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  Reforming the delivery of public services: who decides?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Several developing countries have recently initiated reforms to improve the ways in which public services such as health or water are delivered. These present a much harder task than the economic stabilisation reforms of the 1980s and 1990s. Unclear goals and uncertain benefits make their implementation difficult.
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  Education For All (EFA) - Fast Track Initiative (FTI) status report

  Education for All Fast Track Initiative, World Bank, 2004

  This report looks at the progress of the FTI.
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  Impact of public-private partnerships addressing access to pharmaceuticals in selected low and middle income countries: a synthesis report from studies in Botswana, Sri Lanka, Uganda and Zambia

  Initiative on Public-Private Partnerships for Health, 2004

  This research report outlines how public-private partnerships (PPPs) intended to provide HIV drugs in three African countries are having limited impact because of the way in which these drugs are priced and patented.The report examines evidence on the effectiveness of two different types of PPPs: those set up to provide treatments for tropical diseases (in Sri Lanka, Uganda and Zambia), and tho
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  Involving men in maternity care: South Africa

  Frontiers in Reproductive Health, 2004

  This paper, from the Frontiers in Reproductive Health Program, reports on a clinic-based intervention in South Africa which focused on involving men in maternal health services. This included providing an antenatal information booklet for couples, training health providers in couples counselling, and inviting partners of pregnant women to attend the counselling during and after delivery.
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  Education decentralization and accountability relationships in Latin America

  World Bank, 2004

  This paper analyses decentralisation reforms in the education sector in Latin America, in particular their status, impact, and ongoing challenges.
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  Measuring the effects of behavior change and service delivery interventions in Guatemala with population-based survey results

  JHPIEGO Consortium, 2004

  This JHPIEGO report, presents the results from the Maternal and Neonatal Health (MNH) Programme conducted in Guatemala. This programme was also run in Nepal and Burkino Faso. The MNH programme promotes the use of skilled maternal and newborn care, family and community involvement in this care, as well as supportive government policies to sustain these efforts.
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  Survey tools for assessing performance in service delivery

  Public Sector Governance, World Bank, 2003

  This chapter examines the usefulness of two micro-economic level surveys, the Public Expenditure Tracking Survey (PETS) and Quantitative Service Delivery Survey (QSDS) in assessing service delivery.
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  Using data to improve service delivery: a self-evaluation approach

  Academy for Educational Development, USA, 2003

  This paper promotes greater use of existing service data to improve health services. The paper is a manual instructing frontline health workers how to use data collected at health facilities to solve common problems in service delivery and improve their response to community needs.
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  Fitting the pieces together: a composite view of government’s strategy to assist the unemployed in South Africa 1994 - 2004

  Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2004

  The objective of this paper is to construct an overview of the South African government’s strategy to assist the unemployed and to examine what shifts and changes this strategy reveals over time.
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  Public expenditure tracking surveys in education

  International Institute for Educational Planning, UNESCO, 2004

  This document examines two tools for tracking public expenditure in the education sector, namely the Public Expenditure Tracking Survey (PETS) and the quantitative service delivery survey (QSDS), using case studies from Uganda, Peru and Zambia.The first chapter of this document describes actors in the education sector and the accountability relationships between them as a conceptual framework w

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