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An overview of Lagoro IDP camp in Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 20 May 2007. Manoocher Deghati/IRIN
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  1. IDP in Somalia
    IDP in Somalia

    Displaced people wait to be given food during a distribution organised by the UN World Food Programme, USAID and other local and international NGOs, in Mogadishu Somalia on September 2008.
    License: ODI given rights
    Credit: © Jamal Osman/IRIN
    Source: IRIN

    A results take-over of aid effectiveness? How to balance multiple or competing calls for more accountability

    Event - Public event - 25 July 2011 12:00 - 13:30 (GMT+01 (BST))

    This event is the second in a series of events focusing on aid effectiveness in the lead up to Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan in November 2011.

    This debate will explore possible tensions, as well as opportunities, where donors seek to reassure domestic publics that aid is being spent well while they also endeavour to support the needs and priorities of aid recipient countries and their citizens.

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  3. Working with the grain and swimming against the tide: Barriers to uptake of research findings on governance and public services in low-income Africa

    Publication - Discussion papers - 30 April 2011
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    David Booth
    Under-provision of essential public goods is a key source of the malaise of development in sub-Saharan Africa. It is widely accepted that this is a governance problem. This paper draws on findings from the Africa Power and Politics Programme research stream which is investigating institutional sources of variation in public goods provision at sub-national levels.
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  5. Public sector innovation in the developing world

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

    This ODI event examines emerging lessons for public sector reform. It will draw on some of the latest thinking on innovation in public sector reforms in a number of OECD countries, as well as recent experiences in strengthening public sectors in a range of fragile and post-conflict countries.

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  9. Towards a theory of local governance and public goods’ provision in sub-Saharan Africa

    Publication - Discussion papers - 31 August 2010
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    David Booth
    This paper provides a midterm report on a multi-country research effort to shed light on the institutional sources of variation in public goods’ provision at the sub-national level, with a particular focus on key bottlenecks to improvement in maternal mortality, water and sanitation, facilitation of markets and enterprise, and public order and security.
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