USAID Global Health Anti-Corruption Integration Handbook
Source: USAID | Year: 2022
“In line with the U.S. Strategy on Countering Corruption, USAID now defines corruption as “the abuse of entrusted power and influence for personal or political gain”. At the heart of this definition is the exploitation of power - both formal and informal - to divert, misappropriate or capture public resources, goods and access for personal and political purposes. Corruption in the health sector wastes scarce public health resources, undermines citizen trust in government, and ultimately leads to unnecessary deaths and illness. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that globally more than US$400 billion in health resources are lost annually to corruption. In low income countries, over 80 percent of people have experienced health sector corruption. Moreover, corruption tends to impact the poor and vulnerable most acutely.
As part of USAID’s broader effort to elevate anti-corruption efforts across the Agency, we are adapting our programming to transform the fight against corruption. To achieve this, health teams are being asked to become more agile to respond to windows of opportunity to address corruption in the sector, improve coordination across the agency and interagency, experiment with new approaches to tackle long-standing and deeply embedded forms of corruption in the health sector as well as new and evolving issues of transnational corruption and crime, such as illicit trade in counterfeit medicines. USAID’s Global Health Anti-Corruption Integration Handbook provides a practical set of tools and approaches to advance this agenda.”
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