CORRUPTION – Can it be cured?
An international seminar on making anti-corruption work. Stockholm Sweden - January 13, 2010

Two challenges
In August 28, 2009, Ms Gunilla Carlsson, the Swedish Minister for Development Cooperation, gave 100 days to the Director General of SADEV (Swedish Development Evaluation Agency) to develop 10 innovative proposals on how development aid can be made more effective in a world where corruption is a fact. She also gave 100 days to develop innovative ideas for a regional anti-corruption initiative for Africa. The results were publicly presented by the Minister and debated by some 250 participants at a day long seminar on December 9, International Anti-Corruption Day.

One outcome
In response, SIPU joined forces with London-based NGO Tiri and organized an international seminar to go one step further and explore how these proposals can be made operational, especially in the diverse and often difficult realities of countries in Africa as well as in Sweden’s other partner countries.

The specific objectives of the seminar were:

• Generate additional ‘outside-the-box’ ideas to fight corruption
• Assess the practical feasibility and potential impact on corruption of the proposals
• Recommend promising areas where proposals can be tested in real life
• Suggest concrete ways and means to make them work on the ground
• Explore how seminar participants and other actors can help make the initiatives a success

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