Search

Searching with a thematic focus on Agriculture and food, Governance, Health, International cooperation for development

Showing 1-10 of 13 results

Pages

• Document

  World Development Report 2004: making services work for poor people

  World Development Report, World Bank, 2003

  This issue of the WDR focuses on policies for improving the access of poor people to affordable, better quality services in health, education, water, sanitation, and electricity.The report focuses on the three ways in which services can be improved:By increasing poor clients’ choice and participation in service delivery, so they can monitor and discipline providers: School vouche
• Document

  Decentralization and public services: the case of immunization

  World Bank, 2003

  This paper studies the impact of political decentralisation on childhood immunisation. The study confirms predictions in the theoretical literature about the negative impact of local political control on services that have public goods characteristics.
• Document

  Poverty reduction outcomes in education and health: public expenditure and aid

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  This paper looks at the role of public expenditure programmes in the health and education sectors and their impact on poverty. It argues for a closer donor involvement at the sector level.The evidence reviewed shows that progress towards the MDGs has slowed in some low income countries, notably in Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Document

  Public expenditure for development results and poverty reduction

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  Review and case studies of "Results-oriented (or ‘performance’ or ‘output’) budgeting": the planning of public expenditures for the purpose of achieving explicit and defined results. These policies have often been first implemented through sector-wide approaches (SWAps), particularly in health and education.
• Document

  Integrating vertical programmes into sector wide approaches: experiences and lessons

  HLSP Institute, UK, 2001

  Does the transition to sector wide approaches (SWAps) in the health sector risk reducing the impact of previously successful initiatives covered by vertical health programmes?
• Document

  Development of administrative and financial management capacity for sector-wide approaches (SWAPs): the experience of the Bangladesh Health Sector

  HLSP Institute, UK, 2001

  The health sector programme in Bangladesh – known as the Health and Population Sector Programme (HPSP) – aims to ensure that government action and resources make a cost-effective contribution to the priority health needs of the poor, particularly women and children.
• Document

  Orientation and training seminars for agency staff: sector-wide approaches for health in a changing environment

  HLSP Institute, UK, 2002

  This handbook, produced by HLSP, is intended to be used to familiarise agency staff with the sector-wide approach (SWAp) through providing modules which address several SWAp-related issues.
• Document

  Sector wide programmes and poverty reduction

  Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure, ODI, 2001

  Improving the access to services by poor and marginal groups is a strong or central objective of most of the sector wide programmes reviewed in this working paper.
• Document

  The SAP experience in Pakistan

  Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2000

  What is the Pakistan Social Action Program (SAP) and what lessons can be learnt from the experiences of this - the longest running example of a sector wide approach (SWAp)?
• Document

  Economic Reforms And Health Conditions Of The Urban Poor In Tanzania

  African Studies Quarterly, 1997

  This paper describes the impact of Economic Reforms on the health conditions of the urban poor in Tanzania. The main argument advanced is that Structural Adjustment Policies (SAPs) have exacerbated the declining condition of the urban areas rather than improved them.

Pages