Anti-Corruption: Success Stories
Americas’ Accountability Anti-Corruption Project
Since 1998, USAID has managed Americas’ Accountability Anti-Corruption (AAA) Project, designed to improve governmental accountability and financial management. Nearly every country adopted the financial management systems developed through the AAA, instituting auditing, accounting, and transparency systems that help prevent fraud and abuse. The project develops and promotes best practices, runs a highly successful anti-corruption website (Respondnet—the most popular anti-corruption site on the internet), sponsors networks of NGOs and professional associations, supports courses and pilot projects, and has now expanded its work to municipal governments. Achievements of the project include increased use of financial controls to better detect fraud and misuse of public resources, establishment of public oversight mechanisms to advocate for a more accountable government, implementation of justice reform that improves the justice system’s effectiveness and reduces impunity, and administrative and civil service reform that supports transparency and citizen participation, preventing corruption. Recently, AAA sponsored high-profile workshops on social auditing for local governments in the Dominican Republic and Honduras.
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