About

The Global Anti-Corruption Pledge Tracker is a civil-society assessment of how over 20 governments have performed on the delivery of commitments made at the 2016 Anti-Corruption Summit. The Tracker is led by Transparency International UK (TI-UK), but is a collaborative effort with other Transparency International chapters or partners in each relevant country.

In the categorisation of progress on each commitment, the tracker also takes the strength of the original commitment into consideration by detailing how concrete, new and ambitious the original commitment was in 2016.

The Global Anti-Corruption Pledge Tracker is not an index, as we do not rank or score governments based on their implementation performance. Comparing progress on commitments across countries is discouraged, as the pledges made at the 2016 Summit varied in content and quality. For detail and additional notes on the strength of each commitment, please download the full dataset.

If you are aware of any outdated information captured on the Global Anti-Corruption Pledge Tracker, please contact TI-UK or the relevant TI chapter with publicly available evidence of more accurate information. This data will be updated again in autumn 2019, and we’re always working to ensure that the assessments we publish are up-to-date and based on evidence.

LICENCE

This tool is made available under the Open Database License. Any rights in individual contents of the database are licensed under the Database Contents License.

SCOPE

The Global Anti-Corruption Pledge Tracker focuses on commitments made by over 20 governments, across six themes:

1. Asset Recovery
2. Beneficial Ownership
3. Law Enforcement
4. Open Data
5. Public Procurement
6. Whistleblower and Civil Society Space Protection

METHODOLOGY

Working with colleagues in TI chapters in over 20 countries, we followed this methodology:

1. Took time to UNDERSTAND what the government’s commitments are referring to;
2. DECIDED how to measure progress for each commitment;
3. REMOVED any commitments which were deemed too vague to track;
4. IDENTIFIED the government department responsible for delivering on each commitment;
5. INFORMED the responsible department that their progress will be monitored;
6. If possible, RECORDED an expected timeline for delivering each commitment;
7. INVITED government to share evidence of their progress;
8. RESEARCHED evidence of progress on each commitment if government has not provided evidence;
9. CATEGORISED each commitment as one of the following options below, according to the definitions provided;
10. INPUTTED the evidence and categorisation

*The original deadline given. If no deadline given at the Summit, the first deadline offered by the government should be the one followed.

The following civil society organisations are responsible for the relevant government pledge assessments included in the Global Anti-Corruption Pledge Tracker. Please contact them, or TI-UK, directly if you have any questions about the project.

Australia – Transparency International Australia

Brazil – Transparencia Internacional Brasil

Bulgaria – Transparency International Bulgaria

France – Transparency International France/span>

Georgia – Transparency International Georgia

Ghana – Ghana Integrity Initiative

Indonesia – Transparency International Indonesia

Jordan – Rasheed

Kenya – Transparency International Kenya

Mexico – Transparencia Mexicana

New Zealand – Transparency International New Zealand

Nigeria – Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre

Russia – Transparency International Russia

South Korea – Transparency International Korea

Spain – Transparency International España 

Sri Lanka – Transparency International Sri Lanka

Switzerland – Transparency International Switzerland

Trinidad and Tobago – Trinidad and Tobago Transparency Institute

UK – Transparency International UK

Ukraine – Transparency International Ukraine