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Open data for transparency and accountability in health service delivery: What's new in the digital age?

U4 Issue | Aug 2018

Open data platforms have a great unexplored potential. Publicly available health data can make service delivery more transparent and accountable. Experience ...

Strong regional inequalities in health service delivery in Angola

Angola Brief | Jun 2011

A statistical survey of health facilities and households in Luanda and Uíge has confirmed that strong inequalities persist between provinces in ...

Angola

Local governance, urban poverty and service delivery in Namibia

Project | Nov 2003 - Dec 2005

The primary objective of this project was to identify viable approaches to the delivery of basic services for people living in poor urban areas. In the ...

Africa: Namibia

Reciprocity networks, service delivery, and corruption: The wantok system in Papua New Guinea

U4 Issue | Feb 2020

In all countries, informal systems of reciprocity influence the distribution of state resources. These social networks help people cope with adversity ...

Local Government Reform in Tanzania 2002 - 2005: Summary of Research Findings on Governance, Finance and Service Delivery

Report in External Series | Jan 2006

What impact has Tanzania's Local Government Reform Programme had on local governance, finances and service delivery? Have there been any changes over ...

Local government, decentralisation, governance, service delivery, public finances, Tanzania

Service delivery indicators: Pilot in education and health care in Africa

CMI Report | Nov 2011

The Service Delivery Indicators (“the Indicators”) provide a set of metrics for benchmarking service delivery performance in education ...

Global health and development, Tanzania, Senegal

Afghanistan: Innovative Risk Management Approaches for Local Aid Delivery

Report in External Series | May 2014

Future stability in Afghanistan depends in part upon continued delivery of development assistance throughout the country, albeit at reduced levels, ...

Aid delivery, risk management, Afghanistan

Caretakers` acceptability of different delivery mechanisms of Post-discharge Malaria Chemoprevention (PMC) in Zomba, Southern Malawi A qualitative study under the GLOBVAC funded Post-discharge Malaria Chemoprevention Delivery (PMC) study

Journal Article | Apr 2018

In malaria endemic countries of sub-Saharan Africa, many children develop severe anaemia due to previous and current malaria infections. After blood transfusions ...

Health, malaria, Malawi

Disparities in Citizens' Perceptions of Service Delivery by Local Government Authorities in Tanzania

Report in External Series | Jan 2008

The Local Government Reform Programme (LGRP) in Tanzania aims to restructure local government authorities so that they can respond more effectively to ...

Local government, service delivery, Tanzania

Local Governance, Urban Poverty and Service Delivery in Namibia

CMI Report | Jan 2005

The urbanisation of poverty is one of the most dramatic developments on the African continent, yielding contrasting images of affluent residential and ...

Local government, Urbanisation, Poverty, Public services, Namibia

Operationalizing a Rights-Based Approach to Health Service Delivery

Project | Dec 2013 - Jun 2016

Operationalizing a rights-based approach to health service delivery (RBA-healthdelivery) is a joint effort by CMI, The World Bank Institute and Harvard ...

right to health, health system reform, right based approach, health care delivery

Local Governance, Finances and Service Delivery in Tanzania. A Summary of Findings from Six Councils

Report in External Series | Jan 2005

This report provides a summary of three more extensive reports, which contribute to a baseline for the local government reform programme in Tanzania: ...

Local government, decentralisation, Tanzania

Delivery strategies for malaria chemoprevention with monthly dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine for the post-discharge management of severe anaemia in children aged less than 5 years old in Malawi: a protocol for a cluster randomized trial

Journal Article | Sep 2018

Background Children initially hospitalized with severe anaemia in Africa are at high risk of readmission or death within 6 months after discharge. No ...

Health, malaria, Malawi

Theory and practise of decentralization by devolution: Lessons from a research programme in Tanzania (2002-13)

Book Chapter | Jun 2017

What impact did Tanzania’s decentralization reform have on local governance, finances and service delivery? To what extent are the central-local ...

Local government, decentralisation, tax, governance, public services, Tanzania

Service Delivery Indicators: a pilot

Project | Mar - Dec 2010

The project will pilot tools for measurement of service quality in health facilities and schools. A unique part of the project is it emphasis on the knowledge ...

Fiscal decentralisation in Tanzania. For better or for worse?

Journal Article | Jan 2003

Tanzania is currently implementing local government reform aimed at improving public service delivery. An important component of the reform is increasing ...

Africa: Tanzania

Fiscal decentralisation in Tanzania: For better or for worse?

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2001

Tanzania is currently implementing a local government reform aimed at improving public service delivery. An important component of the reform is to increase ...

Africa: Tanzania

Embezzlement of Donor Funding in Health Projects

U4 Brief | May 2008

Donor funding has fuelled a vast increase in service delivery, medical research and clinical trials throughout the developing world. Yet, there is a dark ...

corruption, health sector, monitoring aid, corruption in aid

Rewarding Safe Motherhood: How can Performance-Based Funding Reduce Maternal and Newborn Mortality in Tanzania?

CMI Report | Jan 2007

Performance-based funding has been proposed as one mechanism to speed up the implementation of interventions for reduced maternal and newborn mortality. ...

Health sector, Maternal mortality, Child mortality, Economic aspects, Tanzania

Drawing the lines: The Norwegian debate on civilian-military relations in Afghanistan

Report in External Series | Jul 2010

Military and civilian actors are engaged in a debate over where to draw the lines in the provision of humanitarian and development assistance. This is ...

Afghanistan