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Searching with a thematic focus on Aid and debt, Governance in Uganda

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  Negotiating NGO management practice

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  More aid is being promised to tackle poverty, especially in Africa. This is welcome and urgently needed. However, little attention has been paid to understanding whether current aid disbursement mechanisms are appropriate to building autonomous, strong local organisations and communities.
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  Civil society, democratisation and foreign aid in Africa

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  This paper critically examines the current donor practice of funding civil society organisations as a way to influence govenment policy and to create more citizen involvement in public affairs.
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  Current procedures and policies dominating aid: building strong relationships and enabling NGOs meet their stated aims?

  NGO Practice, 2005

  Based on a 4 years of field research in Uganda, this report evaluates the relationship between NGOs and donor agencies.
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  Mapping trade policy: understanding the challenges of civil society participation

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  This paper examines the way that a range of development actors view and engage with the arena of trade policy, focusing in particular on the challenges encountered by civil society actors participating in that arena.
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  Uganda takes control of its relationships with donors

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Uganda is typically a low-income country with low levels of domestic revenue. 48 % of the government’s expenditure is provided through donor aid. Despite this high level of dependency, networks of trust between government officials and their donors have allowed the Ugandan government to have a control over the country’s development process.
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  Public expenditure tracking surveys in education

  International Institute for Educational Planning, UNESCO, 2004

  This document examines two tools for tracking public expenditure in the education sector, namely the Public Expenditure Tracking Survey (PETS) and the quantitative service delivery survey (QSDS), using case studies from Uganda, Peru and Zambia.The first chapter of this document describes actors in the education sector and the accountability relationships between them as a conceptual framework w
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  Taxation, aid and democracy: research programme 2000-2003

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2004

  This paper, based on research carried out in Namibia, Tanzania and Uganda, discusses taxation, aid and democracy in aid-dependent African countries.
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  Educating refugees in countries of first asylum: the case of Uganda

  Migration Policy Institute, 2004

  This article discusses the way an innovative new method of delivering education is seeking to provide for the future security of refugee families in Uganda. It suggests that the current model of international assistance in refugee camps and settlements tends to focus on meeting refugees’ immediate and short-term needs, neglecting longer-term goals and needs for stability and future security.
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  Politics and the PRSP approach: synthesis paper

  Overseas Development Institute, 2004

  This paper synthesises findings from four country (Bolivia, Georgia, Uganda & Vietnam) case studies on the political dimensions of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) approach.The authors argue that there are two contrasting visions to the approach behind the PRSP process as follows:The first being that it is an approach offering a potentially transformative agenda of pro-poor r
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  Rethinking participation: questions for civil society about the limits of participation in PRSPs

  ActionAid International, 2004

  This discussion paper aims to inform and provoke discussion among civil society organisations engaged in PRSP consultations.It argues that there are serious limitations and constraints to the process as it currently exists, and that the IMF and the World Bank’s focus on poverty is limited to ameliorating the social damage done by the negative impacts of their structural adjustment policies and

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