I arrived in India on February 1, 2020 to begin the final steps of my daughter’s adoption proceedings. While COVID was not yet making front page headlines anywhere in the world, I was already seeing Hindi-language public health posters when I landed in Patna airport, the capital of Bihar. By early March, the country had…
Africa Integrity Indicators 2021 After nine months of research, the provisional data for the 9th round of the Africa Integrity Indicators is ready for feedback. As with previous rounds, we make the provisional data publicly available so that everyone can provide feedback on the research before the final data is published in July. The data,…
The process leading from producing data to using data towards improved development results is both technical and political. Together with Transparency and Accountability Initiative funder collaborative (TAI), Global Integrity produced a report that focuses on the complexities of political and technical dynamics to identify progress made and remaining opportunities and challenges to advance the use…
Authors: Veronica Dickson La Rotta & Izabela Chmielewska Never waste a good crisis: a maxim bolstered by a year of a global pandemic and advocacy for racial equity. Moments of political upheaval and societal distress, destabilizing though they may be, have historically been the key to opening windows of opportunity for civil society reformers to…
It would be wrong to say I was pleased when I first came across Isabel Wilkerson’s book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. In the bestseller published late last year, Wilkerson uses, quite radically, caste as a framework to analyse the reality of racial discrimination in the US. There cannot be anything pleasing about something…
Integrity: i) The quality of being honest and having strong moral principles, and ii) The quality of being whole and complete (The Cambridge Dictionary) In my six years as Executive Director of Global Integrity, we have not spent much time explicitly reflecting on our name. I’d always assumed that we inherited it, having spun off…