This Guide supports wildlife management authorities, including CITES Management and Scientific Authorities, by providing practical solutions to corruption-related issues, in order to improve integrity and transparency, and thereby reduce or prevent corruption. It does this by guiding the user through a structured assessment of corruption risks, detailing useful analytical tools and providing examples of effective preventive and enforcement-focused anti-corruption measures that have been successfully implemented in other contexts.
Importantly, this Guide advocates incorporating a “preventive approach” to combating corruption, alongside the more traditional “enforcement approach”. The best corruption treatment plans will incorporate both these approaches in a complementary manner.
