We hope these resources are useful as policy makers, experts and activists meet to discuss the just released FfD4 zero draft (financing.desa.un.org/ffd4/outcome)

Our working papers summarize key insights and recommendations from these discussions, such as the role professional service providers play in relation to tax abuse and illicit financial flows and what FfD4 can do about it: www.undp.org/publications...

To support this process, we have been convening governments, civil society, academia and other key stakeholders to unpack FfD4 issues related to financial integrity. We’ve discussed international cooperation on tax, debt, illicit financial flows, etc.

ATAC’s discovery phase is well underway with research, systems analysis, and collective sensemaking. Based on this, we surface actionable insights and opportunities for augmenting and accelerating the fight against transnational corruption. If you are interested in collaborating, please reach out.

UNDP’s ATAC initiative is an experimental effort that aims to help develop a radically different approach to understanding and tackling transnational corruption more effectively. To do this, the initiative experiments with systems thinking and complexity-grounded methods.

As a result, we struggle to approach the problem holistically across borders and to connect efforts in global financial centers in a meaningful way with those in developing countries.

Many efforts in this space are not designed to tackle the complex, multi-layered, and deep political economy dimensions of the problem.

We currently fall short of addressing the problem in a systemic way. The problem is complex and multi-faceted, while current efforts tend to work in silos through ‘single-point solutions.’

TL; DR: Grand corruption is often seen as a problem that plays out within developing countries. Yet, it is enabled by an ecosystem spanning the Global North and South, through networks of professional enablers, opaque corporate ownership structures, and financial secrecy.