On October 12, Partnership for Transparency hosted its partner Pansy Tun Thein, Executive Director of the Local Resource Centre, an umbrella organization of over a 1,000 CSOs in Myanmar. Pansy shared how civic space has improved in Myanmar and the extensive advocacy and service CSOs have undertaken to ......
Transparency, Anti-Corruption, and Sustainable Development: Is Progress Possible?
On September 18th, the Partnership for Transparency’s Anti-Corruption Forum partnered with Brookings, the IMF, the World Bank, and the IFC to bring high level panelists from a variety of backgrounds to discuss the opportunities and challenges in the fields of transparency, anti-corruption, and sustainable development. Madame Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of…...
World Bank Anti-Corruption Programs; Discussion of Lessons Learned and Future Strategy
On July 5, the 1818 Society hosted a discussion on the World Bank’s anti-corruption policies, lessons learned since the 1996 “Cancer of Corruption” speech, and programmatic plans going forward. The event featured Joel Turkewitz, Lead Public Sector Specialist at the World Bank, and was chaired by Richard Stern ......
Anti-Corruption Forum features Laurence Cockcroft on Corruption in the West
On May 10, the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC) and the Partnership for Transparency’s Anti-Corruption Forum co-hosted an event at George Mason University, featuring Laurence Cockcroft discussing his most recent book Unmasked: Corruption in the West. Cockcroft reflected on the process of writing the book and shared some of…...
Chile’s National e-Procurement Platform Hosts PTF Advisors
Above left to right: Oscar Cabello, Trinidad Inostroza, Donal O’Leary Donal O’Leary, PTF’s Procurement Working Group leader, and Oscar Cabello, a local PTF Advisor in Chile, visited ChileCompra headquarters on March 24th, in Santiago. They had a fruitful meeting with Trinidad Inostroza, Elena Mora and Viviana Mora, respectively ChileCompra’s Directress, Civil Society Coordinator and Observatory Chief. ChileCompra is the national…...
Citizen Action Platform: Amplifying Citizen Voice for Quality Healthcare in Uganda
In many developing countries, quality health care is compromised by a lack of oversight at the local level. Poor pay, difficult living conditions and little supervision create a situation rife for corruption. Life-saving medications go missing, public funds disappear, and patients are forced to pay bribes ......
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