Since 1965, PADCO has provided a wide range of expert technical services to governments and private sector clients in developing and transitional countries around the world. Policy implementation, legal/regulatory reform and privatization, urban planning, administrative/financial management, municipal decentralization, civil society capacity building, post-conflict and post-crisis reconstruction, environmental resource management, and pension reform make up PADCO's core technical activities. PADCO also has extensive experience managing multifaceted USAID contracts involving multiple subcontractors. In the past 10 years, PADCO has managed nine USAID IQCs, through which we have implemented more than 450 task orders. PADCO has worked in more than 130 countries, including more than 25 in Africa.

ACCORD is a South African-based conflict management NGO with a tested focus on conflict prevention and conflict resolution in Africa. ACCORD's comprehensive peace model, now officially recognized by the UN as a viable model for Africa, is based on three pillars: intervention, training, and research. ACCORD is currently training peacekeepers in all Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries, and providing conflict analysis, research, management, diplomacy, and gender training in both the Great Lakes and Horn of Africa regions. Since 1993, its yearly Africa Peace Award has recognized critical efforts of South African individuals to turn conflict into peace.

AMEG is a small, woman-owned firm that provides a range technical services on global humanitarian and economic development projects. Private sector development design, implementation, and evaluation; market surveys; export management; international trade promotion; privatization; specification development; equipment maintenance studies and services; warehousing and inventory management; transport and cargo handling; port operations; commodity arrival accounting and end use; emergency food relief plans and programs; logistics systems; and turnkey procurement and supply management programs form AMEG's core competency.

WCL's programs encompass the core human rights issues faced by developing countries today through several policy institutes-the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (which has set up a pro bono international human rights legal clinic); an International Justice project providing technical assistance through a legal information clearinghouse to promote human rights observance and to develop alternatives to capital punishment; an international race, gender, and ethnicity project in the Americas; and a Women and International Law Program. WCL's focus also includes international environmental and freedom of information legislation and a War Crimes Research Office.

As one of the largest nongovernmental, nonsectarian humanitarian relief organizations, CARE-USA is 1 of 11 international confederations overseeing anti-poverty programs across 60 countries, with 90% of its funds going directly for program support. CARE promotes social justice and tolerance through community development, education, expanded literacy, clean water, and sustainable local development through an overall commitment to democracy and the involvement of poor people in public decision making. CARE believes that only by confronting the root causes of poverty-powerlessness and lack of education, voice, and opportunity-will societies find lasting developmental solutions and individuals dignified lives.

E&Y is a professional services firm that includes development of financial audits, accounting, fraud examination, business process, and operational risk management. E&Y's anti-corruption framework focuses on education, legal compliance, enforcement, and regulatory oversight. E&Y can follow money-laundering's pernicious effects on formal institutions through special forensic and financial fraud investigative capabilities. E&Y's approach uses a Gap Analysis, consisting of diagnostic assessments, governance and organizational structure reviews, and technology systems analyses, and Program and Solution, Implementation and Teaming, and Sustaining Services phases. E&Y provides detailed plans for implementation of new global initiatives involving continuous advisory oversight and compliance, rather than simply create new laws, which then go unenforced.

Founded in 1990, FBA-DDI provides legal information and education around the world, thereby promoting global rule of law and implementation of market principles through an organization of more than 15,000 lawyers. With a focus on public sector institution building, FBA-DDI harnesses the legal expertise of U.S. lawyer-volunteers from government, private practitioners, and corporate counsel with a broad geographic and subject matter range.

Fordham University's recently created Institute for Ethics and Economic Policy (IEEP)'s corruption information exchange project promotes public education about the harm caused by corruption by acquainting the public with successful corruption-fighting methods.

With a focus on the Western hemisphere, IAD is a premier center for policy analysis, exchange, and communication throughout 21 countries in the Americas and the Caribbean, mobilizing political support for cooperative responses to common problems and opportunities. Nine IAD members have served as presidents of their countries, and more than a dozen have served at the cabinet level. The Sol M. Linowitz Forum assembles this group once every two years to address the most important issues affecting the Americas, and its recommendations for governments, international organizations, and private groups on hemispheric affairs are published and disseminated widely.

As an autonomous international academic institution created in 1980 under an agreement between the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the Government of Costa Rica, IIDH specializes in human rights education, promoting access to justice, and political participation through civil society participation programs, with a focus on gender equity and ethnic diversity in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Through research, public discourse, and corporate social responsibility, IGE promotes ethical behavior in individuals, institutions, and nations using its Ethical Fitness methodology, to advise civil society organizations, government officials, journalists, and the private sector in anti-corruption education programs.

Internews fosters independent media through training in standards and practices of professional journalism; innovative television, radio, and Internet programming; and Internet content. Internews projects currently span Europe and Eurasia, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Africa, Western Europe, and the United States in 43 countries. Since 1992, Internews has trained more than 23,600 media professionals in the former Soviet Union, the Balkans, the Middle East, Africa, Southeast Asia, and Afghanistan in broadcast journalism and station management, working with more than 2,200 nongovernmental TV and radio stations, 26 independent national broadcast networks, and 40 media associations. Its original programs have reached a potential audience of 297 million viewers and listeners worldwide.

