Our ImpactAs an independent information provider, Global Integrity's data and reports are used routinely by a range of actors for analysis and to inform decisions and actions taken by governments, civil society groups, private sector actors, and journalists concerned about governance and corruption issues. Our information empowers decision makers by leveraging evidence-based strategy towards actionable and measurable reforms.For example: Global Integrity country assessments play an important role (along with many other indicators and data sources) in shaping the World Bank's Country Policy and Institutional Assessments (CPIA) process. These are internal World Bank staff assessments compiled on an annual basis for countries across multiple socio-economic dimensions. CPIA ratings significantly influence the World Bank's International Development Association (IDA) loan allocations. Eighty-one countries are currently eligible to borrow from IDA; those countries are home to 2.5 billion people, half of the total population of the developing world, most of which, an estimated 1.5 billion, survive on incomes of US$2 or less a day. In fiscal 2006, IDA commitments totaled US$9.5 billion, most of which is interest-free. Seventy percent of the countries making up the 2006 Global Integrity Report were IDA countries. The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), a U.S. Government corporation which selects countries for economic growth and poverty reduction programs based on their commitment to good governance, has drawn heavily upon Global Integrity data and assessments and now relies on the Global Integrity Index as an official source of supplementary information for selecting countries eligible for MCC funding. MCC has used the Global Integrity reports as a tool for diagnosing policy performance and has found that the indicators contained in these reports are highly comprehensible and comparable across countries. Global Integrity's assessments have also proven critical in the design of MCC's Threshold Programs, which support policy reform in developing countries, particularly in anti-corruption programs. Civil society groups at the grassroots level also appreciate the scope and breadth of our work and the leverage it provides them when advocating for reform. G. Jasper Cummeh, program director for the Center for Transparency and Accountability in Liberia (CENTAL), observes that, "Global Integrity's methodology presents an opportunity for introspection for Liberia to help us chart a new course towards improved governance. The depth of Global Integrity's work emboldens CENTAL and other civil society groups to confront our government with compelling evidence on the need for governance reform. Global Integrity's work is a clarion call for urgent action." Please let us know how Global Integrity's reports are impacting and informing your work!
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