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  Reshaping the future: education and post conflict reconstruction

  World Bank, 2005

  This study discusses the issues and challenges around education, poverty and conflict; and the impact of conflict on education. It presents the case that there are significant opportunities for education sector reform in post conflict reconstruction situations, and that education has a key role in both preventing conflict and rebuilding fractured post conflict societies.
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  Education For All Global Monitoring Report 2005: Education For All - the quality imperative

  Education for All, UNESCO, 2004

  This years EFA Global Monitoring Report focuses on the quality of education.
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  The political economy of international development and pro-poor livestock policies: a comparative assessment

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2004

  This paper analyses political organisation and action that can be used to overcome the lack of voice of poor producers in the domestic and international policy arenas.
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  Malaria control at the district level in Africa: the case of the Muheza district in Northeastern Tanzania

  American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2004

  This article from the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene reports on an assessment of the contribution made by primary health care services to malaria control in the Muheza district of North-eastern Tanzania since the 1980s.
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  Poverty reduction, decentralization and community-based monitoring systems

  Poverty and Economic Policy Network, 2003

  With a growing emphasis on good governance as a prerequisite to meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), there has been an accompanying pressure on governments to decentralise. Decentralisation has shifted greater responsibility to local government units to carry out policies and programs, brought with it greater demand for local level data.
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  Why budgets matter: the new agenda of public expenditure management

  Overseas Development Institute, 2004

  This ODI briefing paper summarises the arguments for focusing on budgets and budget processes and highlights some of the main lessons from past CAPE (Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure) research. The shift from the "due process approaches" of conventional budgeting to wider public expenditure management incorporates a complex set of actors and institutions involved in the budget process.
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  Building coherence between sector reforms and decentralisation: do SWAPs provide the missing link?

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2003

  This report summarises the findings of a research study that set out to understand the relationship between SWAPs, sector programmes and decentralisation processes in different institutional contexts.
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  Implementing reproductive health services in an era of health sector reform

  Policy Project, Futures Group, Washington, 2000

  As countries stretch available resources to implement the reproductive health initiatives they agreed at Cairo, many are also undertaking sweeping health sector reforms, designed to improve the efficiency and quality of overall health services while ensuring equity in health care. Countries must therefore implement reproductive health in the context of health sector reform.
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  Making the link between sexual and reproductive health and health systems development

  London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2003

  The policy areas of health system development and reproductive health have developed separately, with apparently little explicit overlap and dialogue. Indeed, health system development (HSD) policies may be developed without a clear realisation of their implications for sexual and reproductive health (SRH) programmes.
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  Out of reach: local politics and the distribution of development funds in Madhya Pradesh

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  This study investigates two schemes in Madhya Pradesh aimed at devolving development funds from the Central government to members of the parliament (MPs) for development of their constituencies, as well as separate state government allocaton of development funds to the members of the state assemblies (MLAs).

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