ABSTRACT
This chapter continues the author’s work with the Aga Khan Foundation as Director of the Civil Society Programme in eight countries in Asia and Africa. One of the foundations of this programme was “building a civil society” and he incorporated this thinking into the Institutional Integrity Programme as a way of working on anti-corruption – working with the range of institutions within the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) to produce an Integrity Guidance Manual, a large number of comic books on ethical dilemmas and how to resolve them, and seven short videos from Kenya on questions of corruption in school, through the metaphor of sport.
All parties agreed that the AKDN institutions had integrity, but all also agreed that they existed in countries where corruption was endemic. The idea was that playing out alternative scenarios to corrupt behaviour through non-threatening and entertaining comic books could “vaccinate” people against the prevailing norms.
The Integrity Guidance Manual was designed to help organisations institutionalise integrity and make it part of their organisational DNA. The school-based anti-corruption behaviour videos showed scenarios where sports-based ethical issues occurred, and then asked students to consider if such issues occurred in the larger nation.
