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Insights from the District Development Project, Uganda
United Nations Capital Development Fund, 1999District Development Project (DDP) Pilot was set up to support the efforts of Ugandans to eradicate poverty in rural areas through improved inclusiveness, efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability in the delivery of public goods and services.DocumentMonitoring and Evaluation Capacity Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons from Governance Programming
Institute on Governance, 1999Review of experience of projects aimed at developing governance and policy-forming capacity in Africa (particularly World Bank experience).Finds that governance failures in SSA are often attributable in whole or in part to:governments’ unwillingness to make themselves accountable to the citizens they are supposed to servethe inability of citizens and of the organizations and instituDocumentThe progress of policy reform and variations in performance at the sub-national level in India
Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1999The reform process in India has so far mainly concentrated at the central level. India has yet to free up its state governments sufficiently so that they can add much greater dynamism to the reforms.DocumentInformation and knowledge management: challenges for capacity builders
European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2000The paper explores ways to improve information capacity building activities in developing countries. Focusing on the capacity building process, it presents some principles and key questions for actors in this area.Capacity building for the information sector can be very different to in other sectors.DocumentCommunity based rural development: reducing rural poverty from the ground up
Rural Development Strategy Team, World Bank, 2001This article investigates Community Based Rural Development, which is an approach to reducing rural poverty that promotes collective action by communities and puts them in control of development interventions by making community based organizations (CBOs) driving forces in the process.Conclusions:CBOs directly manage most project resources.DocumentRisk management in rural development
Rural Development Strategy Team, World Bank, 2001The task here is to assess the relevance of risk-analysis findings to rural development in impoverished countries around the world.DocumentDemocratic decentralisation
Center for International Development, Research Triangle Institute (RTI), 1997suggests that the strategic objective that democratic decentralization serves is to broaden legitimacy, transparency, and accountability within the political systems of the countries where the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is providing development assistance.Article explores Research Triangle Institute's (RTI) engagement in a task to clarify how and under what circuDocumentPastoral institutions and approaches to risk management and poverty alleviation in Central Asian countries in transition
Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 1999Outlines new notion (risk management) of poverty alleviation among pastoralist communites in Central Asia. Pastoralists may either harness the beneficial effects of risk and uncertainty (i.e. fluctuations in commodity price of livestock) or attempt to manage the destructive effects of risk and uncertainty (i.e.DocumentHow the quality of institutions affects technological deepening in developing countries
World Bank, 2001This paper assesses the effect of institutional quality on R&D expenditures in developing countries. The paper finds that the risk of expropriation and the rule of law are correlated with R&D expenditures.