The Anti-Corruption Campaigns is a collection of papers delivered at a conference held in Manchester in 2005, the same year that the United Nations Anti-Corruption Convention came into force. In the lead-up to the UN agreement, and subsequently, there were a number of anti-corruption conventions signed around the world. As donor-countries, multi-lateral institutions, non-governmental organisations and international financial institutions began to sing the mantra 'corruption is bad for development,' consequently anti-corruption programmes became integral elements of any long-term country development strategy. What ties the essays together in this book is an intent to awaken donors to realize that anti-corruption campaigns are not a good, in and of themselves, by examining their deficiencies. The experts call for the need to refine, retool and improve future anti-corruption efforts with lessons learned from the past.
Corruption and Development is written in hopes that development practitioners will put their recommendations into practice and anyone in the development field-academics, students and specialists-should be compelled to read and evangelise their message. Taken together, the papers offer five characteristics of a successful anti-corruption campaign: