What We Do

The National Anti-Corruption Strategy serves as an integrity blueprint that guides government, public institutions, civil society, the private sector, and other stakeholders in translating the National Anti-Corruption Policy into practical implementation plans.

UNISHKA works collaboratively with national stakeholders to develop customized strategies that reflect each country’s legal framework, institutional capacity, corruption risks, governance priorities, and development objectives. These strategies result in clear national frameworks that define priority actions, responsible institutions, timelines, coordination mechanisms, and measurable indicators for combating corruption.

A well-designed National Anti-Corruption Strategy helps ensure that anti-corruption efforts are not isolated or symbolic, but coordinated, actionable, and results-oriented. It strengthens prevention, enforcement, transparency, public participation, asset recovery, institutional integrity, and accountability across government systems.

Through this process, UNISHKA supports countries in building realistic and sustainable plans of action that promote public trust, improve service delivery, protect public resources, and reinforce the rule of law.

UNISHKA attorneys are experts in developing, drafting, and/or reviewing legal and regulatory frameworks around anti-corruption legislation, access to information, and procurement and electoral systems. These legal frameworks identify gaps, inconsistencies, and implementation challenges by comparing national laws, rules, and institutional mandates against international standards and best practices.

Based on this analysis, UNISHKA develops practical recommendations to close legal and regulatory gaps, strengthen institutional accountability, and improve coherence across the anti-corruption system. This may include reforms related to prevention, enforcement, public procurement, asset declaration, conflicts of interest, whistleblower protection, beneficial ownership transparency, sanctions, and inter-agency cooperation.

In addition, UNISHKA assists national authorities in drafting and refining anti-corruption legislation, rules, regulations, and implementing instruments that support effective reform. By ensuring that legal frameworks are clear, enforceable, and aligned with national priorities, UNISHKA helps governments strengthen anti-corruption initiatives, enhance rule-of-law institutions, and build greater public confidence in governance systems.

Grounded in a country’s National Anti-Corruption Policy, Strategy, and Legal Framework, UNISHKA assists national leaders in developing, strengthening, or reforming Anti-Corruption Agencies (ACAs) that are fit for purpose and aligned with national governance needs.

UNISHKA’s support is informed by the four recognized ACA models: the Universal Model, the Investigative Model, the Parliamentary Model, and the Multi-agency Model. Through careful assessment, UNISHKA helps governments determine which model, or combination of models, best suits the country’s legal system, institutional structure, corruption risks, and reform priorities.

This assistance may include reviewing mandates, organizational structures, operational procedures, staffing needs, accountability mechanisms, inter-agency coordination, investigative powers, prevention functions, and reporting obligations. UNISHKA also has extensive experience reforming and reorganizing existing ACAs to improve their independence, efficiency, credibility, and effectiveness.

By supporting the creation and modernization of ACAs, UNISHKA helps countries build stronger institutions capable of preventing corruption, enforcing anti-corruption laws, promoting integrity, and strengthening public confidence in the national anti-corruption system.

Whistleblowing and Whistleblower Protection

UNISHKA helps both public and private institutions design, implement, and strengthen effective corruption and fraud reporting mechanisms that are secure, accessible, credible, and protective of those who report wrongdoing.

This support takes into account all key components of an effective whistleblowing system, including the legislative framework, institutional and operational environment, available reporting channels, procedures for validating information, confidentiality safeguards, case management processes, and whistleblower protection plans.

UNISHKA also assists institutions in developing clear policies and procedures that encourage reporting, prevent retaliation, and ensure that allegations are assessed and addressed in a fair, timely, and accountable manner. These mechanisms help organizations detect misconduct earlier, reduce institutional risk, and reinforce a culture of integrity.

In addition, UNISHKA provides customized whistleblowing training for employees, civil servants, oversight bodies, and the general public. These trainings are designed to educate, encourage, and enable individuals to demand accountability and transparency from their leaders, institutions, colleagues, and communities.

