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  An overview of decentralisation and local governance structures in the Pacific region

  Pacific Institute of Advanced Studies in Development and Governance, University of the South Pacific (USP), Fiji, 2004

  This paper examines decentralisation and intergovernmental relations in the Pacific region, asking to what extent local government is participatory, effective in delivering services, and independent from central government. It draws on a 1985 book (Decentralisation in the South Pacific, edited by P. Larmour and R.
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  Public sector reform and demand for human resources for health

  Human Resources for Health, 2004

  This article, from Human Resources for Health, considers the effect of fiscal reform and the introduction of decentralisation and market mechanisms on human resources in the health sector. Findings show that these reforms often result in ‘corporatised’ institutions, with reductions in the workforce as health services are contracted out, or increased short-term and temporary employment contracts.
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  Aid for self-help effort?: a sustainable alternative route to basic education in northern Ghana

  Journal of International Cooperation in Education, 2004

  This paper analyses a NGO education program, School for Life (SFL) in Northern Ghana. The paper examines the extent to which the activities of the NGO are actually promoting self-help efforts in sustaining an aid initiated basic education programme.It specifically asks what happens when the programme phases out - is the initiative sustainable?
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  Social participation in the development of mutual health organizations in Senegal

  Partners for Health Reformplus, 2004

  This study from Partners for Health Reformplus examines the role that social participation plays in the creation and function of mutual health organisations (MHOs). The article outlines a conceptual framework for inputs, processes and outcomes of social participation in MHOs and provides a set of criteria with which to assess this participation.
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  The impacts of decentralization on health behaviors in Uganda

  MEASURE Evaluation, 2003

  This paper from Measure studies the impacts of a public sector decentralisation programme on the demand for health care in Uganda in the 1990s. The authors examine how local allocation decisions impact upon individual-level health behaviours. Ultimately, the goal of the paper is to determine whether decentralisation can actually help to improve the health status of the population.
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  Lessons learned on donor support to decentralisation and local governance

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2004

  This study examines aid programmes geared towards decentralisation and local governance support.
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  Decentralisation in South Africa: too many chiefs and not enough democrats?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Decentralisation is recognised as central to efforts in South Africa to improve the delivery of public services, to combat poverty and to develop parts of the country neglected by the apartheid regime. Despite the emphasis given to popular participation in government speeches and reports, in practice rural people’s influence on policy processes affecting them remain weak.
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  Promoting rural and regional development and poverty reduction: the role of urban centres

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  More than half of the developing world’s urban population lives in small and medium urban centres. These centres also play an important role for rural households and rural producers and enterprises. Are policy-makers ignoring the contribution small market towns and administrative centres can make to local economic development and to poverty reduction?
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  Wasting wastewater: new scope for decentralised management and wastewater re-use?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Informal settlements on the outskirts of urban areas often lack adequate infrastructure and administrative coverage. Moves towards decentralising wastewater management systems may provide new chances for responding to the needs of the peri-urban poor and offer opportunities for providing services that combine sanitation with effective reuse of wastewater.
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  Close control - malaria control and the decentralisation of treatment in Colombia

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Do disease control programmes suffer following health sector reform?   What impact have such changes in Latin America had on the incidence and control of malaria?   In Colombia, researchers from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the Instituto Colombiano de Medicina Tropical, Columbia, investigated these concerns and sought to identify lessons for future malaria control policy.

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