Reforming Public Finances in Nepal
Complicated and fast-changing politics. Political parties distributed across the left–right spectrum; ethnic and regional interests; fault lines old and new, all changing regularly.
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Operational risk assessment of public financial management in Nepal: a review of challenges and opportunities
Philipp Krause, Stephanie Sweet, Edward Hedger, and Bhola ChaliseThis report aims to inform an ongoing dialogue about the implementation of public financial management (PFM) improvements in Nepal, including their prioritization and sequencing in the prevailing political context. It provides a “reality check” on the strengths and weaknesses of the existing PFM system and focuses on nontechnical aspects such as institutional and political factors. The study was conducted as a joint initiative between the government and its development partners. -
Budget transparency in Uganda
Tim Williamson, who heads up the Budget Strengthening Initiative’s (BSI) work in Uganda and South Sudan , has over many years has worked closely with the Ugandan Government to improve the effectiveness, transparency and accountability of public financial management in Uganda. -
Matt Andrews on the limits of institutional reform
Matt Andrews, governance expert and Associate Professor at Harvard's Kennedy School, sat down with ODI's Ryan Flynn to talk about his new book - 'The Limits of Institutional Reform in Development'. -
The Taliban is not the biggest barrier to education for Malala's peers
'the Taliban thought they had solved a problem. When one of its gunmen shot a 15-year-old girl in the head for publicly opposing a ban on girls' schooling, it looked as though they had silenced a source of dissent. Instead, their intended victim has emerged a powerful voice for education.' -
Leaders pose for a family photograph at the 2013 G8 Summit
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Credit: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire
Source: FlickrAfter the G8: tax, trade, transparency and the Lough Erne communique
ODI welcome Michael Anderson, Director General Policy and Global Programmes at DFID, to discuss the outcomes of the 2013 Lough Erne G8 event and the subsequent Leaders Communique.
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To deliver on post-2015 goals, we need a data revolution in budgets too
The High-Level Panel has called for a data revolution to track progress towards international development targets. They were right to do so. But that’s not the only revolution that we need. If the international community is serious about ‘going to zero’ on poverty and other goals, we need to know what it will cost. Targets count for little if you can’t pay for them. And we also need to track the money to make sure it actually gets to where it is needed.
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Man on a donkey, Uzbekistan
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Credit: World Bank/Anvar Ilyasov
Source: World BankLocalising aid – a challenge to the orthodoxy?
What if much of the orthodox aid effectiveness agenda that has dominated aid discussions for a decade is misguided? And what if the calculations aid givers make when assessing risk are wrong? This event will present the findings of ODI’s Localising aid research and provide a forum to debate the latest thinking on how to make aid more effective.
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Localising aid: is it worth the risk?
Donors often perceive localising aid (transferring aid to local rather than international actors) as riskier than non-localised aid. But is this perception correct? This report finds that non-localised aid may carry higher risks of programme and strategic failure. -
The flip side of the coin: accountability as a precondition for meaningful budget transparency
'The transparency debate has taken a wrong-turn in the assumption that published budget information is a precondition for state accountability to citizens.'