100 Days of Listening and Learning – What I heard I had the privilege of spending my first few weeks on the job working from the Open Gov Hub in Washington, DC. I benefited immensely from both the planned and unplanned conversations with partners and other ‘Hubbers’ while waiting for my turn at the coffee…
Interconnecting the various important efforts to combat kleptocracy – from research-generated evidence, to local civil society work, to the initiatives of international organizations and government actions such as sanctions – is critical so that strategies to tackle kleptocracy can effectively benefit people living in ordinary circumstances around the world. So what can be done to…
How do we practice adaptive learning and locally led development in our work? The recently concluded Building Bridges for Stronger Systems project (funded by Open Society Foundations – OSF) is an insightful example of putting these Global Integrity values into action. Our partners – Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition (GACC), Transparency International Bosnia & Herzegovina (TI-BIH), and…
Blog by: Max Levites | Report by: Elsa Peraldi The fight against kleptocracy gained a massive boost in the last year, in no small part thanks to the Biden administration’s new strategy to combat global corruption and deny kleptocrats the opportunity to use the American and global financial systems to hide their illicit gains. Russia’s…
Author: Izabela Chmielewska Unlocking Corruption: Why did we host this event? On December 8th, 2021 we held a joint pre-summit event with the Open Government Partnership (OGP) centered around Unlocking Corruption: Frontline Perspectives on Locally Led Solutions. The recently concluded Summit for Democracy and the OGP Global Summit this month created ripe ground to convene…
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…