This document gives a detailed overview of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation’s (SDC) new approach to combating corruption. The strategy reflects new areas of intervention and sets priorities for SDC’s staff and partners from bilateral, multilateral and humanitarian domains The document gives a detailed description of the ways in which the SCD aims to achieve its objectives.
The document makes a number of recommendations in terms of integrating anti-corruption policies into SDC’s work:
- a detailed country context analysis is required in order to understand failures in the governance system;
- introducing the anti-corruption agenda into SDC sector programmes is recommended;
- ideally, both government and civil society shall work towards less corruption within a comprehensive strategy. In reality, this will depend on the driving forces operating in a country, the political will, and an assessment of the level of risks;
- SDC shall always analyse the impact of certain donor practices on the local context in terms of incentives and signals, and decide on their adequacy accordingly.
