International approaches to recording corruption and monitoring intervention outcomes at the national level

Product Description

This report was commissioned by the UK Home Office from the University of Sussex’s Centre for the Study of Corruption. The research looked at how countries record corruption-related data, and how they monitor and evaluate their national anti-corruption strategies. The research was completed in May 2022, with references reviewed and updated in November 2023. Developments in international approaches since that time are not therefore reflected in this report.

Key findings include:

• designing and implementing national anti-corruption strategies, together with how to evaluate their success and how to assess levels of corruption, is a rapidly-developing field
• good practice is more commonly found outside G7 countries than amongst the G7
• the UK already does well in a number of areas and this report highlights a number of opportunities to incorporate and learn from good practice from the other countries reviewed

This report reviews international practice in 2 important areas of anti-corruption work: first, approaches to recording, estimating and proactively detecting corrupt behaviours, and second, approaches to monitoring and evaluation of national anti-corruption strategies. We assessed practices in 15 countries, selected either because they are peer countries to the UK or because they exhibit elements of good practice. All results relate to these countries.