Public procurement is the governmental function most vulnerable to corruption globally. In the procurement process, significant public resources at risk of waste, fraud, and abuse. Because procurement directly affects infrastructure, service delivery, economic development, and public trust, strengthening procurement integrity is essential to effective governance.

UNISHKA helps governments review, assess, and improve public procurement systems by developing holistic approaches that identify corruption risks, strengthen controls, and prevent abuse across the full procurement cycle. This includes planning, tendering, evaluation, contract award, contract management, payment, monitoring, and audit processes.

In its approach, UNISHKA draws on OECD-recommended principles for improving public procurement, including integrity, transparency, stakeholder participation, accessibility, e-procurement, oversight, and control. These principles help ensure that procurement systems are fair, competitive, accountable, and resistant to manipulation.

Through legal, institutional, procedural, and operational assessments, UNISHKA supports governments in building procurement frameworks that reduce opportunities for corruption, improve value for money, promote open competition, and enhance public confidence in how public funds are managed.

Founded on the belief that endemic corruption can be ameliorated by transforming systems into bulwarks that deter corrupt practices and promote accountability, Systems Integrity Development (SID) is a pragmatic, holistic, and proactive set of proprietary tools to reduce systemic corruption by addressing internal control weakness and human factor deficiencies within an organization. The following SID tools are tailored to each specific context and can be conducted independently:

• Systems Integrity Assessment
  UNISHKA extensively maps the current operational system, engaging all key stakeholders involved in identifying corruption risks and weaknesses and consolidating information for analysis.
  
  
• Human Factor Analysis
  UNISHKA understands corruption risks in a system using human factor aspects including behavior, values, skills, and motivations, and recommends solutions to address them.
  
  

• Process Mapping
  UNISHKA employs this methodical and visual tool to understand and illustrate the workflow in a given system, identify nodes of corruption using flow diagrams and ways to eliminate them.

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• Network Link Charts
  UNISHKA conducts visual analysis on the external operational linkages of a given organization, establishing institutional connections and relationships that create nodes of corruption and demonstrate the extent of collusions.

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• Vulnerable Populations Assessment
  In accordance with its commitments under the United Nations Global Compact, UNISHKA analyzes how corruption effects vulnerable populations including gender, ethnic minorities, religious minorities, persons with
  disabilities, LGBTQI and others, promoting equitable treatment.
  
  

• Technical Capacity Assessment
  UNISHKA assesses the individual competencies of personnel within an organization as they relate to job performance. We then make recommendations for professional training to transform the individual into more responsible and accountable agents within the system.
  
  

• Infrastructure Capacity Assessment
  UNISHKA assesses workplace infrastructure, facilities, and equipment as it effects the organizations’ ability to fulfill their legal responsibilities. We then make recommendations to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the work environment.
  
  

• Organizational Capacity Assessment
  UNISHKA conducts broad-based evaluations of the organizations’ strengths and weaknesses with particular focus on internal governance, identifies issues that impact transparency and accountability, and recommends solutions for improvement.
  
  

• Standard Operating Procedures
  UNIHSKA establishes clear and precise sets of instructions for actors within given organizations to ensure transparent and accountable compliance in operational processes. This is completed in conjunction with our process mapping.
  
  

• Operations Manual
  UNISHKA streamlines and customizes manuals of operation to enable given organizations to perform more efficiently and effectively guided by the general principles of integrity, transparency and accountability. Each manual includes: gathering of facts, activity documentation, workflow diagraming and analysis, support systems assessment, process modeling, process improvement opportunities, support system enhancement, and recommendations.

UNISHKA conducts detailed investigations into allegations involving corrupt officials where credible information and strong probable cause have been provided by informants, witnesses, or other reliable sources.

Employing a combination of HUMINT and OSINT, UNISHKA is able to identify and engage reputable sources, witnesses, and subject-matter contacts who can provide relevant information, context, and supporting evidence. This local insight is combined with the expertise of UNISHKA’s global pool of seasoned investigators to examine allegations with professionalism, discretion, and methodological rigor.

