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    The logic of decentralisation: Mobilising cash, commitment and communities

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    Renewed emphasis on good governance and transparency has once again put the issue of decentralisation on the agenda. In theory, a decentralised government – whose representatives are in closer contact with their electorate – will be more transparent and responsive to the needs of the poor and this will naturally promote pro-poor development. But what does reality tell us?
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    UPE at all costs: Ugandan children flock to school, but quality suffers

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    In 1997 Uganda resolved to achieve universal primary education (UPE). Within five years, the number of children in primary schools almost trebled. However, pupil:teacher, pupil:textbook and pupil:classroom ratios have all worsened. Many parents of primary schoolchildren spend more than the state does on their education.
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    User-payment, decentralization and health service utilization in Zambia

    Health Policy and Planning, 2001
    This article, published in Health Policy and Planning, reports on a study that assessed the impact of health sector reform in Zambia from 1993 to 1997. Results show a decrease of about one-third in general attendance for both hospitals and health centres over a two-year period, followed by a slower decrease.
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    Developing capacity for participatory development in the context of decentralisation: Takalar district, South Sulawesi province, Indonesia

    Capacity.org, 2004
    This case study examines how Takalar district in the Indonesian province of South Sulawesi took up the challenge of tackling rural poverty through the use of participatory development and community empowerment methodologies.Between 1997 and 2002 Takalar district and the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) introduced a model of participatory development known as the Sistem Dukungan,
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    A review of the health sector in Kenya

    Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, 2004
    This paper reviews Kenya’s health indicators; describes the health system and government health policy; and examines the quality of healthcare and ways in which the system is financed.
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    Research on the current state of PRS monitoring systems

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004
    This report reviews recent literature on the monitoring of Poverty Reduction Strategies. It discusses four challenging issues: institutional arrangements; the role of non-government organisations; implementation and intermediate output monitoring; using results.The main findings from this study are:severe capacity constraints are not sufficiently acknowledged.
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    Education decentralization and accountability relationships in Latin America

    World Bank, 2004
    This paper analyses decentralisation reforms in the education sector in Latin America, in particular their status, impact, and ongoing challenges.
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    Women, the state, and the travails of decentralising the Nigerian Federation

    West Africa Review, 2000
    In this essay focusing on Southern Nigeria, the author claims that women have been deliberately and consciously excluded from political participation.
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    Monitoring and evaluation of decentralization reforms in developing country health sectors

    Partners for Health Reformplus, 2004
    The purpose of this paper, from Partners for Health Sector Reform/plus, is to provide planners, policymakers and researchers with guidance on measuring and evaluating decentralisation reforms in the health sector. The paper presents basic information on the rationales and definitions of different forms of decentralisation, as well as country experiences with health sector decentralisation.
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    WHO Expert Committee on Malaria: twentieth report

    World Health Organization, 2000
    This report from the World Health Organization Expert Committee on Malaria reviews the progress made since 1992 in the implementation of the Global Malaria Control Strategy and analyses the effect of health sector reforms on malaria control programmes. The importance of more recent initiatives, such as Roll Back Malaria, is also discussed.

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