Topic Guide: Corruption in Service Delivery

Topic guides are a series of publications developed by the Anti-Corruption Helpdesk on key corruption and anti-corruption issues. They provide an overview of the current anti-corruption debate and a list of the most up to date and relevant studies and resources on a given topic.

This topic guide explores corruption in service delivery in general terms. It serves as an introduction to three other topic guides which assess corruption risks in the health, education and water and sanitation sectors, looking at challenges involved in both service provision and infrastructure provision as key components of public service delivery. Some issues covered, although cutting across the whole public sector, are particularly relevant to service delivery (for example, management of human resources and decentralisation).

The other three topic guides can be found here:

1. Topic Guide on Corruption in Education Services
2. Topic Guide on Corruption in Health Services
3. Topic Guide on Corruption in Water and Sanitation Services