FIGHTING CORRUPTION WORLDWIDE.

Founded in 1981, MSI is a global international development firm providing specialized short- and long-term technical assistance. Today, we manage and implement over 100 projects worldwide, including implementation of a range of analytical and field projects in democracy and governance, economic growth, organizational capacity building, human development, and natural resource management. While our work now spans many sectors, MSI remains focused on helping international donors, governments, NGOs, and local communities manage change and improve the effectiveness of development assistance.

In 2008, we expanded our global footprint by becoming part of Coffey International Development, a leading international development consulting firm. Together, we now have more than 1,400 employees, a corporate presence in 11 countries and approximately 200 projects worldwide.

ABOUT MSI

OUR CAPABILITIESMSI has implemented a wide range of anti-corruption programs:

• Administrative and Regulatory Reforms. Helping governments streamline and simplify institutions and bureaucratic procedures.

• Legal and Judicial Reforms. Supporting legal drafting, court administration, and investigative and prosecutorial training and practices.

• Public Finance Reforms. Strengthening performance and financial auditing practices, and data archiving.

• Local Governance Reforms. Implementing programs to improve the quality and predictability of public service delivery.

• Corporate Governance and Private Sector Reforms. Working with businesses and associations to implement codes of conduct, and advocating for deregulation and legal/procedural reforms.

• Multi-Sector Programs. Conducting targeted programs in health, education, environment, energy and extractive industries.

• Civil Society and Mass Media Advocacy. Building advocacy and watchdog skills, and strengthening coalitions, public-private partnerships, public awareness campaigns and investigative journalism.

• Policy and Strategy Development. Facilitating the development of program strategies for governments and donors based upon international best practices and lessons learned.

• Assessments, Monitoring and Evaluation. Conducting many countrywide and sector-specific corruption assessments and surveys, and developing valuable assessment tools that have been adopted by USAID, such as the Corruption Assessment Handbook.

Since 1996, MSi haS worked at the forefront of the anti-corruption field, iMpleMenting projectS in Many countrieS and on a regional baSiS.

GOVERNANCE REFORMS• MSI implemented the $19.5 million Millennium Challenge

Account Philippines Threshold Project, assisting the government in tackling corruption through the Office of the Ombudsman, the Revenue Integrity Protection Service, the Bureau of Internal Revenue, and Operation Run After Tax Evaders. Previously, under the Philippines Rule of Law (ROLE) project, we provided technical assistance to support anti-corruption, anti-money laundering and justice system reforms.

• In Afghanistan, MSI manages the $26.6 million USAID program to build the technical capacity of the HighOfficeofOversight, the government’s key anti-corruption agency. Our project strengthens asset declaration verification, complaints management and case investigation, anti-corruption action plan development and monitoring throughout government, as well as the development of public outreach campaigns.

• MSI manages the MCC Threshold Program for Peru, targeting reforms related to investigation and prosecution of corrupt officials and auditing of government departments.

• MSI implemented the Ecuador anti-corruption project, which decreased corruption by supporting efforts to increase transparency and accountability, improving the investigative and sanctioning capacity of government institutions, and strengthening the ethical conduct and democratic values of public officials and citizens.

• In Mexico, MSI played a central role both in establishing a nationwide program of administrative simplification in government and in bringing about the passage of the country’s first Civil Service Reform Law.

SECTORAL PROGRAMS• Post-ConflictReconstruction. A major component of the USAID-funded Tatweer Project in Iraq is corruption prevention training

for public sector managers in a post-conflict setting. Training – including anti-corruption modules –has been provided to over 100,000 civil servants. In Afghanistan, we work directly with the government’s top anti-corruption agency to build their capacity to investigate and detect corruption and refer cases to the prosecutors.

• Public Finance Management. From 2008 to 2010, we conducted the USAID-funded Djibouti Anti-corruption Program which was focused on training audit staff in the Inspector General’s Office on international standards for performance and financial audits. Similar training for auditors and procurement specialists was conducted in our Ecuador and Iraq projects.

• Economic Growth. We evaluated the impact on corruption of major customs reforms implemented in the Philippines and one-stop shops for business licensing implemented in Ukraine. In Liberia, we evaluated the impact of the Governance and Economic Management Assistance Program (GEMAP) in promoting accountability and transparency in fiscal and financial management.

• Judicial Sector. In Paraguay, we conducted a five-year project that focused on judicial reforms and spreading public awareness of these reforms via the mass media. We worked closely with the Supreme Court and Controller General’s Office (CGO) and promoted strong coordination between the CGO and Prosecutor’s Office so that corruption abuses detected by auditors would be brought directly to the court system.

• Health Sector. For USAID’s Africa Bureau, we conducted comparative systematic surveys in Benin, Tanzania and Mozambique to assess the corruption vulnerabilities of their health care delivery systems. Focus groups in each country yielded a set of prioritized health care recommendations to improve management and reduce corruption risks.

• Local Governance. We managed the Honduras Greater Transparency and Accountability of Governments project that built sustainable practices of open and transparent local governance. In Namibia, we supported local government initiatives by standardizing civil service recruitment and promotion, developing integrity systems for local authorities, strengthening internal controls, and promoting activities for greater government transparency.

