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HOW TO MITIGATE CORRUPTION RISKS IN AID FLOWS?

Corruption is a major threat to public funds – and not just in the developing world. According to a recent report commissioned by the EU anti-fraud agency OLAF, € 901 million should be recovered after proven fraud or corruption in EU funds. One of the greatest concerns of any donor is how to minimise the […]

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“My CEO will tear off my head, if I suggest to him that we implement IATI.”

This text was crossposted from the Open Knowledge Foundation’s blog Open Aid. The author is Claudia Schwegmann. These were the precise words of a senior policy person of a big German NGO when I presented IATI some 18 months ago. In the past, reactions of other NGO representatives have been less drastic but still very clearly […]

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