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  Uganda takes control of its relationships with donors

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Uganda is typically a low-income country with low levels of domestic revenue. 48 % of the government’s expenditure is provided through donor aid. Despite this high level of dependency, networks of trust between government officials and their donors have allowed the Ugandan government to have a control over the country’s development process.
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  Resilience and high performance amidst conflict, epidemics and extreme poverty : the Lacor Hospital, northern Uganda

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2004

  This case study describes how the Lacor hospital has grown into a 474-bed centre of medical excellence, setting an example for the rest of the health system and helping to build health care capacity for the whole country.
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  Transformative social protection

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  This paper, published by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), discusses the concept of social protection and the ways in which social protection policy has worked in practice, drawing on examples from Uganda.It claims that social protection has been popularly perceived as “social welfare programmes for poor countries”, consisting of costly targeted transfers to economically inac
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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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  Infant mortality in Uganda: determinants, trends, and the Millenium Development Goals

  Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2004

  This paper argues, that despite positive strides in Uganda's economic growth, there are concerns that other indicators of well-being are not improving at the same rate as incomes.This paper looks at the infant mortality rate (IMR) and uses the Uganda Demographic and Health Surveys to construct a national time series for infant mortality from 1974 to 1999.
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  Resource rich BWIs, 100% debt cancellation and the MDGs

  Jubilee Research, 2004

  This paper argues that higher levels of debt cancellation and grant (aid) flows for Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs) will be essential to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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  Poverty reduction strategies and relevant case studies from Ethiopia, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2004

  This paper reports on a study that was carried out to explore how the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) are reflected in policies and implementation plans through fund allocations in the ministries of education in Ethiopia, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda.
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  Owning the loan: poor countries and the MDGs

  African Forum and Network on Debt and Development, 2004

  This report, commissioned by Christian Aid and AFRODAD, investigates the links between debt management, the build-up of new loans, and the most sustainable ways of financing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Malawi, Mozambique, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia, all low-income and highly indebted countries.Key points of the paper include:together, these countries face an estimated mi
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  Mapping of sector wide approaches in health

  HLSP Institute, UK, 2003

  The purpose of this report commissioned for SIDA is to give an up to date picture of the status of Sector Wide Approaches (SWAps) in the health sector in the following countries: Ghana, Tanzania, Mozambique, Senegal, Bangladesh, Zambia, Mali, Uganda, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, and Malawi.
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  The informal economy: fact finding study

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2004

  This study provides an overview of the characteristics of the informal economy in developing countries, identifies reasons for the significance of the informal economy, and provides recommendations for SIDA on how to address the issues raised through its development programmes.The paper emphasises that the informal economy needs to be better understood, by both governments and donors, because i

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