PublicationsThe U4 Blog

U4 Brief

Mainstreaming anti-corruption into sectors: Practices in U4 partner agencies

Integrating anti-corruption measures into sector work – known as mainstreaming – receives increased attention from the development community. The benefits of mainstreaming are to consider sector characteristics, produce concrete results, and overcoming political resistance. The challenges include sustainability, staff time and capacities, and the risk of losing sight of broader governance problems. Interviews and an exploratory survey show that U4 partner agencies are integrating anti-corruption perspectives into sector work through different instruments. While they are investing in building internal capacities, further efforts are required to support complementary approaches and strengthen evidence of results.

11 February 2014
Read onlineDownload PDF
Mainstreaming anti-corruption into sectors: Practices in U4 partner agencies

Cite this publication


Boehm, F. (2014) Mainstreaming anti-corruption into sectors: Practices in U4 partner agencies. Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Brief 2014:3) 4 p.

Read onlineDownload PDF
Frédéric Boehm

Disclaimer


All views in this text are the author(s)’, and may differ from the U4 partner agencies’ policies.

This work is licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Photo