurement process and monitoring its integrity. Civil society, as a third, independent party in the public procurement process significantly contributes to its credibility amongst stakeholders and the wider public.
The OECD’s publication - Integrity in public procurement: Good practice from A to Z- portrays numerous practical examples of measures that should be taken into account by governments when embracing anti-corruption strategies in public procurement. The contents of this publication received input from Transparency International’s advisors in public contracting.

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Integrity Pact: a powerful tool for clean bidding

The Integrity Pact is a tool developed by TI to help governments, civil society and business to fight corruption in public contracting. This brochure summarises the main features and functions of Integrity Pacts.

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Policy Note No 02/2009 - Civil Society Participation is Essential for UNCAC Review

Civil society participation is essential to ensure the credibility of the review process that is being proposed for the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC). With discussions underway by Convention signatories about the structure of the process, it is critical that they support and endorse the role of civil society in reviewing UNCAC implementation.

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Status and Challenges of the Implementation of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption

This reports examines the degree to which the State Parties to the IACC have implemented the convention as well as civil society involvement. It also identifies the major challenges lying ahead and proposes strategies to overcome them.

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Stealing the Future: corruption in the classroom - Ten Real World Experiences

Stealing the Future - Corruption in the Classroom presents 10 studies carried out by national chapters in Argentina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Georgia, Mexico, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Sierra Leone and Zambia. The studies assess the extent of corruption in schools, universities and education administration, providing examples of how civil society can help curb corrupt practices.

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Working Paper No 03/2008 Using the OECD Guidelines to Tackle Corporate Corruption

The Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, adopted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), provide a set of corrupt accountability standards that offer great potential for civil society to effectively combat private sector corruption

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