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Effectiveness of community-led security mechanisms in urban Eastern Africa: a research agenda
Centre for Human Rights and Policy Studies, 2015In many African states, even in those states not afflicted by conflicts from the beginning, in reality, the state never managed to impose a monopoly on security. Moreover, in many cases the African states never developed ‘public’ security systems to protect all citizens without discrimination. The public police remained largely in the service of the elite in power.DocumentThe political dynamics of economic growth
Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2012This survey article is an assessment of what is known about the political determinants of economic growth, i.e. the role of political factors in explaining why some countries’ economies grow faster than others.DocumentBuilding state capacity for inclusive development: the politics of public sector reform
Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2013A capable state is essential for inclusive development, and developing countries are seeking to build it through a multifaceted agenda of public sector reform (PSR). This paper provides an analytically-driven review of PSR as a policy agenda.DocumentNorway’s municipal international cooperation - results achieved and lessons learnt
Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, 2015Municipal International Cooperation (1997-2014) was a programme involving municipalities in Norway and the Global South. It was managed by the Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities (KS) and financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This report sums up results and identifies lessons to be learnt for a possible future scheme.DocumentJudicial independence under the APRM: from rhetoric to reality
South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015The greatest challenges to good governance in Africa lie at the intersection of two problems: (i) low horizontal and vertical accountability, and (ii) weak constitutionalism. While courts are a critical player at these intersecting fault lines, the role of the judiciary has frequently been understated or marginalised in the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM).DocumentReview of Norad´s Assistance to gender mainstreaming in the energy and petroleum sector 2010-2014
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2015BackgroundDocumentA synthesis of institutional arrangements of National AIDS Commissions in seven African countries: work in progress
HLSP Institute, UK, 2007This paper presents a synthesis of institutional arrangements and issues currently facing National AIDS Councils/Commissions (NACs) in 2007. It reviews the governance and institutional arrangements of African NACs as well as harmonisation and alignement processes. For each topic there is an analysis of emerging themes.DocumentHelpdesk Report: Evidence base for local block grants in Education
Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2013This Helpdesk query was asked to provide a literature / evidence review of the effectiveness – or otherwise – of sub-national flexible block grants in education in delivering enrolment, attendance and quality objectives.DocumentA Review of the Human Resource Content of PRSP and HIPC documentation in 6 selected African Countries
Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2003This desk based review looks at PRSP/HIPC documentation and related documentation and seeks to shed light on whether these documents adequately reflect the growing importance of human resource planning, implementation, and management in achieving real reform.DocumentIllegal timber trade and REDD+ Interface in Eastern Africa: A Pilot
Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2015This report is a desk appraisal of the following programme proposal: “Illegal Timber Trade and REDD+ Interface in Eastern Africa: A pilot” (hereafter ‘ITT-REDD’). The programme’s objective is to enhance national and regional capacity to combat the illegal timber and charcoal trade in East Africa.Pages
