Over the last dozen years The Partnership for Transparency Fund has support with money and expert advice more than 200 projects across the developing world to reduce corruption. Now, in a brand new book, Landell-Mills reviews the record: he highlights the civil society organizations that are making a real ......
A Dramatic Year for Anti-Corruption in the Philippines
The Philippines have long been plagued by endemic corruption, including graft, bribery, and extortion. A lacking and complex regulatory system and low institutional oversight to enforce existing regulations contribute to an environment of widespread corruption. Insufficient campaign finance laws and lobbying ......
Frank Vogl, PTF Co-Founder and Board Vice Chair, Publishes New Book Looking Inside the Global Anti-Corruption Movement
Frank Vogl, co-founder of both Transparency International and the Partnership for Transparency Fund has published Waging War on Corruption: Inside the Movement Fighting the Abuse of Power. At PTF we are honored to have the book dedicated to our organization along with Transparency International ......
PTF Enters Contract With Asian Development Bank to Strengthen Bhutan’s Anti-Corruption Commission
PTF was selected by the Asian Development Bank to work with Bhutan's Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). The project is aimed at enhancing the institutional capacity of the ACC focusing on the areas of change management, public communications, human resources management, investigation, and corruption ......
New AusAID Grant to Bolster PTF Anti-Corruption Knowledge Sharing in the Philippines
The Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) has initiated a grant of $200,000 to PTF to broaden the impact of PTF’s anti-corruption work in the Philippines. Since 2003 PTF has been supporting the anti-corruption work of CSOs in the country. To date, working in close partnership with the Coalition Against…...
In Search of Transparency: new SEC rules expose financial details of international oil and mineral industries
On August 22nd, the U.S. Securities and Exchanges Committee approved Section 1504, or the Cardin-Lugar provision of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. This legislation was initially passed in 2010, but the SEC only now agreed to take action on this provision. Under the new rules this…...
A Corruption-Free Olympics?
The Olympic Games represent a time and place for national pride, for celebrating achievement and extraordinary athletic ability, and for international unity. However, beyond the pomp and circumstance, the Olympics have a less glamorous underbelly. While American media has focused on the controversy of ......
