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HOW TO MITIGATE CORRUPTION RISKS IN AID FLOWS?

15 June 2015 in Aid

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.”

17 January 2013 in Access to information

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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