New research: Addressing Illicit Financial Flows in East and Southern Africa

This research paper forms the second phase of the SOC ACE project “Unlocking the black box of political will on IFFs: going beyond technical responses”. Drawing from an evidence review, the research project initially proposed the ‘IFFs pyramid’ framework, to explain the three dominant means by which IFFs are enabled, moved and held: financial flows, trade flows and informal flows.

In this second phase, the project tests the use and applicability of this framework in East and Southern Africa and the Mekong region (see Mekong paper here).