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  Questionable assumptions : why health sector reforms have failed to deliver in Kenya

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  The Kenyan government is committed to providing health services to all its citizens. But despite major health sector reforms, the population’s health status is falling. Researchers from the Tropical Institute of Community Health and Development, Kisumu, Kenya, explore the reasons for this lack of success.
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  Can decentralisation promote pro-poor development planning systems?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Can development planning close the gap between high level strategic thinking and the local level context? How can national poverty reduction strategy papers (PRSPs) complement the decentralisation of development functions? Are local government officials sufficiently sensitive to development needs? How can we judge the successes and failures of decentralisation processes?
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  ICTs in rural Ghana: bringing schools and communities together?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Could information communication technologies (ICTs) improve learning in rural Africa? When exposed to new technology, how do children, adults and teachers use it to represent their lives and opportunities?
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  Decentralisation and its implications for reproductive health: the Philippines experience

  Reproductive Health Matters, 2003

  This paper, from Reproductive Health Matters (RHM), examines the decentralisation of the Philippines health sector that took place in the 1990s. The paper looks at the impact of decentralisation on the financing and delivery of services, institutional capacity, health personnel, quality of care, and local representation.
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  Final report of the ad hoc working group on participatory development and good governance (part 2)

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1997

  This paper presents lessons from experience of support for participatory development and good governance.
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  Decentralisation and democracy in Indonesia: a critique of neo-institutionalist perspectives

  Southeast Asia Research Centre, City University, Hong Kong, 2003

  Decentralisation has been a key theme in the neo-institutionalist development literature, which explains the existence and functions of institutions in terms of the assumptions of neo-liberal economic theory. In the neo-institutionalist literature, decentralisation is expected to lead to greater transparency, accountability to local communities and greater public participation in development.
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  Essays on gender and governance

  Human Development Resource Centre, India, 2003

  This book is based on four essays that look at gender and governance in the context of UNDP's efforts to promote development, and women’s role in it.
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  Synthesis study on supporting decentralisation and local government: lessons learned, good practices and emerging issues', Report for the DAC Working Party on Aid Evaluation.

  OECD Development Centre, 2003

  The aim of this guide is to offer donors and partner countries recommendations for improving programmes supporting decentralisation and local governance, focussing in particular on:the linkage between political decentralisation and poverty alleviationpartnerships between local governments and civil societysustainability challenges within this field of donor supportLessons l
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  Fairly fair? Approaches to health equity in Namibia

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Many health inequalities are due to unequal access to society’s resources. In theory, they are avoidable – but how? The international community tends to define health equity as ‘equality of health status’. But is this the most useful approach in developing countries? Researchers working with Namibia’s Ministry of Health and Social Services (MHSS) think not.
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  Distinguishing rhetoric from reality: the search for common ground in water and sanitation

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  As water becomes increasingly scarce, should we focus on controlling demand or augmenting supply? Can the split between public and private management of water be resolved? Should water be reserved for food production or can food security be guaranteed through trade? How should developing countries adjust their economies in response to water stress?

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