Global Integrity was an independent, nonprofit organization tracking governance and corruption trends around the world using local teams of researchers and journalists to monitor openness and accountability.
Global Integrity's reporting has been cited by over 50 newspapers worldwide,[1] and is used by the World Bank, USAID, Millennium Challenge Corporation and other donor agencies to evaluate aid priorities.
[4][5] Unlike traditional charities, Global Integrity was a hybrid organization that seeks to generate earned revenue to support its public-interest mission.
[8] The resulting data allows policymakers, private industry, non-governmental organizations and the general public to identify specific strengths and weaknesses in various countries' governmental institutions.
In August 2002 the Open Society Institute (a private philanthropic foundation) awarded the center a $1 million grant, which resulted in a 25-country study released in April 2004.
[citation needed] 25-nation field test: Global Integrity's 2004 report – tracking the extent of openness, accountability and governance in 25 countries – took more than two years to produce; its team included approximately 200 researchers, editors, Web designers, social scientists, journalists, methodology experts and peer-review panelists.
Local teams of social scientists, journalists and analysts in each country collected and reviewed data for 80 Integrity Indicators, divided over six broad categories.