Fighting Fraud and Corruption in the Humanitarian and Global Development Sector

<p>There are an estimated 40000 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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>For many sector professionals working in the developing world these estimates are readily believable. <em>Fighting Fraud and Corruption in the Humanitarian and Global Development Sector</em> 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.</p>