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Yes, politics and institutions matter for service delivery – so what next? In this Briefing, Leni Wild and Marta Foresti present new evidence on how institutions matter and what must be done to engage with the politics of institutional reform.
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Using information and communication technologies to improve service delivery
Tanzania based Twaweza's new initiative, Voices of Citizens, uses mobile phones to regularly collect information from a broad cross-section of Tanzanian citizens in order to aid policy makers, and inform the public about what's going on. In this podcast, Leni Wild interviews Mushi Elvis Leonard - a researcher based at Twaweza - and explores how the survey works as well as how the findings are communicated and used to create change. -
The technical is political: understanding the political implications of sector characteristics for education service delivery
Daniel Harris, Richard Batley, Claire Mcloughlin and Joseph WalesThe education sector has characteristics that have political as well as technical implications. They affect the ways in which individuals and groups interact in relation to the delivery of education services. Achieving improvements in sector outcomes demands strategies that are politically feasible and effective as well as technically sufficient. -

What we know, and what we assume, about violent conflict and development in Asia
'We know a great deal about violence and conflict. Yet, when it comes to the relationship between conflict and development, we often make assumptions that are not always borne out in practice, as recent research into subnational conflicts in Asia demonstrates.' -
It's a risky business: aid and new approaches to political risk management
This paper focuses on political risk and argues that if international assistance is to promote political and institutional reform more effectively, it needs to become smarter – more politically aware, better attuned to context, more pragmatic and flexible, and, crucially, less risk averse. Understanding and managing political risk better and more systematically is essential to this. -

Displaced women and children in northern Mali
License: Creative Commons
Credit: EC/ECHO/Cyprien Fabre
Source: FlickrInnovations in service delivery
The World Bank is undertaking a study on local governance in zones of low density areas focusing on Mali. As part of this, ODI are reviewing experiences with delivery of essential services such as health, education, clean water, justice and conflict resolution in zones of low density population, insecurity and where different socio-economic groups coexist, with special attention given to nomadic and sedentary population. -

Politics and development: the almost revolution?
On Wednesday, ODI hosted a great discussion on half-won revolutions, rivers that run deep and things that are obvious and yet hard to do. We were discussing the relationship between politics and development, what, in their excellent new book,Tom Carothers and Diane de Gramont call ‘the almost revolution’.
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The politics of development: the almost revolution?
ODI are delighted to host Thomas Carothers and Diane de Gramont who will present insights from their new book that assesses the progress and pitfalls of the attempted politics revolution in development aid. The event contributes to ongoing dialogue and analysis hosted by ODI on the politics of public goods and service provision, and provides an opportunity to reflect on a range of experience, from a number of sectors, in developing more politically smart aid approaches.
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Making sense of the politics of delivery: our findings so far
Marta Foresti, Leni Wild and Tam O'NeilThis brief gives an overview of the main findings from research exploring the politics of service delivery.











