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Identifying and deterring the theft and diversion of medicinal drugs in Malawi

IATI Identifier: US-EIN-26-0126537-gi-ace-1-9

Published on IATI
  • date_range Jan 01, 2019 - Dec 31, 2021
  • autorenew Closed (Status)

Drug theft is one of the most common and lucrative forms of public corruption within the health sector of many developing countries. In addition to the growth-inhibiting and poverty-inducing effects that accompany corruption, drug theft slows the fight against preventable diseases like malaria and bacterial infection. In collaboration with the Drug Theft Investigations Unit at the Malawi Ministry of Health, we will experimentally evaluate whether top-down audits and bottom-up community monitoring can reduce drug theft. Additionally, we introduce a novel measurement protocol that uses radio and GPS tracking devices to measure rates of theft at different levels of the medications supply chain. This allows us to move beyond existing studies of corruption that focus on changes in corruption levels to present evidence demonstrating how anti- corruption interventions displace corruption to other parts of the system. Our project directly builds on existing anti-corruption priorities among development stakeholders in Malawi.

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Sectors:
  • Anti-corruption organisations and institutions

Participating Organisations

London School of Economics and Political Science Academic, Training and Research Implementing
Global Integrity International NGO Accountable
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Government Funding

Transaction

Transaction Value Provider
Receiver
Type Date
26 GBP Global Integrity London School of Economics and Political Science Disbursement
date_range Jul 13, 2022
68,340 GBP Global Integrity London School of Economics and Political Science Disbursement
date_range Dec 14, 2020
31,317 GBP Global Integrity London School of Economics and Political Science Disbursement
date_range Jan 10, 2020
105,109 GBP Global Integrity London School of Economics and Political Science Disbursement
date_range Aug 19, 2019
204,792 GBP Provider N/A Receiver N/A Incoming Funds
date_range Jan 01, 2019

Budget

386,880 USD
  • 97,512 GBP (Valued at Jan 01, 2019)
    date_range Jan 01, 2019 - Dec 31, 2019
  • 97,512 GBP (Valued at Jan 01, 2020)
    date_range Jan 01, 2020 - Dec 31, 2020
  • 97,512 GBP (Valued at Jan 01, 2021)
    date_range Jan 01, 2021 - Dec 31, 2021
access_time Updated on Sep 07, 2023 20:18:10