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Making sector budget support work for service delivery: good practice recommendations

ODI Project Briefings 37, February 2010

Making sector budget support work for service delivery: good practice recommendations
  • Authors: Tim Williamson and Catherine Dom
  • The second in a series of three Project Briefings on Sector Based Support (SBS), this briefing focuses on good practice recommendations. It finds that complementary SBS and general budget support (GBS) packages are the preferred modalities for support to service delivery, and that funding, dialogue, conditionality and capacity-building practices must change for SBS to realise its promise. It concludes that the required focus on service quality at the front line will not happen automatically
  • 4, 4 pages
  • A briefing paper published by ODI in the ODI Project Briefings publication series. This resource was an output of the following ODI project: Sector Budget Support in Practice .