Encouraging Global Anticorruption and Good Governance Efforts (ENGAGE)

Provide USAID and its partner countries with the broad range of technical assistance necessary to develop and implement appropriate and meaningful strategies to fight corruption and ensure accountability in public life. USAID defines corruption as “the abuse of entrusted authority for private gain.” This activity focuses on unilateral abuses by governmental officials such as embezzlement and nepotism, as well as abuses linking public and private actors such as bribery, extortion, influence peddling, and fraud, and at both lower and higher levels of government and the public sector (i.e., both “administrative” and “grand” corruption).

The activities to support the strategic approaches to fighting corruption under this contract are expected to encompass the following functional areas: (a) public financial, administrative and regulatory measures that promote transparency and accountability; (b) civil society advocacy on behalf of governmental integrity; and (c) incorporation of anti-corruption promotion into other sectoral/sub-sectoral areas, such as health and education, corporate governance, or into key aspects of democracy promotion, such as rule of law, legislative oversight or local government strengthening.