CIVIL SOCIETY/MEDIA SUPPORT• MSI managed the three-year, $10 million anti-corruption

component of the MCC Threshold Program for Ukraine. This project built upon our pioneering anti-corruption project in Ukraine from the late 1990s. It promoted strengthening of civil society anti-corruption advocacy, citizen watchdog activities, media investigative reporting and corruption trend monitoring using surveys and citizen report cards.

• MSI implemented USAID’s Regional Advocacy Project in the Russian Far East. This project built upon our five-year Public-Private Partnership Against Corruption Project in Russia by strengthening civil society advocacy and legal literacy programs for improved government transparency and accountability.

• In Albania, we facilitated the establishment of a business-civil society coalition against corruption, whose membership includes local and foreign businesses, business associations, media and non-governmental organizations. The coalition mobilized many advocacy campaigns to keep the corruption issue high on the government’s agenda and provided free legal support to citizens and businesses through very effective Citizen Advocate Offices.

• In Romania, we designed and conducted a significant anti-corruption advocacy training program for major NGOs that is adaptable to other country settings.

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MSI LEADERSHIPMSI is a thought leader in the anti-corruption field. We have published two frequently referenced books: Fighting Corruption in Developing Countries (Kumarian Press, 2005) and Negotiating Peace and Confronting Corruption: Challenges for Post-Conflict Societies (U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 2011), as well as many articles in academic journals and USAID technical notes.

MSI LEADERSHIPMSI is a thought leader in the anti-corruption field. We have published two frequently referenced books: Fighting Corruption in Developing Countries (Kumarian Press, 2005) and Negotiating Peace and Confronting Corruption: Challenges for Post-Conflict Societies (U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 2011), as well as many articles in academic journals and USAID technical notes.

ASSESSMENTS & STRATEGIES • In 2009, MSI completed a multi-year assignment for USAID

that resulted in a new Corruption Assessment Handbook. Incorporating innovative approaches that allow teams to better understand the underlying causes of corruption in a country, this new methodology encourages the “mainstreaming” of anti-corruption initiatives to develop a “whole of government” approach to deal with corruption. The handbook is now available on the USAID website and is the authorized framework for conducting corruption assessments worldwide.

• Through the USAID Rapid Response Technical Assistance Task Order, MSI provides training, special studies, assessments, surveys and strategy development support in anti-corruption topics to USAID Missions worldwide. We have conducted more than a dozen corruption assessments over the past 5 years in Kosovo, Mozambique, Ukraine, Romania, Rwanda, Honduras, Jamaica, Paraguay, Morocco and Senegal, among others.

• MSI has worked closely with the Afghan High Office of Oversight to develop its new three-year Strategic Plan.

• Between 2005 and 2007, MSI facilitated five host governments in preparing their MCC Threshold Country Plans (the Philippines, Albania, Yemen, Paraguay and Niger). Each plan offered an aggressive detailed strategy and targeted activities for legal and institutional reforms to reduce corruptive opportunities, including significant civil society participation.

• In response to the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s, MSI mobilized expert teams and produced an anti-corruption strategy for Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines that fed into USAID’s economic recovery strategy. We also organized a networking conference in 1999 along with ADB and OECD which launched the Anti-corruption Initiative for Asia- Pacific.

• For USAID/Bangladesh, MSI designed a program strategy that embedded anti-corruption initiatives throughout the Mission’s portfolio. In Cameroon, we did the same. In Cambodia and the West Bank/Gaza, we conducted mainstreaming workshops for USAID program managers to help them integrate anti-corruption approaches across sectors.

MSI LEADERSHIPMSI is a thought leader in the anti-corruption field. We have published two frequently referenced books: Fighting Corruption in Developing Countries (Kumarian Press, 2005) and Negotiating Peace and Confronting Corruption: Challenges for Post-Conflict Societies (U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 2011), as well as many articles in academic journals and USAID technical notes.

• Our Corruption Assessment Handbook has been adopted by USAID worldwide as a common framework for assessing corruption vulnerabilities and developing programmatic recommendations.

• Anti-corruption training modules have been designed and applied to build capacity among local governments, civil society groups, journalists, business people, and government mid-level managers, as well as among donor program managers who want to mainstream anti-corruption themes throughout all programs in their portfolios.

• CitizenAdvocateOffices are innovative legal support units for victims of corruption. MSI pioneered and implemented these in many countries with significant results. Transparency International picked up on the idea and used its resources to implement the same model in other countries.

• Public-Private Partnerships Against Corruption have been implemented in several countries as coalitions involving government, citizen, business and media representatives to sustain demand, apply pressure, and promote joint initiatives for anti-corruption programs.

• Our diagnostic framework helps programmers and policy analysts design effective sectoral anti-corruption strategies and set appropriate priorities and programs sector-by-sector.

• MSI’s Best Practices database examines the track records of a wide range of anti-corruption initiatives to provide policy makers and practitioners with solid evidence of approaches that work, based on real experience.

• Practical anti-corruption monitoring indicators provide reliable measurement of corruption levels and assessments of anti-corruption program effectiveness.

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OUR ANTI-CORRUPTION TOOLSWe have developed many innovative anti-corruption tools that can assist host governments, implementing partners and donor organizations’ programming staff.

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OUR CLIENTS Working primarily for USAID and the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), we have also collaborated directly with international organizations, such as the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, the OSCE, the OECD and Transparency International. We have been the prime contractor for all three USAID umbrella contracts (IQCs) for anti-corruption assignments (currently ENGAGE).

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