Foreign Sponsored Development Projects in Africa : The Dialogue between International and African Judicial Integrity Projects

Anti-corruption activity focused on the judiciary in Africa represents one interesting example of the dialogue between international and national activity in foreign sponsored development projects in Africa. In this paper, we look at the multiple interactions between international legal and empirical work in fighting judicial corruption, the institutional innovation of "social cooperation mechanisms", international co-ordination of cooperation through judicial leadership groups, and on-the-ground implementation in Nigeria. Lessons and implications of these linkages are generalized to other types of development projects