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U4: Using Legal Empowerment to Curb Corruption and Advance Accountability

Legal empowerment refers to the use of laws and rights to increase relatively powerless populations’ control over their lives. A growing field, it overlaps with social accountability but emphasises laws and rights. Legal empowerment can help curb corruption and promote accountability in education, health, budgeting, formal and informal justice systems, and democratic governance. Development agencies, governments, and civil society should take account of the many ways in which legal empowerment can bolster anti-corruption efforts.

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Document type Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Language of document
  • English
Topics Anti-corruption
Geographic area (spatial range)
  • Global
Copyright Yes
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Attribution CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 - The content of this research may be reproduced and distributed for non-commercial purposes, if (organization/individual) is notified and the authors are acknowledged as the source.

Version / Edition U4 Issue 2020:4
License Creative Commons Attribution
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Author (individual) Stephen Golub
Co-author (individual) Monica Kirya (Series Editor)
Publication place Norway
Publisher U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre
Publication date 2020
Pagination 32
Keywords Accountability,Basic services,Citizen engagement,Governance,Health sector,Legal empowerment,Legal instruments,Public sector
Date uploaded August 6, 2020, 07:39 (UTC)
Date modified August 12, 2020, 02:25 (UTC)