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Lindsay Mgbor - Department of International Development

Rethinking social accountability in Africa: lessons from the Mwananchi Programme

Event - Public event - 12 September 2013 11:30 - 14:30 (GMT-05)

Despite evident economic progress in Africa, inequality is slowing the rate at which growth delivers better services to poor people. The Mwananchi Programme spent five years implementing ‘social accountability’ projects in six African countries to enable ordinary citizens to hold their governments to account. This event will discuss the lessons learned and what they mean for designing and carrying out projects which change the rules of the game in favour of poor people. RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

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Financial regulation in low-income countries: balancing inclusive growth with financial stability

Event - Workshop - 10 - 11 September 2013

The University of Ghana hosted a two workshop and debate for the ODI project, funded by DFID-ESRC Growth Research Programme, on financial regulation in African low-income countries.

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Rethinking social accountability in Africa: lessons from the Mwananchi Programme

Publication - Research reports and studies - 5 September 2013

Fletcher Tembo

Despite economic progress in Africa, rising inequality is slowing the rate at which growth delivers better services to poor people. This report presents lessons from the Mwananchi Programme's five years implementing social accountability projects across six African countries.

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Rethinking social accountability in Africa - a visual summary

Publication - Infographic - 5 September 2013

Fletcher Tembo

'Rethinking social accountability in Africa: lessons from the Mwananchi Programme' is a major new report exploring how social accountability programmes can help ordinary citizens in Africa hold their governments to account. Read the visual summary.

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Smallholder agriculture’s contribution to better nutrition

Publication - Research reports and studies - 29 April 2013

Steve Wiggins and Sharada Keats

This paper, commissioned by the UK Hunger Alliance, addresses the question of how sustainable smallholder agriculture can contribute to improving food security and reducing under-nutrition in the developing world.

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Trading the way out of poverty: roundtable with Chief Alan Kyerematen

Event - Round-table - 24 April 2013 14:00 - 15:15 (GMT+01 (BST))

Roundtable with Chief Alan Kyerematen, former Minister of Trade and Industry, Ghana exploring how developing countries can best trade themselves out of poverty.

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Elections in Kenya and Ghana: what prospects for political and economic governance?

Event - Public event - 19 March 2013 10:00 - 12:00 (GMT+00)

This event is the first meeting in an ODI series on ‘Elections, legitimacy and transitions: lessons from emerging democracies’. This timely event will look at two countries electoral trajectories: Kenya and Ghana.

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Growth, employment and poverty in Africa: tales of lions and cheetahs

Publication - Research reports and studies - 26 February 2013

Pedro Martins

This paper compares the experiences of four fast-growing African countries—Ethiopia, Ghana, Mozambique and Tanzania—in order to shed some light on the different growth paths being pursued, as well as on the policy choices that might explain the gaps in key development outcomes.

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Ghana election: a beacon of hope?

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 21 December 2012

Once again an election in Ghana seems to have gone off well. The country’s famed two-party electoral system appears in reasonable health. Incumbent president John Mahama has been voted back in, giving the National Democratic Congress (the Jerry Rawlings vehicle) a second term. Nana Akufo-Addo, the candidate of the New Patriotic Party (which backed two-time president John Kufuor), has been defeated despite attracting nearly 48% of votes.

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Leaping and learning: strategies for taking agricultural successes to scale in sub-Saharan Africa

Event - Workshop - 9 - 13 July 2012

ODI's joint project with Agriculture for Impact, Firetail and the Glasshouse Partnership'Leaping and Learning: Taking Agricultural Successes to Scale' has focused on providing development partners with access to independent, evidence-based recommendations that set out practical policy options and approaches for scaling up smallholder agricultural development in sub-Saharan Africa to ensure food and nutrition security and poverty reduction.

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