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  What the users think - health and water service reform in Zimbabwe

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Economic reform (Economic Structural Adjustment Programme) in Zimbabwe in the 1990s has reduced public sector spending and introduced cost sharing to social services. As part of a series of studies carried out by the School of Public Policy, Birmingham on the role of government following structural adjustment, the views of health and water users were sought.
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  Does reforming mean improving? Consumers speak out on Ghana's health and water services

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Governments tackling economic reforms have to balance pressures from international agencies to curb public spending, with meeting domestic social responsibilities. Most find this adjustment an impossible task. Health and water provision are prime concerns and certainly rate top priority among citizens. Governments make policy but what of people who must live with it? What do consumers want?
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  Helping municipalities work with the private sector: a salutary experience from South Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Affermage contracts allow a private operator to deliver services with a greater degree of freedom than is possible with a management contract. What regulatory and institutional framework is required for this complex form of public private partnership (PPP) to fulfil its promise?
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  Getting municipalities ready to work with the private sector: experience from Zimbabwe

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  What are the linkages between municipal management, poverty reduction and the private sector? Can service delivery be simultaneously pro-poor and for- profit? How can municipalities in developing countries learn to work with the private sector to improve water and sanitation services?
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  Donor information and communication technology (ICT) strategies: summary matrix

  OECD Development Centre, 2003

  This document analyses ICT for development strategies (objectives, guiding principles, institutional arrangements) and programmes designed to implement these strategies.
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  From aid to partnership: a joint review of Norwegian - South African development cooperation 1995-2001

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2003

  The study provides an overview and an assessment of the Norwegian development assistance to South Africa since the first democratic elections in 1994.The report finds that nearly one billion Norwegian kroner were disbursed from Norway to South Africa during the first seven years.
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  Sustaining local level development: what worked and what did not: lessons from the phasing-out of Norwegian aid to the Hambantota Integrated Rural Development Programme (HIRDEP), Sri Lanka 1992-1999

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2003

  This paper examines what happens when funding for a project reaches its phase-out stage and the project must stand alone. It summarises the main experiences and lessons from twenty years of the Hambantota Integrated Rural Development Programme (HIRDEP), with a focus on the last phase from 1992 to 1999.Findings include:the phasing-out did not go as initially planned.
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  The halfway proposition: background paper on reverse subsidy of G8 countries by African ISPs

  Association of African Internet Service Provider Associations, 2002

  The Aim of the Halfway Proposition is to articulate the root causes of high connectivity costs in Africa and to map out a strategy of how to tackle the problem.The paper argues that the current burden of paying for International Internet Bandwidth Costs is unfairly weighted onto countries in Africa and that the existence of these reverse subsidies is the single largest factor contributing to hi
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  Targeting poverty through community-based public works programs: a cross-disciplinary assessment of recent experience in South Africa

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2001

  This paper examines the performance of seven programs in Western Cape Province at involving community participation and at targeting the poor and women.
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  Civil society statement on policy coherence. ECOSOC Special High-Level meeting with the Bretton Woods Institutions and the World Trade Organization

  Rethinking Bretton Woods Campaign, COC, 2003

  This NGO joint statement on the policy coherence agenda of the World Bank / IMF and WTO argues that “misguided and failed” World Bank and IMF policy reforms on the liberalization of trade and financial flows, deregulation, privatization and budget austerity are now being locked into international trade law.The report highlights impacts on areas such as food security and access to essential ser

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