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Our resources comprise downloadable versions of CurbingCorruption’s SFRA approach, of each of the the sector-by-sector experience reviews, and the sector bibliographies

Formulating better anti-corruption strategies using SFRA

CurbingCorruption’s guidance has recently been updated. The following two papers are now published:

Pyman and Heywood 2020 Practical strategies for corruption reduction: The Sector Focus and Reformulation Approach SFRA

This paper describes a new approach to assist politicians, leaders and managers develop better strategies to reduce corruption. The Sector Focus & Reformulation Approach, or SFRA, is applicable in both developed and developing country environments. The situation that SFRA responds to is this: "I am responsible for delivering policies/services/products. My team and I know the issues, the politics and the context, but we know little about reducing the damaging impact of corruption on our operations. Help us to understand how we should analyse the problem, what reform approaches to consider, and how we then formulate a good strategy."

Heywood and Pyman 2020 Rethinking corruption reform: Strategy Scale and Substance

In this paper we move from rethinking corruption to ‘rethinking corruption reform’. We start by challenging the current infantilisation of the word ‘strategy’ through an analysis of how good strategy is defined, taught and formulated in the domains of the military, business and politics. We examine the different scales at which anti-corruption initiatives take place, distinguishing three levels where the challenge, and therefore the type of strategy, will differ: international, national and tactical scale change. Whilst national scale change has received the most attention, the vast majority of reform initiatives fall into the tactical scale category. We explore how reformers can better develop the substance of their strategy. We think of this as being the core content of the strategy – the insight or diagnosis involved that allows choices to be made and options discarded – as distinct from the process to be followed in developing a strategy or the other components of formal strategy such as governance, management, coordination or reporting. We consider the substance of a strategy to comprise three distinct but interlinked activities: making an insightful diagnosis, clarifying and reformulating the purpose and the objectives, then formulating an actionable reform approach that guides the reformers, including choosing which specific reform measures will be preferred. We give examples from reform experience of each of the activities.

Sector by Sector anti-corruption experience

Each sector review is copied off the website in its entirety, tidied up, and saved here as a pdf document. So you can read it at your leisure or print it. New versions are uploaded regularly, so they incorporate recent contributions.

Construction, Public Works & Infrastructure review as at 7-10-2018

Download as at 7-10-2018

Education Sector review as at 7-10-2018

Fisheries Sector review as at 7-10-2018

Health Sector review as at 7-10-2018

Higher Education review as at 7-10-2018

Land Sector review as at 7-10-2018

Police Services sector review as at 7-10-2018

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Prison Service sector review as at 7-10-2018

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Private Sector review as at 7-10-2018

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Shipping Sector review as at 7-10-2018

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Sub-National Government sector review as at 7-10-2018

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Presentations and talks

Mark Pyman: Sectors as the primary locus for corruption reform. April 2019

A slide talk by Mark Pyman, detailing the purpose and benefits of tackling corruption sector by sector. This talk was given in April 2019 to Ghanaian civil society in Accra, to Communities of Practice within the World Bank, and to an open audience at the Open Gov Hub in Washington DC.

Sector Bibliographies

It can be useful for readers to be able to easily see the sources being quoted. Accordingly, a copy of the bibliography for each sector and for each Step of the Five-Step Guidance are duplicated here as pdf documents.

Construction, Public works and infrastructure

Education

Fisheries

Higher Education

Land

Police Services

Prison services

Private Sector

Shipping

Sub National Government

Mark Pyman publications

Curbing Corruption topics – Here

Defence & Security corruption reduction – Here

Afghanistan and MEC – Here

Others – Here

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