A World Bank workshop, with participation from the European Commission, is underway in Washington DC to analyse the effectiveness of anti-corruption agencies.
Fighting corruption has become a mainstay of international development support. Every year millions of euros are spent understanding and tackling corruption and poor governance.
In an attempt to explore the effectiveness of anti-corruption authorities, participants from developed and developing countries have been invited to a special workshop.
The two-day gathering, which runs from the 24-25 March, is part of a broader programme of activities, to which the EC is part, that seek to increase awareness of the challenges faced by anti-corruption authorities.
The Washington event is being organised by the World Bank with support from the US Department of State, the European Union (EuropeAid), the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the Belgian Foreign Ministry and the World Bank Public Sector Governance Unit and Stolen Asset Recovery (StAR) Secretariat.
The aim of this action, to be implemented by the World Bank, is to better understand anti-corruption authorities’ effectiveness through a systematic analysis, based on a wide range of regional and context specific cases and employing an empirical-driven framework.
This action is structured around three areas of work:
- Undertaking a preliminary stock-taking of anti-corruption authorities’ effectiveness, accountability and impact, based on both analysis from international development practitioners and developing countries, as well as the literature
- Organising a two-day workshop to discuss and refine these approaches for use by anti-corruption authorities and development partners, and summarise the outcomes in a comprehensive report
- Developing a conceptual framework to undertake a series of case studies employing an initial evaluation methodology, this will result in the identification of performance measures and a more coherent analytical framework for programme design and implementation.
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