The UNCAC Coalition’s Gender, Inclusion & Corruption working group seeks to:

• Influence and inspire
• Share ideas
• Advocate for better data
• Advocate for changes in international law, policy, and practice.
• Create a space for discussion and debate

Please find here more information about the background, context, aims, and expected outputs and outcomes of the working group. 

Working Group Co-Chairs:

Monica Kirya,  Senior Advisor, U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Center of the Chr. Michelsen Institute.

Matthew Gichohi,  researcher, U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Center of the Chr. Michelsen Institute.

The Working Group hosts a dedicated email discussion list as well as several coordination calls per year.

Next Working Group Meeting: 

TBD

Selected past activities and outputs on Gender, Inclusion & Corruption:

General readings

• U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre: Gender and Corruption – Basic Guide.
• Camacho, G.; (2021) Corruption and gender equality: a summary of existing research. Bergen: U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Helpdesk Answer 2021:9) 
• Transparency International Submission to the 8th UNCAC CoSP
• Bauhr, M. et al., 2018. Close the political gender gap to reduce corruption, U4 Brief. 

Sexual Corruption / Sextortion

• Transparency International (2022). Criminalising sextortion: Challenges and alternatives.
• International Association of Women Judges (IAWJ), 2012. Stopping the abuse of power through sexual exploitation: naming, shaming, and ending sextortion. 
• Eldén, Å., D. Calvo, E. Bjarnegård, S. Lundgren and S. Jonsson (2020), Sextortion: Corruption and Gender-Based Violence, EBA Report 2020:06, the Expert Group for Aid Studies (EBA), Sweden. 
• International Bar Association (IBA)/Sara Carnegie (2019) Sextortion. A crime of corruption and sexual exploitation. International Bar Association, London, UK. 
• GiZ, 2021. Sextortion: Understanding and addressing sexualized corruption

Mainstreaming gender in the UNCAC and anti-corruption initiatives generally

• Merkle, O.; (2018) Mainstreaming gender and human rights in anti-corruption programming. Bergen: U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Helpdesk Answer 2018:8) 
• Rahman, K.; (2021) Gender mainstreaming in the UNCAC . Bergen: U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Helpdesk Answer 2021:14) 
• Zúñiga, N.; (2020) Gender sensitivity in corruption reporting and whistleblowing. Bergen: U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Helpdesk Answer 2020:10) 
• Brownie, E. 2014. Gender – the power relationship that Political Economy Analysis forgot? 

Inclusion / intersectionality

• Bullock J and Jenkins M, 2020. Corruption and Marginalisation. Transparency International Helpdesk Answer 
• Jenkins, M.; McDonald, E.; (2022) Corruption and the equal enjoyment of rights for persons with disabilities. Bergen: U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Helpdesk Answer 2022:7)