Service delivery
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- Decentralised disaster risk management training
- ( Duryog Nivaran: South Asia Network for Disaster Risk Reduction , 2009)
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The concept of decentralised disaster risk management (DDRM) derives its insights from community-based disaster management (CBDM) in South Asia. As well as community ownership and leadership i...
- Producing internationally comparable statistics on the information economy
- ( United Nations Asian Pacific Training Centre for Information and Communication Technology for Development , 2009)
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The demand for statistics on information and communication technologies (ICT) is continuously increasing as more countries seek to design, monitor and review national policies. This manual has...
- Gathering data on children in formal care
- ( D. Swales (ed);N. McMillan (ed) / Child Rights Information Network , 2009)
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Without data on the situation of children in care, it is difficult for local child welfare authorities and national governments to monitor progress in preventing separation, promoting re-...
- Measuring and tracking the performance of local governments in Indonesia
- ( World Bank Research , 2008)
- Indonesia has been transformed from a highly centralised country into one of the most decentralised countries. Since 2001, local governments (LGs) have become the main drivers of public service delive...
- Participatory approaches to integrated risk management
- ( A. Holloway;R. Roomaney / PreventionWeb , 2008)
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Residents of informal settlements often bear the brunt of extreme weather and associated flooding. This guide is intended to strengthen participatory risk assessment capabilities for a wide range o...
- Community based planning and the Integrated Development Plan (IDP) in South Africa
- ( I. Goldman;S. Chimbuya;K. Muthala / Khanya-aicd , 2005)
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Community-based planning (CBP) is a specific form of ward planning involving all people in a ward which has been designed to promote community action and make the Integrated Development Plan (IDP) ...
- How to address and prevent land conflicts
- ( B. Wehrmann / Deutsche Gessellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit , 2008)
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Land conflicts often have extensive negative effects on economic, social, spatial and ecological development. This is especially true in developing countries and countries in transition, where land...
- How to improve water governance and water management
- ( P. Moriarty;C. Batchelor;F.T. Abd-Alhadi / EMPOWERS Partnership Programme , 2007)
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Water is an increasingly scarce and contested resource around the world, particularly in the Middle East. There is general agreement about the need to improve water governance - the process of maki...
- Making the most of community based worker systems for effective service delivery
- ( P. Mbullu / Khanya-aicd , 2007)
- Many communities in Africa are largely dependent on services provided by local people rather than by external agencies, including government. Such services include traditional birth attendants, tradit...
- How to track public expenditure
- ( Hakikazi Catalyst, Tanzania , 2008)
- Public Expenditure Tracking (PET) is ‘following the money’ from where it is disbursed by central government authorities, through local government, to end users such as schools and clinics....
