This article presents comparative evidence about the relevance of behavioural drivers in relation to petty corruption three East African countries. It discusses potential incorporate insights into anti-corruption policy-making. Persistently high levels bureaucratic prevail many countries across continent. along with limited effectiveness conventional prescriptions call for a contextualised understanding multiple factors determining corruption-related decision-making. Adopting lens involves...

The article analyses drivers and determinants of illicit wildlife trade (IWT), targeting those factors that support the participation individuals in poaching transportation goods. These are often explained economic institutional terms. Recently, scholars have started to recognise importance socio-cultural behavioural influencing individual propensity engage trafficking. goal is clarifying how may spur these phenomena. research provides further understanding on why trafficking happens by...

Politics matters for the success of anti-corruption and asset recovery efforts. This Working Paper: discusses political governance factors that affect performance justice system in relation to recovery; provides guidance on assessing these systematically, including through a novel Assessment Monitoring Framework; reveals how use assessments develop adaptive strategies strengthen chain line with changing contexts. It fills an important gap by enabling systematic assessment monitoring...

This policy brief summarises the main findings and lessons learned from research on corruption, social norms behaviours in Tanzania. While show that petty corruption is prevalent results inequitable public service delivery, they also inform citizen officials’ attitudes towards are shifting as a result of changes political environment.
 The evidence furthermore suggests effectiveness conventional anti-corruption approaches may be enhanced by incorporating behavioural insights about...

This Policy Brief summarises the main findings and lessons learned from a research on corruption, social norms behaviours in Rwanda. The show that, although Rwanda has successfully curbed favouritism continues to be used secure preferential access public health services.
 While Rwandan experience illustrates how behavioural insights can effectively complement conventional anti-corruption approaches, further entry areas for deepening interventions are also identified.

As part of a multi-disciplinary programme work focused on intelligence-led action against financial crime in illegal wildlife trade (IWT), the Public Governance division Basel Institute is leading research and community engagement activities East Africa.
 The objective to contribute towards prevention combating IWT by developing better understanding context-specific drivers trafficking role informal social networks their associated corrupt practices facilitating such illicit...

This Working Paper is a key output of the Basel Institute's Green Corruption programme, multi-disciplinary engagement that targets environmental degradation through tested anti-corruption, asset recovery and governance methods. The research funded by PMI Impact as part wider project on intelligence-led financial crime in illegal wildlife trade (IWT).
 fight against trafficking global one. Wildlife constitutes fourth-largest form illicit flow world. Its prevalence often explained...

Behaviour change interventions aimed at reducing the social acceptability of wildlife trafficking are an important part efforts to prevent crime. This policy brief summarises lessons learned about how develop and frame effective messages in context these interventions, based on field work conducted Uganda. 
 A key first step is narrowly identify right target audience. While a general public awareness campaign may have its merits, it be more focus those identified as most vulnerable...

This Working Paper presents findings from a research project that sought to better understand decision-making processes on the return of illegally obtained assets using examples past cases returning had been stolen Kazakhstan, Peru and Philippines. While previous papers subject end-use returned were based third-party desk research, feeding into this working paper is first-hand accounts collected through semi-structured interviews with key decision makers involved in these concerned...

This paper compares social network dynamics and related petty corrupt practices in East Africa. It highlights how the properties of structural functional networks could serve as entry points for anti-corruption interventions.
 With a focus on health sector Rwanda, Tanzania Uganda, empirical findings from this research corroborate role perpetuating collective corruption, including bribery, favouritism gift-giving.
 The makes case designing novel type behavioural intervention,...

This policy brief summarises the main findings from extensive field research on drivers, facilitators and strategies of wildlife trafficking in Uganda. It translates insights described Working Paper 33: A worm’s-eye view Uganda into recommendations for practitioners policymakers. The shows that individuals engaging first stages trading route are driven predominantly by aspirations wealth to overcome socio-economic hardships. is reinforced stereotypes depict trade as benign legitimate. also...