CILC is an independent international council devoted to the study of corruption and to fighting it: integrity in public procurement, transparency, accountability and legal cooperation between States.
The International Council for the Fight against Corruption brings together lawyers, researchers and public procurement specialists around a shared objective: to produce rigorous evidence and workable standards that reduce corruption in the management of public resources.
To analyse the concrete mechanisms of corruption and to propose legal and institutional responses that withstand technical scrutiny.
Corruption crosses borders. Our work is comparative and rests on the multilateral instruments in force, starting with UNCAC.
Independence, methodological rigour, transparency about our own sources and funding, and open publication.
Legal and documentary analysis, case studies and operational typologies by stage of the procurement cycle.
The leadership of the Council is answerable for its research programme, for the independence of its publications and for representing the organisation before institutions and international bodies.
Chairs the Council, directs its research programme and represents the organisation before public institutions, universities and international bodies. Author of the Council's first two publications.
Assists the Presidency and coordinates the Council's areas of work, its technical cooperation and the open-access publication of its studies.
Each area combines research, legal analysis and technical cooperation with public and academic institutions.
Risk diagnosis, typologies of conduct and evaluation of integrity policies.
Integrity across the purchasing cycle: planning, tendering, award and performance.
Access to information, open data and effective institutional control.
Protection frameworks, secure reporting channels and safeguards against retaliation.
Multilateral instruments, mutual legal assistance and asset recovery.
Methodology, typologies and comparative studies underpinning all the areas above.
Develops a stage-based typology of corruption mechanisms in public procurement and distinguishes mechanisms from observable risk indicators. The catalogue contains 30 mechanisms across ten stages of the procurement cycle and six functional clusters, each classified by its signal carrier: an external participant, an audit body, or a person inside the contracting authority. The empirical analysis draws on a monitoring register covering 643 procedures, 531 of them completed.
Dzianis Limarau · Report, 15 pages, English · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21939393
Introduces the category of the external reporter: the person who challenges restrictive tender requirements is almost always a market participant outside the contracting authority, and falls outside both the review channel and the whistleblower protection regimes. The study compares three groups of jurisdictions and traces the origin of that gap to UNCAC, between its Articles 9 and 33.
Dzianis Limarau · Report, 8 pages, English · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21855670
The list reflects only work actually published by the Council. Every study is deposited with a DOI and released in open access with its full text and methodology.
Get notified of new publications →The Council maintains a monitoring register of public procurement procedures that underpins its empirical research. We invite companies and suppliers to contribute their data on tenders, restrictive requirements and challenges, and to access the aggregate results of the analysis. Participation is voluntary and data are handled in aggregated, anonymised form.
Establishment of the Council as an asociación civil, adoption of its statutes, of its framework of independence and of its six initial areas of work.
The Council's first report: the protection gap facing those who challenge restrictive requirements in tender documentation.
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The Council's second report: a typology of 30 mechanisms by stage of the procurement cycle, with risk indicators.
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