Despite widespread implementation across Africa, there is limited evidence of the effect of payment for performance (P4P) schemes in low income countries ...

This report is the second in a series of six participatory and qualitative studies on poverty in Mozambique, undertaken as part of the monitoring and ...

Anthropologist with a particular interest in urban and rural poverty and poverty alleviation.

Developing robust civil society organisations (CSOs) is a high priority in countries emerging from conflicts. However, civil society is very diverse, ...

Land policies are of fundamental importance to the wellbeing of and the economic opportunities open to rural people, good governance, and peaceful coexistence. ...

This project is a study of the foreign aid that was channelled to transitional justice processes in Rwanda and Guatemala from 1995 to 2005. Goals of the ...

The anti-corruption reform in the Tanzanian tax bureaucracy in the mid-1990s was apparently a short-lived success. In the wake of the reform, a number ...

Reflections on the peace process in the Sudan and South Sudan from 2002 to 2015. Endre Stiansen, Senior Policy and Research Advisior at the United Nations ...

The success of any international development agency depends on an understanding of the ways in which a community and individuals relate to ideas and resources, argues Dr. David Lewis from the London School of Economics.

Mutual accountability is one of five principles of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. Yet comparatively little has been written about this principle ...

Guatemala suffers from high levels of undernourishment and malnutrition despite a strong political commitment to the right to food. Yet, there is an absence ...

While the passage of various UN Resolutions 1325 (2000), 1820 (2008), 1888 (2009) and 1889 (2009) on women, peace and security are important step in the ...

Norway channels a large portion of its development aid budget through Norwegian civil society organisations. This also includes disbursements from Norad’s ...

Health workers’ motivation is a key determinant of the quality of health services, and poor motivation has been found to be an obstacle to service ...

Objective: In Ethiopia, coverage of key health services is low, and community based services have been implemented to improve access to key services. ...

Issues in the development of statistical services in Namibia Graham Eele and Robert Greener CMI Rep

Abstract The role of civil society organizations in peace making and peace building is often valorized, especially in countries that witness protracted ...

Location of engineering and designer services in the information economy Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås Wor

E-governance is gaining popularity as a tool for improved public service delivery in developing countries. It is often argued e-governance reduces corruption ...

This study seeks to assess the formal provisions of the law regulating the appointment and conditions of service of judges across eleven legal systems ...