UNISHKA’s investigative approach may include source development, witness interviews, document review, open-source intelligence, asset tracing, corruption-risk analysis, and the verification of facts across multiple channels. Each investigation is designed to assess the credibility of allegations, identify patterns of misconduct, and determine whether significant corruption concerns are present.

These efforts often result in Reports on Significant Corruption, which provide decision-makers with well-organized findings, supporting analysis, and actionable recommendations. By delivering reliable investigative assessments, UNISHKA helps strengthen accountability, support anti-corruption enforcement, and promote integrity within public institutions.

Integrity testing is a specialized anti-corruption tool used to assess whether public officials act ethically, lawfully, and in accordance with their official duties when exposed to controlled corruption-risk situations. When conducted within a clear legal framework and under proper authorization, integrity testing can help identify misconduct, deter corrupt behavior, and strengthen accountability within public institutions.

UNISHKA supports authorities in developing and implementing lawful, proportionate, and carefully managed integrity testing activities for officials who are suspected of corruption or for institutions exposed to high corruption risks. These activities may include targeted or random testing, lifestyle reviews, close monitoring, verification of financial and professional conduct, analysis of associations, and other indicators of possible corrupt activity.

UNISHKA’s approach emphasizes legality, confidentiality, evidence integrity, human rights safeguards, and institutional accountability. Each activity is designed to ensure that findings are credible, properly documented, and suitable for informing disciplinary, administrative, or investigative action where appropriate.

Through integrity testing, UNISHKA helps governments detect vulnerabilities, assess the integrity of officials, strengthen internal controls, and promote a culture of honesty, professionalism, and public trust.

UNISHKA offers courses on anti-corruption and a wide variety of topics to educate scholars, practitioners and activists on the science and practice of anti-corruption.

• Anti-Corruption Principles and Practices

UNISHKA offers a 1-2 week fundamental course on anti-corruption that covers science and theories as well as practical information that every anti-corruption advocate, specialist or activist should know and understand. Topics include but not limited to history, causes, effects and manifestations of corruption; policy and strategy, anti-corruption agencies, activism, and international resources.

• Anti-Corruption Thematic Training

UNISHKA offers a 1-week customized training and courses on anti-corruption as it relates to specific sectors, taught by international sectoral experts e.g., gender education, health, sports, environment, elections, etc.

• OSINT Training for Media and Activists

UNISHKA offers a special foundational training course designed specifically on open-source intelligence (OSINT) to teach media practitioners and activists how to use the internet to collect and analyze data that can be used to investigate corruption and other illicit activities.

• Compliance Systems Training for Corporations

Businesses and organizations risk reputational damage, major losses, sanctions, penalties, suspension and even bankruptcy for certain regulatory violations. UNISHKA offers customized training to help institutions and corporations comply with both internal and external rules and regulations and ensure both management and concerned employees are knowledgeable and responsible in enforcing applicable laws, rules, and regulations.

• Cooperation with Law Enforcement Agencies

Grand corruption cases (e.g., money-laundering) are often complex and transnational in nature, and thus, requires collective efforts across international agencies. These entail collaboration among the police, customs, national security services, crime and anti-corruption agencies and border guards on cross-cutting law-enforcement issues such as information/intelligence sharing, analysis, investigations and even asset recovery. UNISHKA provides training/briefing on bilateral and multilateral frameworks and avenues to equip institutions with knowledge and skills to address transnational corruption cases.

• Forensic Auditing Training

UNISHKA offers a special foundational training course designed specifically on open-source intelligence (OSINT) to teach media practitioners and activists how to use the internet to collect and analyze data that can be used to investigate corruption and other illicit activities.

• Anti-Bribery/Understanding Corruption on the Supply and Demand Side Training

UNISHKA offers a special foundational training course designed specifically on
open-source intelligence (OSINT) to teach media practitioners and activists how to use the internet to collect and analyze data that can be used to investigate corruption and other illicit activities.