Accountability starts with acknowledgment: local media and health care in Ethiopia
'In low-accountability contexts, acknowledging a problem is the first step towards enabling citizens, civil society and the media to hold governments to account.'
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Development Policy Review: March 2013 31(2)
VariousThe latest issue explores labour mobility and food security in African regions, the transmission of world prices to Ugandan coffee growers, fighting corruption in natural-resource governance, and assesses the role of tourism in poverty alleviation. -
Kenya election 2013: key challenges to consolidating democracy
'Yes, the Kenyan election is momentous and important... but social transformation and democratic consolidation is not instantaneous. This election is just the first step along what is bound to be a bumpy road to democracy.'
In this interview Alina Rocha Menocal, Research Fellow in the Politics and Governance programme at ODI, discusses the forthcoming elections in Kenya with Sarah Jenkins, Aberystwyth University. -
Ensuring the sustainability of governance programmes and their impact over time
Development actors have long raised concerns that the impact of demand-side governance projects cannot be sustained. Drawing from WaterAid’s experiences in India and Uganda this event will explore what kinds of approaches different Governance and Transparency Fund projects have sought to develop and implement in order both to ensure the sustainability of their interventions, and to help partner organisations become self-sustaining over the long term? What efforts have been most effective and why, and what are the challenges that still lie ahead?
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Are we making progress with building governance into the post 2015 framework?
Leni Wild and Gina BerghThis briefing assesses the current debate and proposals on the table for building governance into post 2015 goals. It offers ideas on what could usefully be prioritised, arguing that we need an ambitious approach which leaves behind policy blueprints of the past. -
The political economy of pre-trial detention
The objective of this paper is to develop an analytical framework that draws on political economy analysis (PEA) that can contribute to identifying the drivers of pre-trial detention. This can then be taken to country level to inform programming in ways that improve results. -
Malawi’s medical emergency
In the past couple of weeks the shortages of medicines in Malawi’s public health facilities has caused a public outcry. Several facts have emerged that draw attention to governance of the medicine sector, and to some of the reasons why shortages, which became worse during Bingu wa Mutharika’s term of office, continue in spite of attempts by government and donors to fix the problem.
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What does debt mean for governance?
'More effective governments are able to borrow more, and many do. Some that could, don’t. But hardly any governments that lack the corresponding level of effectiveness get away with high levels of debt.' -
Avoiding political potholes on the road to development
'Government decisions over road investments are based on complex political calculations...This means conditionality alone is unlikely to be effective in many cases.' -
Development Policy Review: January 2013
Development Policy Review Vol. 31, iss. 1Various authorsArticles in the latest issue explore engaging chiefs in security sector reforms in Sierra Leone, promoting livelihoods in South East Asia, budget support design schemes, development financing and domestic credit on manufactured exports.