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Searching with a thematic focus on Aid and debt, Governance in Uganda

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  Evaluations, strategic planning and log-frames – donor-imposed straitjackets on local NGOs?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Driven by concerns to demonstrate ‘value for money’, bilateral donors and major Northern development agencies are becoming more selective in the types of organisations and activities they will fund and the types of account keeping they demand from recipients. New requirements are forcing small non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in developing countries to change the way they work.
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  The IMF: wrong diagnosis, wrong medicine

  Oxfam, 1999

  Prepared as part of Oxfam International's Education Now campaign, this briefing paper evaluates the International Monetary Fund (IMF), offering information, statistics, case studies and recommendations for change.
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  Devolution in Uganda – living up to expectations?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Uganda’s ongoing experiment in devolution aims to shift responsibility for public services from central to local government. While progress has been made, new research argues that success depends on the adequacy of resources to support the task and the capacities of local authorities to carry it out.
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  Strengthening democracy: can CSOs help?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  The creation of a workable democracy is a prime concern for many conflict-torn societies. A challenge faced in the past by Bosnia and Uganda, it is one that Afghanistan is likely to have to face in the near future. How far can civil society organisations (CSOs) help (re)-build democracy?
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  Working for God?: evaluating service delivery of religious not-for-profit health care providers in Uganda

  World Bank, 2003

  This paper exploits a unique micro-level data set on primary health care facilities in Uganda to address the question: What motivates religious not-for-profit (RNP) health care providers?The literature provides two general explanations for what drives not-for-profit actors.
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  Public expenditure for development results and poverty reduction

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  Review and case studies of "Results-oriented (or ‘performance’ or ‘output’) budgeting": the planning of public expenditures for the purpose of achieving explicit and defined results. These policies have often been first implemented through sector-wide approaches (SWAps), particularly in health and education.
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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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  New strategies, old loan conditions: the case of Uganda

  Bretton Woods Project, 2002

  Based on secondary materials and interviews with leading officials within the Government of Uganda, bi-lateral and multi-lateral institutions and civil society organizations in Uganda and Washington DC over 2001, this study presents evidence that crucial policy prescriptions within the PRSC and PRGF may impair Uganda’s ability to effectively realize its antipoverty and growth goals.Uganda's Pov
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  External Debt Histories of Ten Low-Income Developing Countries - Lessons from Their Experience

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1998

  The external debt burden of many low-income developing countries has increased significantly since the 1970s.
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  Aid and Reform in Africa

  Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank, 1999

  Since the early 1980s, virtually every African country has received large amounts of aid aimed at stimulating policy reform. The results have varied enormously. Ghana and Uganda were successful reformers that grew rapidly and reduced poverty. In other countries policies changed little or even got worse.

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