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An overview of Lagoro IDP camp in Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 20 May 2007. Manoocher Deghati/IRIN
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  1. Helen Tilley

    Unblocking results in Tanzanian rural water supply

    Opinion - Podcasts and audio - 14 August 2013
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    “When donors are investing in the [water] sector, they need to think beyond infrastructure – it’s not a matter of counting the number of pipes and pumps which need to be bought. You must look at the social structures and institutional setups that need to be in place…to deliver the services that are actually required.”

    ODI research on how governance constraints can undermine the effective delivery of public services in developing countries identified a number of ways aid can help to ‘unblock results’ and get services flowing.

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  2. Dirk Willem te Velde

    The EU budget: it is not the volume that matters most, but where it goes and why

    Opinion - Articles and blogs - 20 November 2012

    The EU’s budget for the period 2014-2020 will take centre stage at a European summit later this week. There will be much discussion over the size of the budget:  will it be cuts, a freeze or more of the same?  However, new ODI research suggests it is not the volume that matters most for EU citizens or for global development, but the direction of spending and the distribution of the EU budget across headings.

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  6. Pipelines and donkey carts - A social risk analysis of water availability, access and use in Nyala, South Darfur

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 30 September 2011
    Alan Nicol, Mohamed Abdulrahman Elamin and Nawal Hassan Osman with Mahbouba Abdelrahman Ali, Suleiman Mohamed Nour, Tayalla Elmedani, Sumaya Mohamed Yagoub and Aisha Mustafa El-Neima Mohamed
    This study seeks to examine the social impact of increased water availability in Nyala, provided for through Darfur Urban Water Supply Project, particularly to understand in more detail how the existing ‘water economy’ of Nyala may change as the resource is made more available via an expanded town network, and how this change may affect the poor and contribute to or mitigate future conflict.
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