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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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  2. Leni Wild

    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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  4. The technical is political: understanding the political implications of sector characteristics for education service delivery

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 2 September 2013
    Daniel Harris, Richard Batley, Claire Mcloughlin and Joseph Wales
    The education sector has characteristics that have political as well as technical implications. They affect the ways in which individuals and groups interact in relation to the delivery of education services. Achieving improvements in sector outcomes demands strategies that are politically feasible and effective as well as technically sufficient.
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  6. 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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  8. It's a risky business: aid and new approaches to political risk management

    Publication - Discussion papers - 28 June 2013
    Alina Rocha Menocal
    This paper focuses on political risk and argues that if international assistance is to promote political and institutional reform more effectively, it needs to become smarter – more politically aware, better attuned to context, more pragmatic and flexible, and, crucially, less risk averse. Understanding and managing political risk better and more systematically is essential to this.
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  10. Displaced women and children in northern Mali
    Displaced women and children in northern Mali

    License: Creative Commons
    Credit: EC/ECHO/Cyprien Fabre
    Source: Flickr

    Innovations in service delivery

    Projects - May 2013 to November 2013
    The World Bank is undertaking a study on local governance in zones of low density areas focusing on Mali. As part of this, ODI are reviewing experiences with delivery of essential services such as health, education, clean water, justice and conflict resolution in zones of low density population, insecurity and where different socio-economic groups coexist, with special attention given to nomadic and sedentary population.
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