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Announcing Our New Executive Director
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Global Integrity is excited to announce that Amy Miller-Taylor will join the organization as our incoming Executive Director on March 13, 2023. She comes from her previous position as Chief Strategy Officer at CIVICUS, a global alliance of civil society organizations and activists dedicated to strengthening citizen action and civil society throughout the world.
Amy’s career has centered around making public services work for people, with a demonstrated commitment to locally-led development and sharing and shifting power. Amy is passionate about the power of collective action to drive positive change and deliver impact at scale. She currently serves on the Boards of Accountable Now and WINGS, international networks catalyzing change makers in their respective fields.
Ania Calderon, Global Integrity’s Board Chair, describes Amy as, “an inclusive leader who believes that it’s critical to have new ideas and test limits. And, Amy is someone who can bring other people along with us on that journey. We are excited for what she will bring to Global Integrity!”
“It is an honor to be selected to serve as the new Executive Director of Global Integrity,” Amy said. “I feel privileged to continue the work initiated by my predecessor, Alan Hudson, who defined what Global Integrity is today, with its talented staff and diverse partners.
“This is a pivotal moment for Global Integrity. People around the world are organizing and calling for an end to systems that are unaccountable, corrupt and inequitable. As a trusted convenor and thought leader, Global Integrity can support these movements and local organizations to drive much-needed governance reform. Our team looks forward to meeting the challenges ahead.” ~ Amy Miller-Taylor
Questions? Contact us at info@globalintegrity.org.
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Global Integrity Anti-Corruption and Evidence Programme
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The Global Integrity Anti-Corruption and Evidence (GI-ACE) Programme, our flagship anti-corruption initiative funded by UK's FCDO, is entering a second phase - standing on the groundwork of three short-term projects that inform our future themes and priorities. Here are the highlights:
The research findings in Global Finance and the Enablers of Corruption (by Noah Arshinoff et al.) pointed out that the enablers (lawyers, accountants, bankers, real estate agents, etc.) are often crucial intermediaries of illicit financial flows (IFFs), and regulatory and legal mitigations tend to overlook sectors like higher education for money laundering.
When it comes to Corruption Risks in Global Trade and Commerce (by Maha Atal et al.), resource-rich countries with weak rule of law and limited state accountability are susceptible to multiple forms of corruption, including bribery, kickbacks, mispricing, embezzlement, and trade-based money laundering (TBML) – compounding social and environmental challenges that need for global accountability.
Lastly, as demonstrated by recent disasters, Crisis Responses and Corruption in Emergencies (by Sope Williams et al.) necessitate swift legislation that deprioritises processes and systems designed to identify and stem corruption and fraud, especially in vulnerable sectors like health and education. Policy interventions that ensure better public procurement are one effective avenue for risk reduction.
Stay tuned for a call for Expression of Interest in the spring!
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COVID-19 Transparency & Accountability Project
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Nine African organizations leading the COVID-19 Transparency and Accountability Project (CTAP) on the ground pivoted to create inclusive platforms for citizens to be informed and heard at the grassroots level, and to build coalitions with other civil society organizations and collaborative platforms like the Open Government Partnership (OGP) to have greater collective impact through collaboration and advocacy.
For a glimpse into the work, check out two recent fireside chats on vaccine fraud and misinformation and building better health systems through multi-stakeholder initiatives and bottom-up approaches to improve policies and governance with CTAP leads from Kenya, Malawi, Ghana, Cameroon, Senegal, and Liberia.
We are currently wrapping up the second phase of CTAP together with our long-standing partners in Nigeria: BudgIT and Connected Development (CODE). A final report is underway - watch this space for more and see what we learned so far.
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Participatory Approaches & Health Systems
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Building Bridges for Stronger Systems
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The Building Bridges learning journey connected and engaged three civil society organizations advocating for transparency in Ghana, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Serbia. The journey created space for mapping out issues and generating ideas about how to improve procurement systems during times of crisis to boost access and reduce corruption.
We co-designed the learning sessions adaptively to convene sector experts from local and global organizations, enable cross-country knowledge exchanges, reflect on common challenges, and spark connections. The project catalyzed effective action among our partners to strengthen systems, learn from each other, and break down silos.
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As a learning partner for this collaborative project with Transparency and Accountability Initiative (TAI) we provided guidance for design, planning, and evaluation of project implementation effectiveness. We did this by working with partners in Colombia & Nigeria to develop theories of change, construct learning and evaluation plans, gather evidence, and conduct research on utilizing open data.
We recently launched 3 reports: one for Colombia (also available in Spanish) released at an event involving the new government; one for Nigeria, which was launched with civil society partners; and one synthesizing lessons from country level work and literature review to inform global programming on data for accountability. See the top lessons in this blog on effective data use, published by the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data.
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GET INVOLVED IN OUR NEW PROJECT:
Share your insights through this short 10-min survey on anti-corruption windows of opportunity. Your responses will go a long way toward helping us to identify better ways to design and implement future anti-corruption efforts and build knowledge on the interventions that work.
The survey will be open until Friday, March 3rd, 2023, and is available in Spanish and English. It will inform a new joint project with CIPE that is currently underway. A summary of the findings will be shared during a public, virtual presentation in the spring of 2023.
We appreciate your insightful input!
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The Open Gov Hub celebrated its 10th anniversary in October 2022, commemorating the powerful impact of our collaborative coworking community. There is a lot to celebrate: we marked the first year in our new coworking space and grew our network to the biggest number of member organizations in the Hub’s history: 70+ and counting. PEN America, Wikimedia, and Atlas Corps are among the many nonprofit organizations that joined our network of change-makers in 2022.
We recently released our 2022 Year in Review, reflecting on our accomplishments and announcing our new 2023 themes: Climate and Sustainability and Resource and Information Sharing. Over the last decade, the Hub has helped organizations collaborate closer together for greater social impact by sharing knowledge and resources.
Going forward, we will continue to utilize the Hub’s vast and powerful network to advance the fight for transparency, accountability, and civic participation – especially in increasingly important areas of climate change, democratic rights, anti-corruption, and education.
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