Where Next for Integrity and Anti-Corruption Trainings? Some Possible Pathways for Innovation

Empirical evidence suggests that integrity training can be effective, but this impact is highly contingent on a number of training features and contextual attributes that remain poorly understood. This results in ample opportunity for experimentation and innovation to make integrity training better. More specifically, training could be re-thought with regard to content, pedagogies, and its broader role and function within the anti-corruption ecosystem. At the content level, a stronger focus on micro-strategies of resistance in asymmetric power situations merits more attention. With regard to training pedagogies, recent work on so called commitment devices to incentivise specific behaviours offer inspiration. Finally, integrity training can be productively rethought by examining how they can be designed to seed sustainable peer support networks and how they can serve as research opportunities to better understand the integrity challenges of a particular community.