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  Development of administrative and financial management capacity for sector-wide approaches (SWAPs): the experience of the Bangladesh Health Sector

  HLSP Institute, UK, 2001

  The health sector programme in Bangladesh – known as the Health and Population Sector Programme (HPSP) – aims to ensure that government action and resources make a cost-effective contribution to the priority health needs of the poor, particularly women and children.
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  Orientation and training seminars for agency staff: sector-wide approaches for health in a changing environment

  HLSP Institute, UK, 2002

  This handbook, produced by HLSP, is intended to be used to familiarise agency staff with the sector-wide approach (SWAp) through providing modules which address several SWAp-related issues.
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  Sector wide programmes and poverty reduction

  Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure, ODI, 2001

  Improving the access to services by poor and marginal groups is a strong or central objective of most of the sector wide programmes reviewed in this working paper.
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  Harnessing the power of incentives: a framework for increasing aid effectiveness by design

  Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector, University of Maryland, Department of Economics, 2002

  The authors present a conceptual framework called 'Harnessing the Power of Incentives' and include techniques that USAID may use both to reduce the risk of having their interventions “hijacked” or blunted by uncooperative collaborators as well as to turn these embedded incentives to their own advantage.The framework comprises several levels of analysis, each addressing different aspects of the
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  Governance conditionality and the reform of multilateral development finance: the roleof the Group of Eight

  Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, USA, 2002

  This paper sets out to examine the international financial institutions' (IFIs’) efforts at strengthening good governance in developing countries and emerging markets.The debate on the role of IFIs has thus far mainly focused on the quantitative aspect of conditionality, oscillating between concerns over how much is too much and how much is enough.
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  Synthesis report on development agency policies and perspectives on programme-based approaches

  Sector Wide Approaches in the Health Sector, 2002

  The increasing prominence of programme-based approaches (PBAs) as a preferred aid modality is widely seen as a step forward in relation to the earlier project-based approaches, but it has raised many concerns amongst the different development agencies.
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  The challenge of eliminating world poverty

  Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2000

  This document is based on a compilation of reports following the SDC's review on its concepts on social development and the fight against poverty, as well as its vision, basic concerns and objectives after the World Summit on Social Development in Copenhagen in May 1995.
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  Aid, policy and growth in post-conflict societies

  World Bank, 2002

  The authors of this paper claim it provides the first systematic empirical analysis of aid and policy reform in the post-conflict growth process. The primary purpose of this paper is to bring post-conflict situations explicitly into the poverty-efficiency framework of aid allocation.
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  The SAP experience in Pakistan

  Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2000

  What is the Pakistan Social Action Program (SAP) and what lessons can be learnt from the experiences of this - the longest running example of a sector wide approach (SWAp)?
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  Realising human rights for poor people

  Department for International Development, UK, 2000

  This paper presents DFID's strategy for the achievement of human rights and fundamental freedoms of poor people. The central message is that the International Development Targets can only be achieved through the engagement of poor people in the development processes which affect their lives.

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