Internet Resources to help you analyze
Risk Assessment and Ethics in
International Conservation Projects

Risk Assessment and Ethics in
International Conservation Projects
A presentation at the
Zoos & Aquariums:
Committing to Conservation Conference
January 26th-30th, 2005
 

LINKS

Risk Assessment:

U.S. Department of State: Travel and Living Abroad http://www.state.gov/travel/

Tips for Traveling Abroad http://travel.state.gov/travel/abroad.html

Travel Warnings http://travel.state.gov/travel/warnings.html

Ethics:

http://www.globalethics.org/pub/toughchoices.html first chapter and info for ordering the following book:

How Good People Make Tough Choices
Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living

by Rushworth M. Kidder

http://www.corisweb.org/ CORIS: Corruption Online Research &Information Resource

Transparency International’s web portal on anti-corruption resources
http://www.corisweb.org/country/ Coris country profiles

more links at CORIS http://admin.corisweb.org/index.php?fuseaction=search.webResources&letter=A

http://forests.org/archive/general/corrruin.htm

UNDUE INFLUENCE:   CORRUPTION AND NATURAL RESOURCES
http://earthtrends.wri.org/features/view_feature.cfm?theme=10&fid=44

Institute for Global Ethics http://www.globalethics.org/
ethical dilemmas:  http://www.globalethics.org/dilemmas/default.tmpl
tough choices:  http://www.globalethics.org/pub/toughchoices.html

• Ethics Model: Ethical Decision Making Model for ALA
• Strategic Modeling: The Ethics Audit for Non-Profit Organizations
• Contrasting the Vision and Reality: A process for Ethical Reflection and Decision Making
• A strategy for resolving ethical dilemmas (strategy.pdf -- 35K)
• The best argument for doing the right thing (whyvirtue.pdf -- 89K)
• 1997-98 Annual Report (9798report.pdf -- 630K)
• 1999 Annual Report (99report.pdf -- 521K)

 How dirty money binds the poor:
Between 1970 and 2002, for example, the World Bank and the IMF disbursed $232bn to Indonesia, $94bn to the Philippines, $28bn to Nigeria and $10bn to Congo/Zaire. Compare this with Transparency International's tallies of theft at the highest levels: up to $35bn by Suharto, $10bn by Ferdinand Marcos, $5bn by Sani Abacha and $5bn by Mobutu Sese Seko.
Financial Times, 13 October 2004
http://admin.corisweb.org/index.php?fuseaction=news.view&id=115434&src=dcn

http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/governance/

http://www.oecd.org/daf/nocorruption/

Anti-Corruption Network Europe and Eurasia http://www.nobribes.org/

http://www.nobribes.org/en/news/headline_news.asp#top

Indonesia Corruption Watch http://www.antikorupsi.org/eng/?PHPSESSID=4fb550ca954a7b3f2b27fdfd86db1b13

United Nations Development Programme - Accountability, Transparency and Anti-corruption
http://www.undp.org/governance/account.htm

Source Book on Accountability, Transparency and Integrity (Module 10: Resources on ATI provides a full list of references, web links and sources of information.) http://intra.undp.org/bdp/anti-corruption/sourcebook_ati.htm

UNDP Case Studies on Anti-Corruption http://intra.undp.org/bdp/anti-corruption/casestudies.htm

UNDP Inventory of Anti-Corruption Projects http://intra.undp.org/bdp/anti-corruption/docs/Inventory%20of%Anti-CorruptionProjects%20071803.xls

CONTACT Country Assessment in Accountability and Transparency guidelines

http://www.undp.org/governance/contact_2001.htm

Fighting Corruption to Improve Governance
http://www.undp.org/governance/docsaccount/fighting_corruption_to_improve_governance.pdf

UNDP/OECD Integrity Improvement Initiatives in Developing Countries
http://magnet.undp.org/Docs/efa/corruption/Corrupti.htm

Corruption and Good Governance (UNDP Discussion Paper)
http://magnet.undp.org/Docs/efa/corruption3/corruption3.htm

 World Bank
Country Analytic Work http://www.countryanalyticwork.net

International Monetary Fund
ROSC (Reports on Observance of Standards and Codes) http://www.imf.org/external/np/rosc/rosc.asp

IMF Manual on Fiscal Transparency
http://www.imf.org/external/np/fad/trans/manual/index.htm

USAID
USAID anti-corruption resources http://www.usaid.gov/deomcracy/anticorruption
USAID Anticorruption Strategy http://www.dec.org/pdf_docs/PDACA557.pdf

 OECD
http://www.oecd.org/EN/document/0,,EN-document-0-nodirectorate-no-21-42047-0,00.html
www.anti-corruptionnet.org
www.oecd.org/daf/nocorruption/index.htm
www.oecd.org/EN
www.oecd.org/fatf/
http://www1.oecd.org/daf/nocorruptionweb/index.htm
http://www1.oecd.org/puma/ethics/index.htm

Civil Society Organisations, Academe, Media and other information sources

BETA news agency, Clean Hands pages www.beta.co.yu/korupcija/eng

Colgate University, Corruption Bibliography http://people/colgate.edu/mjohnston

Committee to Protect Journalists www.cpj.org

Ethics Resource Center www.ethics.org

Global Witness (Publish What you Pay Initiative", jointly with Transparency International, Global Compact) www.globalwitness.org/campaigns/oil/publish_what_pay.html

The Corruption List www.corruptionlist.com

TIRI www.tiri.org

Transnational Crime and Corruption Center at American University www.american.edu/traccc

Transparency International The Corruption Fighters Toolkit http://www.transparency.org/toolkits/index.html

Other:

http://www.globalwitness.org/  Global Witness campaigns to achieve real change by challenging established thinking on seemingly intractable global issues. We work to highlight the link between the exploitation of natural resources and human rights abuses, particularly where the resources such as timber, diamonds and oil are used to fund and perpetuate conflict and corruption.

An organization that honors “giraffes”, people who stick their necks out for ethical, social, and environmental causes.  To be named a Giraffe, a nominee must have taken a significant risk for the common good. http://www.giraffe.org/heroes.html

The Africa Biodiversity Collaborative Group (ABCG) comprises U.S.-based international conservation non-governmental organizations with field-based activities in Africa.  ABCG explores emerging conservation issues, shares lessons learned, and seeks opportunities for collaboration.

http://www.inece.org/ The International Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement (INECE) is a network of government and non-government enforcement and compliance practitioners from over 100 countries.

http://www.ashoka.org/home/index.cfm

Ashoka's mission is to develop the profession of social entrepreneurship around the world.

Ashoka invests in people. It is a global organization that searches the world for social entrepreneurs—extraordinary individuals with unprecedented ideas for change in their communities. Ashoka identifies and invests in these social entrepreneurs when no one else will.

It does so through stipends and professional services that allow "Ashoka Fellows" to focus full time on their ideas for leading social change in education and youth development, health care, environment, human rights, access to technology and economic development.