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  Promoting institutional and organisational development

  Department for International Development, UK, 2003

  This paper from the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) argues that development interventions are more likely to succeed if they promote improvements at the wider level of institutions.Institutions are very powerful and often discriminate against the poor. Without institutional reform poverty alleviation programmes can fail.
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  Public sector reform and demand for human resources for health

  Human Resources for Health, 2004

  This article, from Human Resources for Health, considers the effect of fiscal reform and the introduction of decentralisation and market mechanisms on human resources in the health sector. Findings show that these reforms often result in ‘corporatised’ institutions, with reductions in the workforce as health services are contracted out, or increased short-term and temporary employment contracts.
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  Neonatal survival 2: Evidence-based, cost-effective interventions: how many newborn babies can we save?

  The Lancet, 2005

  This paper, the second in The Lancet neonatal survival series, reviews evidence for the effectiveness of newborn health interventions in developing countries. It selects 16 simple interventions of proven efficacy (implementation under ideal conditions).
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  Working together: assessing Public–Private Partnerships in Africa

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2005

  This report examines the potential of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) in Africa. In order to do so the report uses eight case studies of PPPs in toll roads, ports, prisons, telecommunications, eco-tourism and water and electricity provision.
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  Toilet wars: urban sanitation services and the politics of public-private partnerships in Ghana

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper examines the impact of the new forms of partnership between the public authorities and private/citizen-based organisations on urban environmental sanitation in the two largest cities of Ghana, namely, Accra and Kumasi.
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  Severe poverty and growth: a macro-micro analysis

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2004

  This paper discusses the relationship between growth and poverty and argues that there is sufficient evidence to demonstrate policy and institutional changes that would enable an exit out of poverty.
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  Increasing client's power to scale up health services for the poor: the BAMAKO Initiative in West Africa

  World Bank, 2003

  This World Bank background paper reviews the experiences of the Bamako Initiative, which has focused on community involvement to improve health service delivery in West Africa.
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  Equity of family planning in developing countries

  Deliver, 2004

  This policy briefing from DELIVER focuses on how to ensure equitable access to and use of family planning services and resources in developing countries. The authors refer to analyses of nationally representative data from demographic and health surveys in 20 countries, as well as data from reproductive health surveys in Guatemala, Honduras and Paraguay.
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  Forging partnership for social protection in South and East Asia

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2005

  This paper represents a summary of the discussions from a workshop that sought to identify useful models, case studies and best practices that would be useful in building and maintaining viable systems for social protection. The results of the workshop are intended to feed into developing strategy to rebuild social protection systems after decades of neglect.
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  Building the Inclusive City: understanding the networks of the urban poor

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Concepts of social capital have been prominent in development discourse but have rarely been applied to practice and policy. It is becoming accepted that poverty elimination strategies in urban communities need to build on people’s existing social capital – their associations, networks and key contacts.

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