Search Results - "public service"

The emergence of collectively owned self-supply water supply systems in rural South Africa – what can we learn from the Tshakhuma case in Limpopo? by Hofstetter, Moritz, van Koppen, Barbara, Bolding, A.

“…Despite the rapid extension of public service delivery since the end of Apartheid, many rural citizens in South Africa still rely on their own initiatives and infrastructure to access water. …”
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Book review | Pro-poor development policies: Lessons from the Philippines and East Asia by Bouis, Howarth E.

“…ABOUT THE BOOK: Pro-Poor Development Policies: Lessons from the Philippines and East Asia is a collection of 25 essays on Philippine economic development, written by eminent scholars, to honor the illustrious academic and public service of Arsenio M. Balisacan. Professor Balisacan’s numerous publications cover wide areas of economic development, including poverty, inequality, human development, agricultural and rural development, competition policy, and political economy of policy reforms. …”
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Local governance and public goods provision in rural China by Zhang, Xiaobo, Fan, Shenggen, Zhang, Linxiu, Huang, Jikun

“…Using a recent village survey conducted over a significant period of time, this paper compares governance by elected officials with that of appointed cadres and finds that elected officials tend to tax constituents less and provide them with higher levels of public service. -- Authors' Abstract."…”
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Gender and collective action: Policy implications from recent research by Pandolfelli, Lauren, Dohrn, Stephan, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.

“…Collective action plays a vital role in many people’s lives, through such areas as income generation, risk reduction, public service provision, and the management of natural resources. …”
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Annual report 2020: CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets by CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets

“…In 2020, PIM findings contributed to seed policies in Nepal and Uganda, Malawi’s extension strategy and approval of insect-resistant cotton, a nationwide program aimed at improving the effectiveness of public service delivery in Uganda, social protection programs in Egypt, and school gardens for better nutrition in Papua New Guinea. …”
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Aid effectiveness in poverty alleviation in a post-conflict, post-disaster situation: A case study of district Swat, Pakistan by Ali, Murad

“…Thus, the project posits that efficient utilisation of foreign aid leads to effective financial and human resource management and better public service delivery and fits in well within the theme of ‘quality governance’ envisaged by the GoP in its Vision 2025.…”
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Involving men and women for effective groups by CGIAR Program on Collective Action and Property Rights

“…Collective action plays a vital role in many people's lives, particularly for income generation, risk reduction, public service provision, and the management of natural resources. …”
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Rural-urban transformation in Uganda by Mukwaya, Paul, Bamutaze, Yazidhi, Benson, Todd, Mugarura, Samuel

“…Without close attention to putting in place effective public service delivery, the additional revenue from the newly discovered oil is unlikely to lead to the progress desired in rural areas by government.…”
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How can public professional services be restored in a weak state? Options for animal health in Congo's south Kivu by Leonard, David K., Mushi, M.F., Robinson, Timothy P.

“…How does one deal with a shortcoming in a public service when even a state “pocket of effectiveness” is unlikely to fill it directly? …”
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Leveraging climate finance for gender equality and poverty reduction: A comparative study by Atmadja, S., Liswanti, N., Tamara, A., Lestari, H., Djoudi, H.

“…The study aims to understand climate finance for advancing gender equality and poverty reduction, by assessing different mechanisms: 1) the Village Fund (Dana Desa); 2) the Public Service Agency for Forest Development Financing Center (BLUP3H); 3) the Indonesia Climate Change Trust Fund (ICCTF); 4) the Special Allocation Fund (DAK); and 5) the Environmental Fund Management Agency (BPD-LH). …”
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Urbanization and structural transformation by Schmidt, Emily, Dorosh, Paul A., Kedir Jemal, Mekamu, Smart, Jenny

“…By 2050 urbanization is expected to reach 38 percent with major implications for relative wage rates in rural versus urban areas, infrastructure needs, and public service delivery. Improved road infrastructure is improving connectivity across the country and promoting secondary city development. …”
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Using ICT for remote sensing, crowdsourcing, and big data to unlock the potential of agricultural data by Woodard, Josh, Andriessen, Mechteld, Cohen, Courtney, Cox, Cindy M., Fritz, Steffen, Johnson, Drew, Koo, Jawoo, McLean, Morven, See, Linda, Speck, Tara, Sturn, Tobias

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Do external grants to district governments discourage own-revenue generation?: A look at local public finance dynamics in Ghana by Mogues, Tewodaj, Benin, Samuel, Cudjoe, Godsway

“…Decentralization is expected to lead to greater efficiency in the allocation of public resources, as subnational governments are said to have better information than central government about the needs for and requirements of public services in their jurisdictions, especially in agricultural and rural areas, where information about rural residents' priorities is more limited. …”
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Agricultural R & D in Colombia: policy, investments, and institutional profile by Beintema, Nienke M., Romano, Luis J., Pardey, Philip G.

“…Staff were no longer public employees, but hired on a contract basis, thereby freeing research salary structures from public service strictures and freeing management’s hand to manage it’s staff. …”
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Policy note on Kenya’s draft agriculture sector Gender Policy by Waithanji, Elizabeth M.

“…Women and men converged in their observation that the ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Cooperatives, the ministry of Public Service Youth and Gender, and their corresponding county level departments were the stakeholders for who the Agriculture Sector Gender policy is most relevant. …”
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A 2006 Social Accounting Matrix for Rwanda by Diao, Xinshen

“…Similarly, the service sector consists of 9 private and 3 public service subsectors. The 2006 SAM data files comprises of two worksheets; one for the SAM data and the other containing legend to the SAM data. …”
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Institutional arrangements to make public spending responsive to the poor—(where) have they worked? Review of the evidence on four major intervention types by Mogues, Tewodaj, Erman, Alvina

“…There has been some recognition in the development community that building technical capacity of public service providers and increasing resources is not enough to bring about development outcomes. …”
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Rights-based freshwater governance for the twenty-first century: beyond an exclusionary focus on domestic water uses by van Koppen, Barbara, Hellum, A., Mehta, L., Derman, B., Schreiner, B.

“…On that basis, the chapter explores concrete implications of the Comment for states’ broader infrastructure-based water services implied in the recognised need to access to infrastructure, rights to non-discrimination in public service delivery and respect of people’s own prioritisation. …”
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Drivers of rural exodus from Amazonian headwaters by Parry, L., Day, B., Amaral, S., Peres, C.A.

“…Specifically, we examine the relative importance of public service provision and natural resources in determining settlement patterns along, and rural–urban migration from, eight rivers in road-less regions of the Brazilian Amazon. …”
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Review of sheep crossbreeding based on exotic sires and among indigenous breeds in the tropics: An Ethiopian perspective by Getachew, T., Haile, Aynalem, Wurzinger, Maria, Rischkowsky, Barbara A., Gizaw, Solomon, Abebe, A., Sölkner, Johann

“…Crossbreeding programs require strong research and development support from public service and non-governmental institutions for sustainable design, optimization, and implementation in clearly defined production environments.…”
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