ANCORAGE-NET is an online research network of anti-corruption agencies (ACAs) whose primary aim is to provide comprehensive and easily accessible information about the format, functioning and activities of these bodies to practitioners and analysts in the field of corruption control.
Anti-corruption agencies are public bodies of a durable nature responsible for the fight against corruption and a reduction in the opportunity structures for such behaviour/practice through preventive and/or repressive strategies.
The network represents the first attempt to provide an internet database with substantive country-based and comparative institutional information on various ACAs in Europe and other parts of the world. Further to the primary data collected and analysed and the direct links to the agencies’ websites, the ANCORAGE-NET portal also offers an easily accessible country-based repository of anti-corruption legislation, news, survey results, reports, and research directly or indirectly relating to ACAs.
By widely disseminating this information, it is hoped that ACAs gradually anchor their activities in civil society and bring about knowledge-based, innovative and integrated solutions to corruption control.