Mapping the UK’s approach to tackling corruption and illicit financial flows
The UK has an important role to play in international efforts to tackle corruption in developing countries – but the government’s domestic approach and the rapidly-changing nature of the threat are among six potential future ‘lines of enquiry’ identified in this information note.
Our approach
This information note focuses on the period since the 2016 summit and aims to map the work that has been undertaken by the government to tackle corruption and illicit financial flows as they impact on developing countries.
It was commissioned by the International Development Committee to help inform its inquiry looking at UK government support for SDG 16. It provides a concise description of the UK government’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) and ODA-related work on anti-corruption and related illicit financial flows for the benefit of developing countries. We set out to:
- Map the UK government’s various national (in-country, bilateral), international and domestic efforts to tackle corruption and illicit financial flows as it pertains to developing countries.
- Provide factual information on key trends and highlight risks that warrant future scrutiny.
- Take the UK’s portfolio of bilateral anti-corruption activity in Ghana as a snapshot case study to give an example of UK government work at a national level.
- Provide suggestions and recommended lines of inquiry for the International Development Committee on where there are areas of complexity in the field – whether they be technical, operational or otherwise – that warrant further consideration.
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- Published: 19 Mar 2020