Foreign economic-aid-related services

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Mobilising Data for Anti-Corruption (MoDAC) Programme summary DFID are currently in the process of designing a Business Case for a programme called Mobilising Data for Anti-Corruption (MoDAC). This programme aims to improve the quality and use of corruption data, over a four year period, to increase the number of high-level sanctions, penalties and prosecutions in corruption cases. If approved, it would fund partnerships between professional users of anti-corruption data in law enforcement, civil society, the media and private sector. Partnerships would ‘follow the data’ on specific corruption cases or high corruption risk events (such as a high-value government procurement or extractives contract). What would the programme do? We propose that MODAC would work (at least initially) in Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya and Tanzania, countries that have already been chosen by the UK as key partners in the fight against corruption when they attended the Anti-Corruption Summit in 2016. It would support partnerships between data-users in the four countries to: a) Follow the data to provide evidence to support prosecutions or sanctions on specific corruption cases or in advance of potential corruption red flags, such as a major government procurement, extractives investment, or decision on where to situate a transport link. For example, MoDAC could fund a partnership between investigative journalists, lawyers who would transform information into criminal evidence and take cases to court, and NGOs who would sustain pressure by making findings relevant to communities and following up on results. Or it could scale up the work of civic technology organisations to work with government and NGOs using open contracting data from public procurements to monitor implementation and prevent leakages. b) Analyse and disseminate extensive or complex data in user-friendly ways so that professionals in government, judiciary, civil society and the media can use it to identify and pursue corruption. MoDAC could fund a research institute to work with an oversight institution, such as the Auditor General, to improve the quality and accessibility of their reports. Or it could forge issue-based collaboration between online platforms where citizens can fact-check public commitments, data analysis hubs, and private sector mobile phone providers, to access, analyse and disseminate corruption-relevant data. Budget DFID envisage a budget ceiling of 20 000 000 GBP over 5 years subject to approval. This is the top level budget and not a reflection of the value of the resultant contracts. Purpose of the Market Engagement DFID is seeking market views on achievable results, cost drivers and the optimum delivery model for this work. These views are being sought via a survey accessible by registering interest in this programme and accessing the attachements section to retrieve the link. NOTE: No formal event is planned for the programme.