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This round-table brought together leading researchers on public financial management (PFM) to examine and debate evidence on budget reforms in low-income African countries. The round-table addressed frameworks for approaching and analysing PFM reforms, pre-conditions and political economy factors, prioritisation and phasing, and sustainability.
As the world focuses on the East Africa food crisis, what lessons have been learnt since the last two severe food crises in the Sahel region of West Africa in 2005 and 2010? What has to change so that every drought does not result in a new humanitarian crisis? As we hear of failed rains in Niger this year, how can aid be more effective to prevent the next food crisis?
This report presents data on how countries are closing in on the MDG targets. It unpacks the targets and indicators to map out how the development process is playing out across countries and continents.
A summary of initial findings from an ongoing review of progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which will include a set of league tables. The key message is that progress is possible, with a number of countries making real achievements.
Specific objective: The capacities of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in five African countries are enhanced to contribute effectively to local and national food security policy formulation which recognise and capitalise on the potential of pro-poor and local innovations.
The gender audits of the UNICEF Burkina Faso and Mali country offices, on behalf of the UNICEF West and Central Africa Regional Office (WCARO), analyze the extent to which gender analysis techniques and rights considerations are mainstreamed and operationalized in UNICEF’s policies, programming, and organization. It also assesses staff capacity to mainstream gender, and the degree to which staff are held accountable for mainstreaming gender into programmes and improving development outcomes through use of gender analysis, particularly for girls and women.
The International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) aims to deliver a step shift in public availability and accessibility of information on aid flows, globally. Launched during the High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra in September 2008, to date it has 17 signatories and strong interest from partner countries and civil society organisations (CSOs).
National frameworks to reduce poverty and adapt to climate change rarely, if ever, interlink.