Supply Chains
Consumers want legal, sustainable natural resource products. But corruption, in many forms, may occur at a range of points along natural resource supply chains, undermining confidence in the legality and sustainability of the product.
This page provides information, guidance, and tools for practitioners who want to engage private sector or government partners to enhance the sustainability and legality of supply chains. The contents outline corruption risks along forest, fishery, and wildlife supply chains, and the good practices and tools available to address vulnerabilities in various contexts.
Inside the Topic
Read the Guide
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Manifestations of corruption along natural resource supply chains
- 3. Anti-corruption approaches for supply chain integrity
- 3.1 Changing and enforcing the rules
- 3.2 Transparency and accountability
- 3.3 Social norms and behavior change
Resources
Tools for Conservation Programming
- Integrating anti-corruption into traceability initiatives
- Methodological guide for corruption risk assessments in fisheries value chains
- Visualizing corruption risks in the illegal rhino horn trade supply chain
- A Guide to Identifying Corruption Risks Along Natural Resource Supply Chains
- Rotten Fish: A Guide on Addressing Corruption in the Fisheries Sector
Research Papers & Issue Analysis
- Tracking the trade: Increasing efficiency and transparency in Tanzania's timber sector
- Open secrets: Corruption in Free Trade and Special Economic Zones as an enabler for illegal wildlife trade
- Beneficial ownership in the fishing sector and links to corruption
- Traceability systems: Potential tools to deter illegality and corruption in the timber and fish sectors?
- Corruption in the Fisheries Sector: Import Controls, Transparency, and WWF Practice
- Using Wood Forensic Science to Deter Corruption and Illegality in the Timber Trade
- Keeping Better Company: Engaging the private sector to reduce forest sector-related corruption risk
- Trade-Based Money Laundering and Natural Resource Corruption
- Corrupting trade: An overview of corruption issues in illicit wildlife trade
- Addressing corruption in CITES documentation processes
- Illegal Logging, Fishing and Wildlife Trade: The Costs and How to Combat It
Place-Specific Resources
- Lessons learned and quantified from the baseline of a fisheries anti-corruption project in Peru
- “Justina del Mar,” a virtual ally to prevent corruption in the artisanal fishing sector
- Digital capture certificates to close opportunities for corruption
- Case study | Vulnerabilities in fisheries in Mexico: A challenge for sustainability
- The political economy of a green recovery in Ukraine
- Case study: Reducing corruption in the fisheries sector: Lessons learned from WWF Peru
- Case Study: Using legislative advocacy and a transparency electronic system to reduce illegal and unreported fish discards in Argentina
- Colombian fisheries and aquaculture sector: Overview of corruption
- Corruption and criminality behind biodiversity loss in Colombia’s forests: Wildlife trafficking
- Corruption and criminality behind biodiversity loss in Colombia’s forests: Illegal mining
- The International Links of Peruvian Illegal Timber: A Trade Discrepancy Analysis
- Small-Scale and Artisanal Mining: Impacts on Biodiversity in Latin America
- Countering Wildlife Trafficking through Tanzania’s Seaports
Expert Insights
- Traceability, Technology, and Transformation: WWF’s Activities Reducing Fisheries Corruption in the Americas
- 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 | Daniela Gomel
- Harnessing big data to uncover corruption in the forestry sector
- Can conservation organizations use big data analytics to tackle corruption in the forestry sector?
- Trade Discrepancy Analysis: A Tool to Identify Environmental Corruption and Associated Illicit Financial Flows
- Commodity supply chain traceability initiatives and their anti-corruption potential
- Lessons from research: Using trade data to expose illicit financial flows and corruption in natural resource commodities, and broader applications
- Corruption in the wild plants supply chain: Addressing the social, financial, and environmental costs
- Podcast: Building State Capacity? Anti-Corruption and Illegal Logging in the Peruvian Amazon
- Connections between IUU fishing and corruption — and how the global community can combat them
- Illegal wildlife markets, zoonotic disease transfer and corruption—Connections and what the global community must do about it
- Making the connection: Trade-based money laundering, corruption, and natural resources
- Ten anti-corruption take-aways from Forest Legality Week
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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