This is the sixth in a series of annual conferences on development finance and public financial management reform organised by the Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure at ODI. The conference will focus on the practical and policy aspects of how to use finance to support fragile states in their transition out of fragility and the associated implications for public financial management. The conference is being organised jointly with the IMF Fiscal Affairs Department.
Bangladesh, Bolivia, Cambodia and Uganda This is the overview paper reviews the progress of Bangladesh, Bolivia, Cambodia and Uganda towards reaching the MDGs
This report highlights the tension faced by governments between the need for good public financial management on the one hand, and the challenge of meeting international commitments on the other, raising the impossibility of meeting the key development spending targets simultaneously. The study has a particular focus on social protection in response to growing government and donor interest in the affordability of provision in this sector.
This Background Note sets out possible steps to improve aid effectiveness in Uganda, and ensure that the partnership between government and donors remains relevant.
This Project Briefing, the third of three, draws on ODI research in Uganda and Zambia on aid accountability in the health sector and the role of donors. It suggests that donors need greater interaction with domestic processes and accountability mechanisms.
This report presents data on how countries are closing in on the MDG targets. It unpacks the targets and indicators to map out how the development process is playing out across countries and continents.
There is too little mutual accountability between national governments and donors, according to ODI research in Uganda and Zambia on aid accountability in the health sector.
The aid effectiveness agenda has had a mixed impact on domestic accountability in health so far, according to the first of three Project Briefings on this issue, based on research in Uganda and Zambia.
