Program areas at Global Integrity
Integrity and anti-corruption - our work in this program area aims to strengthen the efforts of domestic and international actors working to craft solutions to governance and corruption related challenges. We work with our partners to improve the quality, use and impact of governance data and help them to develop and apply innovative approaches to engage with complexity and power. In 2022, program highlights include pursuing these goals by producing a new round of our africa Integrity indicators and then transferring management and leadership of that program to our partner based in malawi; leading the Global Integrity anti-corruption evidence program, a multi-project, multi-country, portfolio of research projects about corruption and the international dimensions of those challenges; (continue on schedule o) collaborating with two nigerian organizations to play the role of learning partner for a project focused on improving fiscal governance across seven african countries in the context of the covid pandemic; and working to supplement and strengthen regional and Global collaborations in the fight against kleptocracy by working with five grass-roots organizations from different countries in africa.
Multistakeholder government initiatives - we're working to make msis more effective vehicles for transformative change. We support msi stakeholders - in-country reformers, msis themselves, and donors and ingos - as they engage with, and shape, political dynamics and patterns of incentives in the systems in which they work. This means facilitating partners' efforts to identify and analyze problems, design and test creative strategies for addressing those problems, systematically track progress, and course correct in response to emerging lessons and challenges. We feed the evidence and insights from country-level work into Global conversations on msis, with a view towards helping msis sharpen their learning functions, make the most of their interconnections, and ultimately, (continue on schedule o) strengthen their contribution to improving governance and solving governance-related problems.in 2022, work included world bank's Global partnership for social accountability, in jordan, mongolia and tajikistan; our role managing and coordinating the kuyenda collective of six partner organizations focused on improvements to the education systems in south and east africa; and our work as part of the the roadmap to fight corruption with open data, developed with a number of partners as part of the ogp multi-donor trust fund (mdtf) program on advancing ogp's thematic priorities to help open government reformers to advance ogp commitments to fight corruption using data.
Opengov hub - through Global Integrity's leadership of the open gov hub, which we co founded in 2012 and manage in partnership with development gateway, we aim to increase the impact of the Global open governance movement by facilitating learning, innovation, and collaboration among organizations in this field. The open gov hub brings together over 60 organizations and many additional individual practitioners to share resources and work together in a variety of ways (in addition to hosting an average of 1,000 visitors/month). In 2022, we focused on stabilizing the enterprise from the impact of the pandemic on working spaces and expanded our remote and hybrid offerings to members of the open gov hub.
Open fiscal governance - starting with problems, and driving towards solutions, we partner with governments and civil society organizations across the world, at national and sub-national levels, to support their efforts to use data about public resources - revenues, allocations, expenditures and results - to understand and shape the institutional and political dynamics that are at the heart of sectoral and service delivery challenges. Through doing this work, we also generate evidence and insights about how the data landscape might be improved, about the effectiveness of different strategies for opening fiscal governance, and about the ways in which efforts to use fiscal data to address service delivery challenges can best be supported. We use this evidence to inform the evolution of the fiscal governance agenda. Highlights in 2022 included the young africa works program where Global Integrity generated and shared evidence and insights to find solutions to the youth employment challenge and to reduce poverty in africa, specifically rwanda, ghana, senegal, ethiopia, nigeria, and uganda.