WIN Report: Going from political rhetoric to anti-corruption action in water: what will it take?

Author: Water Integrity Network

As part of the World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden the seminar ‘Going from political rhetoric to anti-corruption action in water: what will it take?’ brought together corruption fighters, researchers and water sector professionals on 16 August 2007 to discuss the thorny issue of corruption in the sector. Organized by the Water Integrity Network (WIN) as part of a series of annual events in Stockholm, it aimed to provide a forum to deepen our understanding of water-sector corruption and particularly, how to take more concrete actions to tackle it.

The seminar included presentations by:

Janelle Plummer (a governance advisor based in Ethiopia) on frameworks to understand corruption
Undala Alam (Centre for Water Science at Cranfield University) on the links between social behaviours and corruption; and
Scott Guggenheim on how corruption has been fought at the grassroots in the World Bank-supported Kecamatan Development Project in Indonesia.

In a subsequent panel discussion these presenters were joined by Cobus de Swardt (Transparency International) and Ina Eriksson (SIDA) for a debate with audience.

Download the full report and the presentations below.

Link: http://www.worldwaterweek.org