THE CORRUPTION IN
FRAGILE STATES BLOG

Women don’t participate in corrupt acts as frequently as men. Our authors look to Jordan for gender-focused anti-corruption lessons.

By Dhaval Kothari, Corruption, Justice and Legitimacy Program We have spent the past several months deciphering how social norms can most...

By Dhaval Kothari Since I started working with the Corruption, Justice and Legitimacy Program (CJL), I have learned that it is not easy...

By Roberto Laver Having grown up in Argentina, with its consistently high levels of societal corruption, I am quite familiar with the...

By Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church In late 2019, I travelled to Kampala to work with the DFID and EU supported Strengthening Uganda’s...

By Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church Visualize this: you walk into a meeting in a government ministry office and one of the officials is wearing...

By Alexandra De Filippo, Humma Sheikh Leveraging entertaining media for educational purposes — a.k.a. edutainment — has been long...

By Cori Simmons From traditional anti-corruption initiatives to social accountability programs, so much of our field’s practice is...

By Dhaval Kothari Social norms have risen significantly in profile amongst those working on behavior change related to gender, female...

By Cori Simmons In peacebuilding or development, practitioners and scholars alike hear an all-too-common (but important!) refrain:...

By Matthew Muspratt As anti-corruption advocates dial in to virtual meetings and COVID-19 wipes clean the slate of forthcoming...

By Elizabeth Robinson Corruption is often viewed by bureaucrats as a structural issue, requiring policy reforms and law enforcement from...

By Diana Chigas and Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church One of the consistent challenges that we have experienced when first introducing the topic...

By Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church and Diana Chigas Did you know … … that social norms can act as the brake to sustainable behavior change? …...

By Phyllis Dininio Transnational organized crime has expanded dramatically in size and scope in the 21st century and now poses threats to...

By Diana Chigas and Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church As OECD Knowledge Partners, we originally presented these ideas at the 2019 OECD Integrity...

By Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church & Diana Chigas Social norms exist within a group. They represent mutual expectations, not just common...

By Hope Schaitkin New material on social norms change seems to be appearing every week. It can be hard to keep up with it, let alone...

By Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church and Hope Schaitkin There is increasing interest in understanding the role social norms play (or see here or...

By Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church Understanding success isn’t easy at the best of times in complex environments. But when change is achieved...