The Challenge: Corruption is development in reverse, devastating the outcomes we seek across all sectors, eroding the rule of law, and undermining citizen trust in governing institutions and processes. Addressing these dynamics will require bold collective action, marshaling resources across sectors to confront contemporary corruption. Yet funding levels, globally, are falling significantly short of the resources needed to meet this time of both great promise and great peril in the fight against corruption.
The Opportunity: For this reason, as part of the Second Summit for Democracy, USAID launched the Integrity for Development Campaign (I4D). I4D seeks to increase the overall amount of funder and donor resources for anti-corruption, especially in environments in which the international community is making major sectoral investments – such as climate finance – and the risks of corruption are high.
The I4D campaign seeks to bring a total of a half billion to the fight against corruption by the end of 2024. USAID calls on funders – bilateral donors, private foundations, and multilateral actors – to match USAID’s target of $250 million anti-corruption investments ( contingent on availability of funds).
The Campaign raises awareness among funders and donors of the urgent needs of anti-corruption reformers, articulates the value proposition for investing in anti-corruption, and galvanizes new investments across a menu of options.
Participation in I4D can take multiple forms. To learn more about the different ways to take part in the campaign, please see the I4D Fact Sheet. To learn more about the I4D Campaign, please contact anti-corruption@usaid.gov.
