This paper provides a rapid review of recent literature on international practice and experience in supporting pro-poor service provision in fragile states. It focuses on the water supply, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector.
This paper provides a rapid review of recent literature on international practice and experience in supporting pro-poor service provision in fragile states. It focuses specifically on the health sector.
This paper provides a rapid review of recent literature on international practice and experience in supporting pro-poor service provision in fragile states.
This paper examines the potential for jointly funded long-term cash transfers to form part of social protection in unstable situations. It argues that there are three essential challenges: financing – how to provide longer term, more harmonised and predictable funding for social transfers in unstable situations; actors and delivery capacity – which actors or combinations of actors could deliver social transfers at scale (governments, NGOs, UN agencies, or the private sector); mechanisms – the form a social transfer should take (food or cash).
'There has been a significant shift in thinking regarding the relationship between relief and development over the past decade. This has been driven by a number of factors, including an increased focus on linking aid and security'.