There is an estimated $16.2 billion annual shortfall between available domestic resources and what is needed to reach the basic education goals in low-income countries. This Project Briefing examines obstacles to greater donor support.
The first of three Project Briefings to fill a knowledge gap on Sector Based Support (SBS), this overview finds that SBS has helped improve access to basic services but not their quality.
The second of three Project Briefings on Sector Based Support (SBS) focuses on good practice recommendations.
The third in series of Project Briefings on Sector Based Support examines policy implications, arguing that incentive are central to the SBS success or failure.
The effects of the global financial crisis on Uganda.
This report presents findings from a research study looking at the opportunities that carbon offset projects offer for poor rural communities.
Sector-wide approaches (SWAps) in agriculture remain expensive experiments, as a result of political, institutional and operational barriers.
The poorest countries will lose out if donors do not publish aid information that is easy to link with recipient government budget systems.
This project involves a series of country case studies on the effectiveness of international assistance to political party and party system development.
This paper argues that early recovery has functioned primarily as a way of framing activities, strategies and approaches that take place in humanitarian and transitional contexts, and that its added value is yet to be consistently proven.