Fighting Fraud and Corruption in the Humanitarian and Global Development Sector

Oliver May (Deloitte, Australia)

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Routledge
27 May 2016

Politics & government; Economics; Sales & marketing; Public ownership & nationalisation; Jurisprudence & general issues

There are an estimated 40,000 international Non-Government Organisations (NGOs), working in an enormous global aid industry; official development assistance alone reached £90bn in 2014. This is supplemented by huge voluntary giving – the UK public, for example, give around £1bn a year to overseas causes.

These organisations face a unique challenge from fraud and corruption. Operating in the world’s most under-developed and fragile environments, with minimal infrastructure and trust-based cultures, the risk is high. And, being wholly reliant on donors and supporters for income, so are the stakes.

Researchers make different estimates of the scale of the problem facing the sector. Some research implies that losses to the global aid budget caused by occupational fraud and abuse may be in the billions of pounds, while those to the British public's voluntary overseas donations could be in the tens of millions.

For many sector professionals working in the developing world, these estimates are readily believable. Fighting Fraud and Corruption in the Humanitarian and Global Development Sector by Oliver May is a timely, accessible and relevant how-to guide, which explores the scale and nature of the threat, debunks pervasive myths, and shows readers how to help their NGOs to better deter, prevent, detect and respond to fraud and corruption.

By: Oliver May (Deloitte Australia)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 476g
ISBN: 9781472453143
ISBN 10: 147245314X
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 27 May 2016
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Oliver May is the Head of Counter-Fraud for Oxfam GB, where he leads this international aid organisation's efforts to reduce financial abuse (including fraud, theft, bribery, money-laundering, terrorist financing/aid diversion and nepotism) to an absolute minimum across its 54 operating countries, 4000 staff, 20,000 volunteers and GBP369m annual budget. He has conducted counter-fraud work throughout the developing world, from Haiti to Afghanistan. Oliver is an accredited criminal investigator, an accredited crime analyst, and is privileged to have undertaken a range of relevant courses including disclosure and the investigation of financial crime. He has the dubious claim to fame that a SOCA project he worked on in West Africa became the subject of one of Wikileak's released US cables!