Created in 1973, ISCV works to promote civic idealism and public-private partnerships between governments and citizens that strengthen community development, common values, and grassroots political participation in the democratic process.

NBCC is a nonpartisan chamber of commerce dedicated to economically empowering and sustaining African-American communities within the United States and interacting with the global African diaspora through 190 affiliated chapters throughout the United States, the Bahamas, Brazil, Colombia, Ghana, and Jamaica.

Staffed by a former judge, a court manager, a criminal justice researcher, and lawyers, the NCSC's International Division's programs focus on comprehensive legal reform, including court administration, with a particular emphasis on promoting judicial integrity and combating corruption. NCSC has managed contracts for both USAID and the U.S. Department of Justice. NCSC has carried out more than 70 assignments in Croatia, Mexico, Mongolia, Mozambique, Nepal, Nicaragua, Paraguay, the Philippines, and Serbia. Twenty-four foreign governments and organizations have also contracted directly with NCSC for assistance services in the form of information, research, legal training, and technology development. NCSC's Best Practices Institute brings organizational focus and research on the increasingly global aspects of the administration of justice.

NCSL advises global parliaments at both national and sub-national levels on the mechanics of federalism, the workings of the representative process, and legislative transparency to strengthen links between the electorate and its institutions. NCSL addresses multisectoral legislative areas, including international trade, economic development, job creation, environmental protection, anti-drug trafficking, and immigration reform. NCSL has long-standing relationships with the German, Brazilian, Italian, and South African parliaments, and has conducted legislative exchanges with Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Guatemala, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Namibia, Nicaragua, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Taiwan, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Pact facilitates organizational development and professional NGO leadership for emerging and established NGOs and networks around the world through training, mentoring, and small grants administration. Pact encourages strong grassroots community development, and promotes local ownership of programs and cooperative relationships with donors, governments, and the private sector. Managing more than 3,000 USAID subgrants worth more than $41 million, Pact has exercised significant grant management and financial oversight, with continuous monitoring, review, and compliance with OMB circulars.

RWI is an established Swedish academic human rights, education, and research organization, promoting international law and human rights development across the globe. Its core competencies include long-term capacity building for human rights organizations, NGO oversight groups, and governmental institutions, including police, prosecutorial, correctional, and judicial bodies complying with international law and conventions, and training media, which frequently oversee government observance of human rights and other integrity-based law and practice.

LDP (formerly Local Democracy in Poland) is a think tank within Rutgers University's Center for Russian, Central, and East European Studies. The program is devoted to strengthening local self-government in the post-communist region. Through training-of-trainer programs and research on federalism and participatory government, LDP is building partnerships between governments and NGOs and promoting stronger public ownership of the policy-making process in once-authoritarian states.

A leading contractor to numerous federal, state, and local criminal justice agencies, including the U.S. Department of Defense, SAIC provides systems development, information systems, and technology management to promote crime and fraud-prevention, and promotes accountability in diverse institutional and organizational settings.

As part of a new political wave in Korea, the Mayor of Seoul established a model anti-corruption "sunshine" government campaign, which included a transparent, on-line system of monitoring applications for business licensing, opening up activities of key civil servants and departments, which have led to decreased incidents of bribery in the day-to-day transactions of a complex urban government.

TA offers business planning, market analysis, acquisition services, risk and competition analysis, export assistance, and targeted industry/market reports across a variety of sectors, industries, and uses.

TRAFFIC promotes international cooperation through hundreds of multilateral environmental agreements regulating the harvesting and global trade in wild species. The TRAFFIC Network develops effective applications of policy that directly combat corruption while conserving wild species and habitats, such as cross-border monitoring, enforcement of wildlife laws and treaties, community support for biodiversity, and environmentally responsible business development of timber, fish, and wildlife resources-all known for high incidences of corruption and resource mismanagement.

TSG strengthens access to justice for the poor, women, and other marginalized populations in developing countries. Key technical assistance for USAID has included promoting indigent defense, administrative process review, citizen appeal rights, due process, training legal professionals in new adversarial legal systems, and developing legal aid institutions and networks in Chile, China, and elsewhere.

A 50-year-old education-oriented NGO, WEI provides literacy, maternal and child health, reproductive heath, and HIV/AIDS education through civil society organizations and the private sector, working in more than 50 countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, as well as the United States. With a strong focus on individual development; capacity building in partner institutions; poverty alleviation; grassroots, community, regional, and national development, WEI promotes equal partnerships based on mutual interest and trust and is committed to a focus on promoting integrity in education systems in developing states.

Known worldwide by its panda logo, WWF is the largest privately supported global conservation organization, investing in more than 13,100 projects in 157 countries, with a conservation and preservation orientation and a strong focus on global corruption as one of the most significant threats to global biodiversity and environmental sustainability. WWF will focus on systemic environmental resource corruption as a root cause of violence and conflict.