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Low-carbon energy projects for development in Sub-Saharan Africa Unveiling the potential, addressing the barriers
World Bank, 2008Sub-Saharan Africa has an opportunity of choosing a cleaner development pathway via low-carbon energy alternatives that can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.DocumentAssessing vulnerability and adaptive capacity to climate risks: methods for investigation at local and national levels
World Bank, 2009This paper presents the research and learning approach of a World Bank study, and offers emerging findings on policy, as well as institutional questions surrounding adaptation arenas in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Ethiopia, Ghana and Mozambique.DocumentCommunication for empowerment
UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2010This paper highlights the importance of communication as a tool and a methodology that can make development strategies more effective, sustainable, and pro-poor and gender-sensitive. Communication has the power to change societies, and communication channels are key determinants of inclusive participation.DocumentRegional organizations and incentives to improve governance: The APRM experience, with particular reference to Ghana
Overseas Development Institute, 2008The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) is seen as the main tool for improving governance in Africa.DocumentCommon African political governance issues: lessons from six early APRM reports
South African Institute of International Affairs, 2009This paper analyses the discussion and recommendations about Africa's pressing political governance issues - including the separation of powers, election management and corruption - from the APRM reports of Ghana, Rwanda, Kenya, South Africa, Algeria and Benin.DocumentClinical social franchising: an annual compendium of programs, 2009
University of California, Los Angeles, 2009Social franchising represents one of the best known ways to rapidly scale up clinical health interventions in developing countries. Building upon existing expertise in poor and isolated communities, social franchising organisations engage private medical practitioners to add new services to the range of services they already offer.DocumentAfrican Women and Domestic Violence
Open Democracy, 2007The annual mobilisation of women around the world around the theme of 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence (25 November - 10 December) represents a tremendous global effort to increase awareness of violence against women in all its forms.DocumentMeasuring ‘success’ in five African Anti-Corruption Commissions
U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2005This paper suggests that the widespread lack of ‘success’ of anti-corruption commissions (ACCs) is intimately connected to how they are funded by donors and governments and what donors and governments expect of them. The findings here are based on the insights gained from country visits to Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.DocumentPublic stewardship of private providers in mixed health systems: Synthesis report from the Rockefeller Foundation-sponsored initiative on the role of private sector in health systems
Results for Development Institute, 2009In low-resource settings, a mix of public and private health providers are needed in order to ensure that health services are available to meet the needs of a population. This report from the Results for Development Institute highlights that the study of the provision of health care is a complex issue.DocumentStrengthening social protection for children: West and Central Africa
Overseas Development Institute, 2009This report seeks to provide an overview of existing social protection policy and programming initiatives in the West and Central Africa and to assess the extent to which these address the particular manifestations of childhood poverty and vulnerability that characterise different countries in the region.Pages