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  Making law in rural East Africa: SunguSungu in Kenya

  Crisis States Research Centre, LSE, 2007

  Internal security is usually seen as pre-eminently a matter for the state and its specialized institutions of legislature, police and judiciary. In the midst of growing crime and distrust of the police, “community policing” has emerged as an alternative to state security.
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  The state of the World’s toilets 2007

  Wateraid, 2007

  This report by Water Aid examines the global crisis in sanitation and sets out what needs to be done to achieve universal sanitation. The report argues that diseases caused by lack of adequate sanitation and water are the second biggest killer of children in the world.
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  Jordan Center for Public Policy Research and Dialogue

  JCPP seeks to address the growing need for an ongoing process of dialogue by conducting in-depth research on issues of critical national and regional interests, publishing studies and disseminating
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  Starting a pro-poor public private partnership for a basic urban service

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2007

  Pro-poor Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) can supply better basic services to poor communities in cities and towns. This report provides a guideline on how to start up a pro-poor PPP to deliver these service in an urban setting. It draws on concrete lessons and experiences. Four basic steps to setting up a PPP are provided:
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  PolicyLink

  This organisation focuses on issues of equitable development, housing, health and public expenditure and works in communities in part of the United States.
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  Social protection in the Arab region: the challenging concept and the hard reality

  Social Watch, 2007

  According to current trends, future prospects in the Arab region appear to point towards less protection and further marginalisation of the unemployed, the abject poor, and workers in the informal sector. Such negative projections stem from the persistence of existing budgetary constraints on social security systems and inefficient public expenditure.
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  Mapping for better accountability in service delivery

  Overseas Development Institute, 2007

  Improving access to water supply and sanitation (WSS) is not simply a question of providing financial resources or technical solutions. It is also about improving service provision and management institutions, as well as clearer and better enforced legal and regulatory frameworks. The challenge is as much about governance of the sector as it is about technical system design.
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  Is decentralization making services work for the poor?

  Asian Development Bank, 2007

  Provision of more efficient social services has largely remained an elusive goal for governments in Pakistan over the past several decades.
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  Power to the people: evidence from a randomised field experiment of a community based monitoring project in Uganda.

  Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, 2007

  This paper presents a randomised field experiment on increasing community-based monitoring. It particularly focuses on looking at whether access to, and quality of health care can be improved by strengthening the relationship of accountability between health service providers and citizens. Key points include:
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  Law in transition 2007: public-private partnerships, legal reform in Russia

  European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 2007

  Throughout the world, the use of public-private partnerships (PPPs) have become popular in recent years as states and municipalities work with the private sector to modernise and develop much-needed infrastructure. This collection of papers provides an overview of many current issues regarding private financing of public infrastructure.

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