OUR GLOBAL MOVEMENT
In the first year of our new ten-year strategy, Stopping Corruption, Promoting Integrity, this report outlines our achievements to end the UK’s role as a global hub for dirty money, to increase integrity in politics and public life and to protect the public purse.
This report focuses on corruption in the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine in three different focus countries: Bangladesh, Uganda and Zambia. It aims to shed light on the prevalence of different types of corruption in relation to the rollout, discuss their potential drivers, as well as exploring prospective avenues for their prevention and mitigation.
The report reviews three types of corruption in regard to the COVID-19 vaccine rollout: bribery, corrupt fraud and embezzlement and diversion. Our analysis is based on primary data, reports and observations collected as part of our work in the three countries We triangulated findings with a systematic review of peer-reviewed literature as well as online news reports. The report aims to contribute to the rapidly developing evidence base on the COVID-19 vaccine rollout by offering a perspective that has so far often been overlooked and neglected: the widespread prevalence and adverse impact of corruption. Furthermore, it intends to expand our understanding of corruption in the health sector and offer some novel insights into the issue of corruption in vaccine delivery.
This research was made possible by funding from the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
This policy brief builds upon the evidence gathered by Transparency International Global Health (TIGH) Programme and partners in Bangladesh, Uganda, and Zambia indicating three hidden barriers for equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines – corruption, lack of transparency, and misinformation. Further details about the research can be found in the report “Transparency and corruption in COVID-19 vaccine deployment: Evidence from Bangladesh, Uganda, and Zambia”.
The policy brief provides recommendations for Multi- and Bilaterals, Foundations, Governments, Non-Government Organizations and Civil Society on how to address these hidden barriers in order to achieve comprehensive and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines going forward.
This research was made possible with funding from the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Welcome to our Annual Report for the year ended 31 March 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic dominated the year for Transparency International UK as it did for so many organisations. It also underscored the importance of our work at a time when protecting the public’s resources, building integrity in the public and private sector and ensuring those who would exploit the crisis for their own gain do not go unpunished could not be more critical.
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