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Anti-Corruption Guide for Payment for Ecosystem Services

Author/Contact:

J. Preston Whitt

TNRC Anti-Corruption Advisor and Research Coordinator

preston_whitt@wwfus.org

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Resource description:

Sustainable livelihood projects can create significant opportunities for illicit private gains, along with the power and enabling conditions to pursue those gains. In other words, these projects are subject to corruption risks that may partially or completely sabotage the project or, in the worse cases, contribute to further social and environmental damage. Project designers and managers need to be cognizant of the corruption risks and build appropriate and feasible anti-corruption responses into their project theories of change. This guidance offers some results chains, tools, and other resources to help those practitioners do just that.

Global goals:

  • 6. Clean water and sanitation

  • 14. Life below water

  • 15. Life on land

  • 16. Peace and justice and strong institutions

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  • Public/open source

Quality assurance:

  • Professional references
  • Own QA and testing