Building Bridges Amid Division: Understanding America’s Conflict Dynamics
In this podcast, AfP Executive Director Liz Hume discusses identity-based grievances, polarization, and social cohesion in the U.S. While conflict…
Theme: Transparency & Open Government
Programmatic Strategy 2023-2025
Club de Madrid´s 2023-2025 Programmatic Strategy aims to guide the organisation’s efforts for the next three years with an eye…
Kleptocratic cooperation in Africa: how Russia and China undermine democracy
Authoritarian actors play a crucial role in enabling kleptocracy across sub-Saharan Africa. In a new International Forum report, J.R. Mailey…
The Corruption Perceptions Index 2023
The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) scores 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, according to…
Listening and Responding to Bangladesh’s Citizens During the Covid-19 Pandemic
This report summarizes findings from research designed to assess how and how effectively different levels of the Bangladesh government listened…
Civil Society in Ukraine’s Restoration: A Guide to CSOs Mobilizing for a Marshall Plan
Following Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, Ukrainian civil society mobilized like never before. In the area of humanitarian crisis…
Defending Democracy: The Future of Ukraine
One year into Russia’s war on Ukraine, we take a look at how Ukrainians are preparing for life after war,…
Tackling grand corruption impunity: proposals for a definition and special measures
Grand corruption, also known as political corruption, state capture, or kleptocracy, thrives in environments with weak checks on executive power…
Governance Reform and Public Service Provision: Institutional Resilience and State-Society Synergy
This brief review of institutionally resilient participatory oversight reforms in four countries spotlights how hybrid, collaborative governance can work in…
Kyiv’s Mobilization for Restoration: A Landscape Analysis of Ukrainian Government Authorities Organizing for a Marshall Plan
Over the past decade, Ukraine has undergone a profound transformation from a closed post-Soviet oligarchy to an open society striving…