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Using information and communication technologies to improve service delivery

Opinion - Podcasts and audio - 30 September 2013

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.

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Localising aid: is it worth the risk?

Publication - Research reports and studies - 1 July 2013

Alastair McKechnie

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.

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The legislator's dilemma: following or moving against the tide of perverse incentives

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 29 May 2013

'Perverse incentives are everywhere in African politics: to deal with them we need to think pragmatically about who is the best actor to deliver accountability.'

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Transparency and accountability: bringing the politics back in

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 21 May 2013

'Over the past two decades, citizen-led initiatives to hold power holders to account have taken the world by storm. But can they live up to the hype?'

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Tackling corruption: can citizens make a difference?

Event - Public event - 14 May 2013 10:30 - 12:00 (GMT+01 (BST))

This event will analyse innovative civil society initiatives to combat corruption and promote greater accountability in different settings across the developing world, seeking to understand when such efforts have been successful and why.

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Localising aid: sustaining change in the public, private and civil society sectors

Publication - Research reports and studies - 15 March 2013

Jonathan Glennie, Alastair McKechnie, Gideon Rabinowitz and Ahmed Ali

This major new report looks at whether transferring aid to or through national systems and organisations strengthens them over the long term.

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Development Policy Review: March 2013 31(2)

Publication - Journal articles or issues - 1 March 2013

Development Policy Review 31 2

Various

The latest issue explores labour mobility and food security in African regions, the transmission of world prices to Ugandan coffee growers, fighting corruption in natural-resource governance, and assesses the role of tourism in poverty alleviation.

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Inconvenient truths about corruption and development

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 21 November 2012

Corruption has never been more prominent in the development debate. Here in the UK, eliminating corruption is at the heart of the Prime Minister’s golden thread, and has been a leitmotif of his government’s approach to aid: we will commit to 0.7%, but we will be tougher on how it is spent.

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Strengthening civil-Society in Tanzania - is Outcome Mapping helping the Accountability in Tanzania programme and its partners influence change?

Publication - Research reports and studies - 30 June 2012

Simon Hearn and Kisuma Mapunda

This report explores the question of whether Outcome Mapping is an effective tool in helping Accountability in Tanzania strengthen its partners’ capacity to influence change towards greater accountability and strengthened governance.

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