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Credit: Guy Oliver
Source: IRIN
Dr Guy Scott MP, Vice President of the Republic of Zambia, will discuss the key challenges, opportunities and trade-offs that the new Government is facing in order to sustain and utilise high levels of growth to accelerate poverty reduction, address high levels of inequity, and improve governance.
The purpose of this session was to showcase and discuss some of the recent research work that has been carried out on budget support. The meeting touched on the current OECD/DAC sponsored budget support evaluations that are taking place in Mali, Tunisia, and Zambia. It will cover issues related to new evaluation methodologies, policy implications – responding to emerging or familiar unresolved questions such as the role of conditionality and the right objectives of budget support - and outstanding evidence gaps.
This Project Briefing reviews policy responses to the global financial crisis, setting out useful frameworks and concepts to inform more effective assistance for countries affected by future crises.
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Credit: Karen Ellis
Source: ODI
With funds flowing again to African agriculture, what can be done to help make Ministries of Agriculture more effective in the field? Is funding the issue, or is their use more important? What, in any case, should be the roles of the ministry at the district level? And thus what roles should NGOs and private enterprise play?
This meeting will discuss emerging insights from Ghana, Kenya, Malawi and Zambia.