#LearningwithIntegrity: Reflections on Global Integrity’s closure

#LearningwithIntegrity: Reflections on Global Integrity’s closure    Initially, I planned to share hard-learned lessons related to Global Integrity’s closure so others could avoid similar mistakes. It was a very long list. I’ve since realized as a sector we are more adept at identifying weaknesses than imagining new possibilities. As Global Integrity navigated a financial crisis…

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How to Reduce Corruption: Reflections, including from the Paris Integrity Forum

How do we – organizations and individuals working to strengthen transparency, accountability, and participation – more effectively fight corruption? For many of us, this is perhaps the perennial question. In recent decades, we’ve seen that there are many different ways of doing ‘something’ about corruption, with anti-corruption practitioners and social movements trying a diverse set…

2017: What we did, what difference it made, and what we learned

February 22, 2018 Alan Hudson, Executive Director 2017 was a challenging year for champions of open governance, including for those of us enduring at close quarters the democratic reversals and increasingly closed governance of a Trump-led US administration. Political transitions and turbulence around the world have posed challenges to the open governance agenda, including in several…

Learning and Power: Or, whose learning and adaptation counts?

Alan Hudson, Executive Director December 5, 2017 Learning and adaptation are high on the governance and development agenda (see for instance the World Bank’s World Development Reports for 2017 and this video for the 2018 Report). Our strategy at Global Integrity is based around the hypothesis that learning-centered and adaptive approaches can play an important role in…