Global Anti-Corruption Consortium

Since 2016, the Global Anti-Corruption Consortium (GACC) has successfully accelerated the fight against corruption by combining the investigative journalism of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) with the civil society advocacy of Transparency International (TI). By bringing together two complementary networks, including OCCRP’s 55 member centers and TI’s 100-plus national chapters, GACC has assembled a global coalition well-suited to tackling corruption by breaking down the silos that traditionally separate journalists, advocates, and other anti-corruption stakeholders. A 2021 external evaluation found that GACC’s work led to a total of 228 real-world impacts during its first four years alone, and noted that five times as many outcomes were generated when OCCRP and TI worked together as opposed to on their own. To date, the GACC has helped bring about more than $230 million in seized assets and fines, $330 million in assets frozen, 17 high-level resignations or sackings, and nearly 100 arrests. This work is made possible thanks to financial support from the governments of Denmark, Slovakia, Taiwan, the U.K. and the U.S., and the Open Society Foundations. Building on this foundation, we seek to scale up the GACC model. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken endorsed GACC as a proven initiative at last year’s Summit for Democracy and called on others to help raise $10 million in new funding by the next Summit in 2023.