International Programs
Americas Accountability/Anti-Corruption Project
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The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) contracted C&A from 1993 through September 2006 to run the Americas’ Accountability/Anti-Corruption (AAA) Project—originally known as the Regional Financial Management Improvement Project (RFMIP). The AAA Project was at the forefront of USAID anti-corruption activities in the Latin America and Caribbean region since its inception. In its early days, the AAA Project emphasized the supply side of the anti-corruption equation—supporting government leaders in bringing about integrated financial management systems, audit capabilities, and other reforms. Later, it focused more on the demand-side—empowering citizens to demand accountability and transparency from their government leaders. Under the AAA Project’s third phase, C&A identified, compiled, documented, and disseminated anti-corruption best practices and initiated activities on new anti-corruption strategic themes, such as political-party and campaign finance and support for implementation of the Inter-American Convention Against Corruption (IACC). Under the final phase, C&A identified new ways to address administrative corruption; launching new anti-corruption strategies that complemented and augmented ongoing bilateral programs, initiatives and policy reform agendas that confronted grand corruption; and continued to assist USAID in mainstreaming anti-corruption thinking and programming across all sectors.