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Afghanistan: Public Financial Management Performance Assessment - an Executive Summary
Asia and the Pacific, Local Governance and Decentralization, Public Administration, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThis paper presents an assessment of the performance of Afghanistan's Public Financial Management (PMF) systems. The assessment is based on a performance measurement framework developed by the Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) partnership program, which identifies a set of critical objectives of a PFM system and a standard set of high-level PFM indicators to assess...
Financial Management and Governance Issues in Pakistan
Asia and the Pacific, Local Governance and Decentralization, Public Administration, Report, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThis report describes financial management and governance arrangements in Pakistan, identifies deficiencies in those arrangements, and presents recommendations to address those deficiencies. For the purposes of this study, financial management and governance arrangements are narrowly defined as being accounting and auditing arrangements and practices. It was prepared for the Asian Development...
The Republic of Armenia: Public Financial Management Performance Measurement Report
Europe and CIS, Local Governance and Decentralization, Public Administration, Report, GovernmentThe Government of the Republic of Armenia (ROA) views lasting sustainable economic growth and poverty reduction in the country as priority strategic goals. The existence of a comprehensive, robust, transparent, and controllable public finance management (PFM) system is a key guarantee for achieving these objectives. The Ministry of Finance (MOF) with support from the World Bank, has initiated...
National AIDS Spending Assessment (NASA) Training for AIDS Budget Unit Research Partners - Namibia
Africa, Human Rights, Local Governance and Decentralization, Public Administration, Report, Civil SocietyThis training workshop was organized in order to equip the research partners on the main research tool which they will use to carry out research on “HIV/AIDS financing and spending: A local government perspective”. This was a follow up to the methodology workshop organized by Idasa-GAP which was held in Tanzania in 2009. This report summarizes the methodology and...
The role of civil society in decentralisation and alleviating poverty - An exploratory case study from Tanzania
Africa, Article / Working Paper, Civil Society, Local Governance and Decentralization, Public Administration, Academic/Think TankIn many developing countries decentralisation efforts have been planned and implemented as a means to improve service delivery to all citizens, to increase citizen participation, and to improve good governance at the sub-national level. However, until recently, poverty reduction has not been a central feature of decentralisation measures until recently. Donors have begun to realise the...
The state of local governance and public services in decentralized Indonesia
Article / Working Paper, Asia and the Pacific, Local Governance and Decentralization, Public Administration, Civil SocietyDecentralization has been implemented in Indonesia since 2001. Many efforts to improve it have been supported by international and bilateral donor agencies. The Governance and Decentralization Survey (GDS) is one of the initiatives that aim to monitor and evaluate the implementation of the governance and decentralization policy. This publication is about a GDS survey which...
When bottom-up meets top-down: the limits of local participation in local government planning in Tanzania
Africa, Governance and MDG, Local Governance and Decentralization, Public Administration, Civil SocietyThis report discusses district level planning as perceived by representatives of different districts in Tanzania. It refers to planning as a process of making choices of interventions in pursuit of sustainable development in relation to the Millennium Development Goals. It makes a distinction between top-down and bottom-up approaches and points out the lack of clarity among...
Comparing quantitative results from three different methods: do they tell the same story?
Article / Working Paper, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Carribean, Local Governance and Decentralization, Public Administration, Academic/Think TankThis Briefing Note from Oxford Policy Management explores the experience from two studies in the Maldives and in Jamaica. In both studies a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods was used, linked by a scorecard approach. By ‘scorecard’ we refer to a set of questions that is the same in the focus groups and the quantitative interviews. Using the results from...
Social Accountability in Africa
Africa, Book, Civil Society, Conflict, Governance and Gender, Governance and MDG, Local Governance and Decentralization, Media, Public Administration, Inter-Governmental Organization, Civil SocietyThe publication is intended to serve as a knowledge resource to support policy-makers, public policy practitioners, law-makers, public institutions, public managers, the research and academic community, civil society, donor organisations, international and multilateral development agencies and all those actively involved and concerned with the subject of the ‘governance-accountability...
The Politics of Poverty: Elites, Citizens and States
Civil Society, Conflict, Governance and Gender, Local Governance and Decentralization, Public Administration, Academic/Think Tank, Inter-Governmental Organization, Civil Society, DonorA new DFID synthesis report,The Politics of Poverty: Elites, Citizen and States, shows how research from four major DFID-funded research programmes closing this year is changing academic and policy thinking on governance. Governance is sometimes seen as an intangible concept. But, at root it is a simple one. Governance describes the way countries and societies manage their affairs...