Situation Analysis
Good project design requires a common understanding of the context — both the biological environment and the social, economic, political, and institutional systems that affect desired outcomes. Corruption can directly facilitate harms to biodiversity, nature, and people, or it can threaten the success of initiatives to protect these values, so understanding these threats should be part of any situation analysis.
This page provides information, guidance, and tools for practitioners who seek to integrate a corruption lens into situation analysis and program design. The contents outline ways to analyze the impact of corruption on conservation outcomes and assess the strengths and weaknesses of programming responses in a specific context.
Inside the Topic
Read the Guide
- 1. What is situation analysis?
- 2. Conducting a corruption-focused situation analysis
- 2.1 Broad approaches
- 2.2 Focused approaches
- 3. Incorporating situation analysis into programming
Resources
Tools for Conservation Programming
- Corruption as an indirect threat to conservation
- Designing social norms and behavior change interventions: Guidance resources for conservation practitioners
- Translating political economy insights into conservation practice: A six-step guide to using PEAs to design and test theories of change for interventions to protect and defend nature
- Methodological guide for corruption risk assessments in fisheries value chains
- How-to Guide: Strengthening internal controls to prevent corruption in illegal wildlife trade enforcement
- Conducting a corruption-oriented situation analysis for conservation work: Guidance from experience
- Strategic framework: Political economy analysis for conservation impact (PEACI)
- Anti-corruption Programming in Conservation and Natural Resource Management: Principles for Getting Started
- Thinking and Working Politically: Resources from USAID for Biodiversity Conservation
- Discussion Note: Thinking and Working Politically and Strengthening Political Economy Analysis in USAID Biodiversity Programming
- Scaling Back Corruption: A Guide on Addressing Corruption for Wildlife Management Authorities
- Rotten Fish: A Guide on Addressing Corruption in the Fisheries Sector
Research Papers & Issue Analysis
- How political economy analysis can support corruption risk assessments to strengthen law enforcement against wildlife crimes
- Where are the weakest links in the illegal wildlife trade enforcement chain? Lessons from corruption risk assessments with agencies in three countries
- A Political Ecology Lens for Addressing Corruption in Conservation and Natural Resource Management
Place-Specific Resources
- The political economy of a green recovery in Ukraine
- Podcast: Corruption in Indonesia's forest sector: No victimless crime
- Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in a context of nationalist oligarchy: Lessons from Indonesia
Expert Insights
- Putting political economy analysis into practice: Using political economy for environmental anti-corruption theories of change
- Understanding power and politics for better conservation outcomes
- Lessons from building a WWF regional initiative to reduce the impacts of corruption on conservation goals in Latin America
- Mainstreaming anti-corruption in conservation: Dispelling myths and charting a path forward
- Environmental corruption: Building bridges across conservation and anti-corruption practice to stop environmental corruption from the ground up
- Her story: Women targeting natural resource corruption | Renata Cao
- Practitioners’ considerations on risk in anti-corruption and conservation
- Corruption and the challenge to protect human rights and the environment: What can conservationists do?
- TNRC project-based learning: Six things donors should know about anti-corruption in conservation projects
- TNRC project-based learning: Conservation practitioner perspectives on “corruption” and “analysis"
- TNRC project-based learning: Supporting the implementers of TNRC’s pilots and Associate Awards
- Framing and implementing effective assessments of corruption for conservation interventions
- Lessons from the field: Assessing corruption risks that undermine law enforcement action against natural resource crimes
- Whose reality counts? Understanding actor perceptions in project development to better target natural resource corruption
- Part II: Implementing a Political Ecology Approach
- Part I: Understanding a Political Ecology Approach
- How can I integrate Thinking & Working Politically into my day-to-day programming on natural resource management?
- Targeting corruption in environmental crime and natural resource governance: How can ‘Thinking & Working Politically’ help to unlock political will?
Where to Start
Building Anti-Corruption into Conservation Work
Locate your conservation challenge and follow three steps to understand forms of corruption that impact conservation outcomes, analyze your situation, and identify programming approaches that could improve results.
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This content is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The contents are the responsibility of World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID, the United States Government, or individual TNRC consortium members.