Get Started
Where to Start: Building Anti-Corruption into Conservation
To safeguard a future for nature and people, it's essential to consider the drivers and facilitators of corruption that may undermine results and scale anti-corruption in conservation work.
Areas of Work
Are you concerned that systemic corruption is impacting your conservation goals? Does corruption seem insurmountable and you don’t know where to start? Select your area of work from the menu below to see how a corruption-smart lens could inform your programming.
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Wildlife trafficking
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Illegal, unreported & unregulated fishing
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Illegal logging & associated trade
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Protected areas & natural resource governance
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Community-based conservation
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Sustainable supply chains
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Climate crisis
Seeking advisors and partners?
Strengthen alliances to counter environmental corruption
Connect with anti-corruption experts and others in the conservation community who could be strong partners or advisors by joining a working group in the Countering Environmental Corruption Practitioners Forum.
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Resources
Guidance for Getting Started
- Strengthen alliances to counter environmental corruption
- Strategic framework: Political economy analysis for conservation impact (PEACI)
- Anti-corruption Programming in Conservation and Natural Resource Management: Principles for Getting Started
- A Guide to Identifying Corruption Risks Along Natural Resource Supply Chains
Definitions and Issue Analysis
- Monitoring, evaluation, and learning for anti-corruption projects: What conservation practitioners need to know
- Corruption definitions and their implications for targeting natural resource corruption
- Natural resources, human rights, and corruption: What are the connections?
- Corruption, informality and social norms
- Gender-based violence and environment linkages: The violence of inequality
- Reducing corruption’s impact on natural resources – How does a gender lens help?
- Building accountable resource governance institutions
Expert Insights
- What do we know about anti-corruption effectiveness in renewable natural resources?
- Definitions matter: What do we mean when we talk about corruption in conservation, and what difference does it make?
- Corruption in the Environment: New Perspectives
- International Women’s Day 2020: Connecting gender empowerment, conservation and anti-corruption
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.