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This policy brief details how the humanitarian sector needs to embrace an approach to protracted urban displacement that tackles both its political and programmatic challenges.
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Job creation impact study: Bugoye Hydropower Plant, Uganda
This study looks at the job creation impact of the Bugoye Hydro Power Project (BHPP) in Uganda. The purpose of the study is to enable the Private Infrastructure Development Group to understand the impact that the project has had on jobs and to help develop a methodology for similar studies on other projects. -
Shining a light on land deals: sharing lessons for transparency
The ‘3Ts’ of the G8 summit – tax, trade and transparency – are interlinked, especially through the axis between transparency and tax, as Kevin Watkins outlines. Discussions on tax are bringing to light the hidden worlds of corporate tax avoidance and tax evasion by individuals, whereas – led by the UK – the transparency agenda is focusing on land, open data and extractives.
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Hands at the tap
Several hands cup the water flowing from a tap
License: Creative Commons
Credit: Julius Mwelu/IRIN
Source: IRINUnblocking results: can aid get public services flowing?
This event will explore the findings and policy implications of the latest ODI research on how aid can be best packaged to support governance and institutional development. The research draws on case studies in Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Uganda.
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Getting to scale in urban water supply
12This brief offers lessons for scale-up deriving from Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor's 2008-2012 programme in Maputo (Mozambique) and Antananarivo (Madagascar). -
Leaping and learning: linking smallholders to markets
This ODI and Agriculture for Impact event will launch two new publications discussing how to help smallholder farmers to make better links to markets in Africa.
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Unblocking results: using aid to address governance constraints in public service delivery
How can aid better support developing country governments to delivery public services? This report proposes a new way to deliver aid that strengthens incentives for performance in the public sector. -
Leaping and learning: linking smallholders to markets
This report provides a comprehensive review of the existing literature on smallholder-centred market-based interventions. -

The legislator's dilemma: following or moving against the tide of perverse incentives
'Perverse incentives are everywhere in African politics: to deal with them we need to think pragmatically about who is the best actor to deliver accountability.' -
Economic crisis, international tourism decline and its impact on the poor
Dr Christian Steiner, Dr Thomas Richter, Dr Sabine Dörry, Dipl Geogr. Vera Neisen, Dr Marcus L Stephenson, Alberto Lemma, Jonathan MitchellThe 2009 global economic crisis has significantly impacted international tourism, causing a decline in international tourist arrivals and international tourism revenues. This study looks into the effects of the decrease in international tourism demand on the employment, income opportunities and the livelihoods of poor and vulnerable groups, as well as on the capacity of households to cope with such shocks. The report combines a comparative large-N macroeconomic analysis with case studies on the Maldives, Costa Rica and Tanzania.












