Asia - External Links & Resources
External Links & Resources
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Anti-Corruption Resources
- Anti-Corruption Ring Online (AnCOrR Web) - The information center that offers more than 5,000 selected references to books, journals, papers, reports and other documents, as well as a large number of downloadable resources on corruption and bribery.
- Utstein Anti-Corruption Resource Centre - is organised around two purposes: to guide you to relevant anti-corruption resources, and to inform you about the Utstein partners and their anti-corruption work.
- United Against Corruption (UNICORN) - a global unions anti-corruption network.
- Anti-Corruption Gateway for Europe and Eurasia - offers primary materials and direct links to major information sources for anti-corruption practitioners and analysts engaged in Eastern Europe
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) - is an international organization helping governments tackle the economic, social, and governance challenges of a globalized economy. OECD has assumed a leading role in preventing international bribery and corruption.
- OECD Anti-Corruption Division - The OECD Anti-Corruption Division serves as the focal point within the OECD Secretariat to support the work of the OECD in the fight against bribery and corruption in international business transactions.
- Ethics and Corruption in the Public Sector Integrity and Anti-Corruption Measures in OECD Countries. OECD/PUMA website. PUMA's mission is to help countries review and reform their Ethics Infrastructure (the institutions, systems and mechanisms they have for promoting ethics and countering corruption in the public service) and exchange experience on recent initiatives.
Other Institutions
- Anti-Corruption Gateway for Europe and Eurasia - is a significant entrance way to information about combating corruption. It offers primary materials and direct links to major information sources for anti-corruption practitioners and analysts engaged in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union.
- Anti-Corruption Network for Transition Economies
- Center for Democratic Institutions, Australia - a governance training center that responses to the needs of developing countries in the fields of good governance and democratic institutions.
- Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) - contributes to identifying deficiencies and insufficiencies of national mechanisms against corruption, and to prompting the necessary legislative, institutional and practical reforms in order to better prevent and combat corruption.
- Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), Australia - This organization exposes and minimizes corruption in the New South Wales public sector through investigation, corruption prevention and education.
- Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), Hong Kong was established in 1974 to fight corruption in both the public and the private sectors through investigation, corruption prevention and education.
- Korea Independent Commission Against Corruption (KICAC) , South Korea
- International Criminal Police Organization (ICPO-Interpol)
- National Association of Prosecutor Coordinators
The World Bank
- World Bank (WB) Anti-Corruption Knowledge Center
The Anti-Corruption Knowledge Center has three goals: to provide task managers and interested Bank staff with an understanding of corruption; to devise strategies that help client governments reduce corruption; to provide a regular update on the results of our anti-corruption activities. - World Bank Institute - Governance and Anti-Corruption
Transparency International (TI)
- Transparency International - is a not-for-profit, non-governmental organization committed to countering corruption in international business transactions and, through its national chapters, to curbing corruption at the national level.
- TI Australia
- TI South Asia (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka)
- Center for Social Development, Cambodia (CSD) - a Cambodian NGO, works closely with TI to coordinate anti-corruption strategies.
- TI India
- TI Indonesia
- TI Japan (Japanese version only)
- TI Kazakhstan
- TI South Korea
- TI Malaysia
- TI Nepal
- TI Pakistan
- TI Papua New Guinea
- TI Philippines
- Transparency Thailand
- TI Anti-Corruption Database CORIS
United Nations (UN)
- United Nations Convention Against Corruption
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) - consists of the United Nations International Drug Control Programme and the United Nations Centre for International Crime Prevention, is established to enable the Organization to focus and enhance its capacity to address the interrelated issues of drug control, crime prevention and international terrorism in all its forms. See special ODCCP site on Corruption
- UNODC, Corruption
- UNODC Regional Center for East Asia and Pacific
- UNODC, Afghanistan
- UNODC, India
- United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Reserch Institute (UNICRI)
Centre promotes research and studies new and emerging forms of crime. It assists in the upgrading of national capacities in collecting, analyzing and using criminal justice data through the application of modern information technologies. - United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Management Development and Governance Division, Bureau for Development Policy. - UNDP-PARAGON (stand for Participatory Action Research To Advance Governance Options And Networks)
PARAGON activities include advances in major governance reforms in Asia, the formation of a parliamentary policy analysis network, and increased involvement of the media in governance issues, including the reduction of cross border tensions. Capacity building was advanced through the articulation of the training modules of the PARAGON Governance Training Portfolio, as well as through increased social communications. The latter involved substantive meetings, including a PARAGON Partner’s Meeting, and media based projection. A new project document incorporated prior experience and feedback to refine the basic PARAGON concept and resource mobilization was initiated, and steps were taken to form the PARAGON team.
