Publications
This section offers a selection of publications related to capacity development.
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Project implementation units raise fundamental issues related to national ownership and capacity development. This practice note recommends a range of alternative management methods that incorporate capacity development, such as sector-wide approaches, gap filling (i.e. the integration of exter...
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This paper argues that accountability mechanisms may not always respond to the needs of marginalised groups in society and that attention needs to be paid to the social and institutional context in which they are placed. To be successful, accountability mechanisms need to emphasise building bro...
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User committees have proliferated in less-developed countries. They are intended to give ordinary people the opportunity to influence development programmes and projects. In some cases, they have had a positive impact. However, this article argues that they may be having a damaging effect on de...
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This book seeks to further understanding on the web of institutions that form the mechanisms of accountability, the interaction between these institutions, and interaction between electoral accountability, intrastate accountability, and societal oversight.
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In Porto Alegre, Brazil, thousands of ordinary citizens participate in local governance, making binding decisions on urban policy on a daily basis. While there has been immense attention paid to the practice of participatory democracy in Porto Alegre, this is the first book to examine the polit...
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Aug 2007This guide offers a systematic overview of the activities and approaches a non-governmental organisation might want to undertake in its initial years of budget advocacy work. The guide is available online and in print, and is intended for groups or individuals that are relatively new to the fie...
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This paper addresses the definition of mutual accountability and its key challenges. It reviews existing mechanisms to promote mutual accountability at country level (in Tanzania, Mozambique, Vietnam and Afghanistan) and at the international level, and offers recommendations for donors and reci...
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This publication chronicles the attempt by Save the Children (UK) to set up an accountability project within the agency’s food aid intervention in Zimbabwe. A key intention was to set up a mechanism that specifically included children in the process of creating better accountability towards com...
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This case study provides an interesting example of how budget work can affect policy and how a budget organisation can develop in response to a particularly compelling problem that people mobilise around - in this case money in a ‘secret fund’ that the President could use without any accountabi...
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The publication, available in English and French, traces the influence and continued dominance of the French public finance model on francophone African legislative and public finance systems. A summary of the publication can be found at this website.