TNRC Blog
What Shapes Anti-Corruption Success and Failure in Renewable Resource Sectors?
This blog post shares key learning from new evidence research conducted by the U4 research team focused on three different country cases.
Transparency, Open Data, and Participation: Tools for Environmentally Responsible Infrastructure
Infrastructure planning is a complex and costly process involving diverse stakeholders with competing interests.
Can Strengthening Internal Controls Prevent Corruption Behind Natural Resource Crimes?
This blog post captures insights from a TNRC Learning Series webinar on the use of internal controls to prevent the corruption that often accompanies natural resource crimes.
Harnessing Big Data to Uncover Corruption in the Forestry Sector
How can big data help address corruption in the forestry sector? New research undertaken by data analysts and financial flows experts at TRAFFIC and the Basel Institute on Governance under the Targeting Natural Resource Corruption project is testing new methods for automating data collection and analysis techniques used in other sectors to identify corrupt actors from the point of allocation of forest access rights.
TNRC Project-based Learning Blog Part III: Six Things Donors Should Know about Anti-Corruption in Conservation Projects
In addition to the anti-corruption knowledge assembled in TNRC’s Knowledge Hub, we have an exciting portfolio of activities around the world comprised of pilot projects and Associate Awards.
TNRC Project-based Learning Blog Part II: Conservation Practitioner Perspectives on “Corruption” and “Analysis"
In addition to the anti-corruption knowledge assembled in TNRC’s Knowledge Hub, we have an exciting portfolio of activities around the world comprised of pilot projects and Associate Awards.
TNRC Project-based Learning Blog Part I: Supporting the Implementers of TNRC’s Pilots and Associate Awards
In addition to the anti-corruption knowledge assembled in TNRC’s Knowledge Hub, we have an exciting portfolio of activities around the world comprised of pilot projects and Associate Awards.
Using political economy analysis to support corruption risk assessments that strengthen law enforcement against wildlife crime
This blog post captures expert insights and responses to practitioner questions raised in a TNRC Learning Series webinar on Using political economy analysis to support corruption risk assessments that strengthen law enforcement against wildlife crime, hosted by the Basel Institute on Governance.
Trade Discrepancy Analysis: A Tool to Identify Environmental Corruption and Associated Illicit Financial Flows
This virtual panel hosted by the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC) presented new research findings from an examination of trade data on timber from Vietnam, and discussed the implications and potential applications of this and similar research.
Lessons from the field: Assessing corruption risks that undermine law enforcement action against natural resource crimes
This blog post captures expert insights and responses to practitioner questions raised in a webinar on assessing corruption risks that undermine law enforcement action against natural resource crimes.
The anti-corruption potential of beneficial ownership transparency and implications for natural resources
This virtual panel hosted by the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC) highlighted the rapidly changing landscape around beneficial ownership regulations and the importance of beneficial ownership information for improving conservation outcomes.
Framing and implementing effective assessments of corruption for conservation interventions
This webinar hosted by the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre shared research insights and practical experiences on how to get the most out of corruption risk assessment opportunities that arise in the project cycle.
The impacts of infrastructure sector corruption on conservation: Implications for programming
Infrastructure is key to national economic development strategies and provides necessary human services.
Commodity supply chain traceability initiatives and their anti-corruption potential
This blog post captures key learning from a TNRC Learning Series Webinar on 18 June 2021 on commodity supply chain traceability initiatives and their anti-corruption potential.
Sand Mafias: Environmental Harm, Corruption and Economic Impacts
This post captures insights from a TNRC virtual panel on June 14, 2021 in which speakers from Kenya and India discussed an understudied, yet environmentally devastating trend: the unsustainable mining of river sand, facilitated by corruption, that feeds the global construction boom while destroying habitats and livelihoods and fueling conflict.
Conservation, Corruption, and Civic Space
This blog post captures key learning from a TNRC Virtual Panel on 25 May 2021 on Conservation, Corruption, and Civic Space.
Corruption and community-based conservation: Lessons and opportunities
This blog post captures key learning from a TNRC Learning Series Webinar on 21 May 2021 on Corruption & community-based conservation: Lessons and opportunities.
Lessons from research: Using trade data to expose illicit financial flows and corruption in natural resource commodities, and broader applications
Watch the recording: This TNRC event presented new research findings from an examination of trade data on timber from Peru, and discussed the implications and potential applications of this and similar research.
Corruption in the wild plants supply chain: Addressing the social, financial, and environmental cost
This blog post captures expert insights and responses to questions raised in a TNRC Learning Series Webinar on Corruption in the wild plants supply chain: Addressing the social, financial and environmental costs.
Definitions matter: What do we mean when we talk about corruption in conservation, and what difference does it make?
Over the first two years of the TNRC project, working at the nexus of conservation practice and anti-corruption learning has revealed insights about these respective professional fields.
Corruption in the Environment: New Perspectives
This blog post shares key takeaways from a March 2021 panel that brought together anti-corruption experts and conservation practitioners to discuss new research on the dynamics of corruption in natural resource management and to share perspectives on the challenges of integrating effective responses to corruption into the stewardship of our remaining natural resources.
Uncovering corruption: The role of investigative journalism in combatting environmental crime and prompting accountability
Investigative journalists are often the first to uncover corruption in locations with limited enforcement or low rule of law.
The COVID-19 pandemic, corruption, and the socio-economic impacts on local communities
Governments are today faced with an unprecedented public health emergency that has forced them to close borders and lock down cities and communities.
How Data and Technology Can Help Address Corruption in IUU fishing
This post and event recording captures insights on the promise and problems of using data and technology to address corruption in illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
Understanding how corruption is accelerating illegal logging and deforestation during the COVID-19 pandemic
This post captures insights on the connections between corruption and the accelerating illegal logging and deforestation occurring during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Whistleblower protection: A tool for stopping corruption that threatens the world’s forests, fisheries and wildlife
This post captures expert insights and responds to audience questions from a TNRC Learning Series Webinar on 8 September 2020 on the role of whistleblowers and whistleblower protections in stopping corruption that threatens the world’s forests, fisheries and wildlife.
Understanding crime convergence to better target natural resource corruption
This post captures insights on crime convergence and natural resource corruption from a panel convened at a World Bank Global Wildlife Program and International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime (ICCWC) Forum on 27 January 2020 in Washington, DC.
How can I integrate Thinking & Working Politically into my day-to-day programming on natural resource management?
This blog post captures key learning from an April 2020 TNRC Learning Series webinar with Heather Marquette.
Illegal wildlife markets, zoonotic disease transfer and corruption—Connections and what the global community must do about it
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is greater international willingness to address illegal wildlife markets, especially those involving live animals.
Political Ecology in Anti-Corruption Efforts and Practice Part II: Implementing a Political Ecology Approach
This blog post is the second in a two-part series.
Connections between IUU fishing and corruption — and how the global community can combat them
This post captures insights on the connections between global illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, the role of corruption in facilitating IUU fishing and the criminality and human rights abuses often associated with it.
Female Rangers and Anti-Poaching Strategies to Stem Corruption
This TNRC event, hosted by TraCCC on September 16, explored case studies of the first three all-female anti-poaching units in Africa who have shown success in addressing corruption, decreasing poaching and enhancing security.
Changing Corrupt Behaviors through an INTEGRITY Framework
This blog post captures key learning from a December 2019 TNRC Learning Series webinar by Gayle Burgess.
