U4 REPORT November 2013: 1 Collective donor responses: Examining donor responses to corruption cases in Afghanistan, Tanzania and Zambia Maja de Vibe Nils Taxell Paul Beggan Peter Bofin U4 is a web-based resource centre for development practitioners who wish to effectively address corruption challenges in their work. U4 is operated by the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) – an independent centre for research on international development and policy – and is funded by AusAID (Australia), BTC (Belgium), CIDA (Canada), DFID (UK), GIZ (Germany), Norad (Norway), Sida (Sweden) and The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. All views expressed in this Issue are those of the author(s), and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the U4 Partner Agencies or CMI/ U4. Copyright 2013 - CMI/U4 Collective donor responses: Examining donor responses to corruption cases in Afghanistan, Tanzania and Zambia Maja de Vibe Nils Taxell Paul Beggan Peter Bofin U4 Report October 2013 No 1 ! ! 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A big thanks goes to Kjetil Hansen at the OECD for his tireless support and valuable contributions. We would like to thank the many people who spared time to be interviewed for the country case studies. Your insights and comments provided the most important source of information for the report. We would like to give a special thanks to Karen Hussmann, who has provided invaluable comments and contributions throughout the writing process. Thanks also go to Geir Sundet and Phyllis Cox for their contributions. We would like to acknowledge the support provided by the peer reviewers for the country case studies; Angela Spilsbury, Brian Cooksey and Jack Titsworth. Finally we would like to give thanks to the general peer reviewers; Liz Hart, Lise Stendsrud and Anna Persson. Authors Maja de Vibe is the Senior Integrity and Governance Advisor at Statkraft. From 2011 to 2013 she managed a portfolio of anti-corruption work at the International Law and Policy Institute (ILPI) in Oslo, as their Programme Director for Governance and Anti-corruption. She has worked for 10 years in Africa, including as a government official for the British Government, as a long-term advisor to an African government and as a consultant in a private firm. Nils Taxell is a political scientist and development practitioner working at the Chr. Michelsen Institute as a Senior Advisor for the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre. Taxell undertakes operational research, conducts trainings, and provides policy advice to aid donors and practitioners on a wide range of anti-corruption issues, including on people’s engagement, the interface between corruption and aid, fragile states and the United Nations Convention against Corruption. For more information please see: http://www.u4.no/info/contact-us/staff/nils-taxell/. Paul Beggan is a Governance and Anti-Corruption consultant specialising in the design, monitoring and evaluation of anti-corruption programmes. He is currently the Lead Anti-Corruption Consultant with the DFID Justice for All Programme (J4A) in Nigeria. Peter Bofin currently works with an NGO as an adviser on Extractive Industries for Tanzania and Kenya. Prior to that, he worked as a freelance analyst serving risk analysis firms, specialist publications and investors. Parallel to this he has worked as a consultant to donors, NGOs and research institutes on issues of accountability often with a focus on natural resource management. ! ! ! ! ! iv Collective donor responses: Examining donor responses to U4 Report 2013:1 www.U4.no corruption cases in Afghanistan, Tanzania and Zambia Acronyms and abbreviations AC Anti-Corruption ACC Anti-Corruption Commission