Save the date 15 May 2024

Professor Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling, SPIR UoN 

Does Training Public Employees in Ethics Enhance Integrity in Government?

UoNARI is delighted to share the date of our upcoming roundtable hosted by Prof Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling who will share evidence from a field experiment in Bangladesh.

Since the mid 2010s, Prof Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling has expanded his research to study civil service management, bureaucratic performance and anti-corruption in developing countries including Latin America, Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe. It was funded by the British Academy and the UK Department for International Development. With more than 23.000 participants, the project generated the largest cross-country survey ever conducted to identify what works in civil service management in developing countries. Prof Meyer-Sahling's current project in this area builds on the study of civil service management and anti-corruption. It examines the impact of ethics training on corruption in the civil service in Nepal and Bangladesh. The project was funded by the Global Integrity – Department for International Development Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI-ACE) Programme.

In 2022, Prof Meyer-Sahling secured funding together with Christian Schuster (PI) and Kim Sass Mikkelsen (Co-I) from a joint ESRC/FNR scheme on ‘Training Executives to Enhance Employee Engagement in Government‘. The project focuses on assessing one management practice, executive training, through a field experiment administered in collaboration with the Government of Luxembourg and will run until the end of 2025.

Chaired by Dr Carole Spary, SPIR UoN, ARI Director

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