Corruption in marine wildlife trafficking
Part 4 of the Wildlife crime – understanding risks, avenues for action learning series explores how corruption facilitates marine species trafficking.
Informal governance
Unwritten
rules, special favours, “reaching an understanding”. Informality is
what happens outside the formal, rules-based system - and the study of
informality has big implications for the fight against corruption.
From 2016-2018, the Basel Institute on Governance, in partnership
with University College London and SOAS researched informality and its
relationship with corruption and governance. A multidisciplinary team of
researchers explored how corruption really works in seven countries in East Africa and Eurasia.
Their findings shed light on why "conventional" anti-corruption
practices have been so unsuccessful to date, and on the kinds of
policies and interventions that could have a bigger impact in the fight
against corruption.