Voies pour cibler la corruption dans le domaine des ressources renouvelables : Un résumé des données

The report analyzes the impact of corruption on renewable resource management through case studies in Madagascar, Peru, and Vietnam. It argues that anti-corruption efforts often fail because they are treated as secondary, technical goals rather than central political challenges. The document highlights how corruption facilitates environmental damage by bypassing laws and enabling illegal resource extraction. Key findings suggest that community-based management and technical solutions like e-payments are insufficient without addressing structural power dynamics, land insecurity, and the global nature of resource supply chains. The report concludes with five recommendations for conservation practitioners and donors, emphasizing risk management, donor coordination, support for civil society, protection of indigenous defenders, and the creation of global data systems for transnational law enforcement.

• Corruption facilitates environmental degradation by allowing actors to bypass laws, regulations, and policies intended to prevent environmental harm, often through bribes for impact studies or collusion with forest guards.
• In Madagascar, efforts to use community-based resource management as an anti-corruption strategy failed due to contradictory definitions of corruption, externally defined interventions, and insufficient empowerment of local actors, with low payments failing to incentivize conservation.
• In the Peruvian Amazon, community forest management (GCF) is hindered by land insecurity caused by long administrative procedures and historical neglect, as well as violence and corruption from criminal organizations involved in land grabbing and illegal gold and timber extraction.
• In Vietnam, while e-payments for forest environmental services (PSEF) show potential to reduce corruption, their effectiveness is limited by the continued coexistence of cash payments.
• Anti-corruption is typically a secondary objective in resource governance projects, leading to a lack of explicit targets and a tendency for project designers to rely on erroneous assumptions about how corruption operates in specific contexts.
• Interventions often fail because they adopt a technical rather than a political perspective, ignoring the underlying power struggles and the capture of subnational public authorities by specific economic interests.
• National, time-limited aid projects are insufficient to combat resource corruption because the trade and financing of renewable materials are global, and corrupt networks can simply wait for project cycles to end before resuming illegal activities.

APA

Williams, D. A. (2023). Voies pour cibler la corruption dans le domaine des ressources renouvelables : Un résumé des données. WWF International. https://www.worldwildlife.org/documents/289/8ml5mvzrkz_Pathways_Paper_French.pdf

Chicago

Williams, David Aled. Voies pour cibler la corruption dans le domaine des ressources renouvelables : Un résumé des données. WWF International, 2023. https://www.worldwildlife.org/documents/289/8ml5mvzrkz_Pathways_Paper_French.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{williams2023voies, author = {Williams, David Aled}, title = {{Voies pour cibler la corruption dans le domaine des ressources renouvelables : Un résumé des données}}, institution = {WWF International}, year = {2023}, month = jun, url = {https://www.worldwildlife.org/documents/289/8ml5mvzrkz_Pathways_Paper_French.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }