This report develops a pragmatic approach which focuses on the net costs and benefits of quitting GBS in favour of a set of defined alternatives, quantified in terms of expected impact on spending in priority areas of the MGDS – a proxy for ‘pro poor spending’.
Malawi Options Appraisal and Public Expenditure Analysis
This paper is one of three comparing cash with other forms of transfers, identifying where cash transfers may be preferable, the preconditions for cash transfers to work well and how they may best be targeted and sequenced with other initiatives. This paper focuses on Malawi.
The International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) aims to deliver a step shift in public availability and accessibility of information on aid flows, globally. ODI are to undertake the analysis and research required to establish what information IATI donors will publish.
National frameworks to reduce poverty and adapt to climate change rarely, if ever, interlink.
As the number of mobile phone subscribers soars worldwide, this Opinion argues that increasing mobile penetration brings developmental benefits, but effective regulation is required to ensure fair competition and encourage roll-out to underserved areas.
The Opinion outlines three kinds of development benefits resulting from mobile phone technology. First, incremental -- improving what people already do. Second, transformational - offering people something new, such as m-banking. And third, production benefits that result from the creation of new livelihoods.
Millions in Africa rely on groundwater, making it critical to understand the impact of cliamte change on this natural resource. This Background Note identifies the most pressing research needs.
This Briefing Paper argues that the production of biofuels could present opportunities for poor southern farmers.
This Project Briefing examines the key lessons from the Australian Partnerships with African Communities (APAC) programme to address emerging development challenges in Eastern and Southern Africa, using community-based approaches.
Handing out cash to vulnerable people in the Malawi cash transfers scheme
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Credit: Rachel Slater and Rebecca Holmes
Source: ODI
ODI has been contracted by SOAS as part of a larger contract with DfID titled: Monitoring and Evaluation of Support for Government of Malawi Input Subsidy programme. The objective of the project is to a) evaluate the payoffs of national investments in the input subsidy programme, and b) identify opportunities for improving these investment returns. These objectives are to are to pursued with respect to five main aspects of implementation, performance and impacts.