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1. Citizens and service delivery: assessing the use of social accountability approaches in the human development sectors

   Event - Public event - 9 December 2011 13:00 - 14:30 (GMT+00)

   This event will explore the World Bank Report on 'Citizens and service delivery: assessing the use of social accountability approaches in the human development sectors.'
   
   Some social accountability tools aim to inform citizens and communities about their rights, the standards of service delivery they should expect, and the actual performance of their providers.  Others seek to facilitate access to formal redress mechanisms to address service delivery failures. 
   

   • What do we know about how these approaches actually work in practice? 
   • Can giving people information and opportunities to use this information actually improve service delivery? 
   • And what are the implications for development agencies such as the World Bank? 

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   Situation analysis of children and poverty in Uganda: voices of children

   Publication - Research reports and studies - 1 September 2011

   Paola Pereznieto, David Walker, Eliana Villar and Hanna Alder

   This report researches the lives of Ugandan children who are living in a situation of poverty, specifically addressing their experiences of poverty.

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   Building citizenship through social policy in the Eastern Caribbean: the role of social guarantees

   Publication - Research reports and studies - 1 July 2011

   Maximillian Ashwill and Andrew Norton

   This volume demonstrates how the social guarantees approach can be applied to social policy design, delivery and monitoring at the country level, especially in the island states of the Eastern Caribbean.

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4. Nordic Trust Fund: Desk study on development, fragility and human rights

   Projects - May 2011 to October 2011

   This study will present an overview of human rights related challenges, risks, experiences, benefits, and lessons learned in relation to development in fragile and conflict-affected situations, to be used in a World Bank training resource center on human rights and possibly for the development of an associated e-learning module for Bank staff.

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   Togo Girls

   Image of two girls from Togo
   License: Creative Commons
   Credit: Paul-W
   

   Expanding frontiers in gender and development

   Event - Public event - 7 March 2011 10:00 - 12:30 (GMT+00)

   March 8 2011 marks the centenary of International Women’s Day, a day that celebrates the economic, political and social achievements of women, and also serves as a reminder of the inequities still to be addressed. This event will  aim to identify new frontiers in important areas of gender and development including gender-based violence, climate change, economic and social empowerment, and governance, with the possibility for highlighting promising new initiatives and the potential to go to scale.

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   Spatial poverty traps: an overview

   Publication - Discussion papers - 8 December 2010

   ODI Working Papers 321

   Kate Bird, Kate Higgins and Dan Harris

   This paper provides introduces a joint ODI and CPRC Working Paper Series, ‘Spatial Poverty Traps – What Are They and What Can Be Done About Them?’ The series seeks to progress thinking and debate on the spatial dimensions of development, with a specific focus on poverty.

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   Rethinking social protection using a gender lens

   Publication - Discussion papers - 23 October 2010

   ODI Working Papers 320

   Rebecca Holmes and Nicola Jones

   This paper synthesises findings from a multi-country research project examining the extent to which existing social protection programming approaches are reinforcing women’s traditional roles and responsibilities, or harnessing the potential for social protection to transform gender relations in economic and social spheres.

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   Tackling child vulnerabilities through social protection: lessons from West and Central Africa

   Publication - Discussion papers - 21 July 2010

   ODI Background Notes

   Nicola Jones and Rebecca Holmes

   This Background Note synthesises learning on child-sensitive social protection in West and Central Africa, drawing on country case studies in Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Republic of Congo (Congo) and Senegal.

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   Opportunities and challenges in promoting policy- and practice-relevant knowledge on child rights

   Publication - Discussion papers - 19 July 2010

   ODI Working Papers 318

   Caroline Harper, Nicola Jones and Carlotta Tincati

   This paper analyses the linkages between knowledge and policy in child rights issues, and presents frameworks and lessons through which to promote the appropriate design of rights strategies.

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10. 

    School-based violence in Colombia: links to state-level armed conflict, educational effects and challenges

    Publication - Discussion papers - 1 July 2010

    Eliana Villar-Márquez with Caroline Harper

    This background paper prepared for the Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2011, "The hidden crisis: Armed conflict and education". This case study explores school-based violence in the context of armed conflict between the government and guerrilla organisations in Colombia.

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