TNRC Project Overview
The TNRC project has focused on advancing knowledge and strengthening capacity, policy, and practice to address the negative impact of corruption on conservation and natural resource management objectives.
Targeting Natural Resource Corruption (TNRC) is a USAID-funded project to improve biodiversity outcomes by equipping practitioners to address the threats posed by corruption to wildlife, fisheries, and forests. It does this through three Strategic Approaches:
Building Knowledge
Distilling existing anti-corruption knowledge to make it relevant for NRM practitioners
Researching and strengthening evidence on how anti-corruption efforts can help improve biodiversity outcomes
Communicating for Change
Engaging networks and partnerships to exchange knowledge and amplify the reach of anti-corruption information
Empowering others to implement context-appropriate anti-corruption initiatives in NRM
Applying Knowledge and Testing Hypotheses
Piloting and learning from new approaches
Applying broader anti-corruption interventions under Associate Awards
TNRC is implemented by a consortium of leading organizations in anti-corruption, natural resource management, and conservation: World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre at the Chr. Michelsen Institute, TRAFFIC, and the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC) at George Mason University.
The TNRC project has focused on advancing knowledge and strengthening capacity, policy, and practice to address the negative impact of corruption on conservation and natural resource management objectives.
TNRC is a Leader with Associates (LWA) award. The Leader Award is managed out of WWF-US and supports research, knowledge dissemination, networking, and piloting new approaches. Up to $35 million for Associate Awards may be mobilized by USAID country offices and other operating units, at their discretion, to support analysis and/or implementation of context-specific anti-corruption programming.
The Associate Awards will leverage and contribute to TNRC's knowledge agenda, while responding to specific programming priorities agreed between USAID missions/operating units and TNRC.
TNRC is a Leader with Associates award. The Leader Award is a $10 million award (August 2018 - June 2024) that supports research, knowledge dissemination, networking, and piloting new approaches in a limited number of countries.
Associate Awards under the TNRC mechanism can enable USAID Missions or operating units to analyze and develop a stronger understanding of corruption vulnerabilities and viable entry points for reform; to implement stand-alone activities; and/or to integrate anti-corruption elements into conservation and natural resource management efforts. These awards may be issued at any time up to 26 June 2024 (maximum duration of five years).
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