Rural water supply in Uganda: Major strides in sector coordination and performance
Simon O’Meally
Part of the Development Progress Stories series, both the report and the case study focus on Uganda's progress in rural water supply.
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Uganda Social Assistance Grants for Empowerment (SAGE) peer review panel
ODI has been commissioned to provide oversight and quality control of the evaluation component of the Social Assistance Grants for Empowerment (SAGE) programme through playing a role on the Evaluation Peer Review Panel. -
Jobs, growth and poverty: what do we know, what don't we know, what should we know?
Claire Melamed, Renate Hartwig and Ursula GrantThis Background Note summarises the current state of thinking about the relationships between growth episodes and employment, and highlights five trends that are likely to shape effective policy in this area. -
Towards a holistic conceptualisation of adaptive capacity at the local level: insights from the Local Adaptive Capacity framework (LAC)
Demonstrated through findings from field research across three African countries (Ethiopia, Mozambique and Uganda), this paper argues that frameworks for understanding and supporting adaptive capacity at the local level need to move away from focusing only on what communities have that enable them to adapt. -
The affordability of social protection in the light of international spending commitments
This paper explores the affordability of social protection and other development sectors by comparing target levels in international agreements to actual government expenditure in five African countries. -
Beyond the ballot box: building bridges between citizens and the state in Uganda
Elections represent a critical opportunity for the ordinary citizen to hold a government to account. They also perform a vital function in facilitating and legitimising political change. But elections do not always deliver meaningful change and are at risk of being superficial if certain fundamental conditions are not in place. A greater focus is therefore needed on those channels that connect citizens and the state more substantively, including political parties and progress towards a fiscal contract.
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Responding to external economic shocks: why state capacity and political incentives matter
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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International assistance to political party and party system development
What might more effective support for political party and party system development look like? This synthesis report draws on country studies from Georgia, Nepal, Nigeria and Uganda as well as a regional review of Latin American experiences to consider this, and provides operational recommendations for the future. -
Isolation and poverty: the relationship between spatially differentiated access to goods and services and poverty
Kate Bird, Andy McKay and Isaac ShinyekwaThis paper examines the relationship between isolation and different aspects of poverty in Uganda, and discusses policy implications for tackling poverty in remote areas and integrating the population into the process of growth.
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Support to political parties: a missing piece of the governance puzzle
Attempts to build better governance and more accountable states cannot ignore the key role of political parties. This Briefing Paper considers the importance of political parties in relation to governance and accountability processes.