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Grievance redress mechanisms (GRMs) in the public sector are institutionalized processes designed to enable people to complain about and seek redress for services they rightfully should have received. This paper reviews evidence on GRMs from around the world, focusing on mechanisms attached to public services and programs in the Global South, where they are relatively new and emerging fast. GRMs matter in particular in the Global South because they are increasingly widespread and found in...

ALGUNS GRANDES DESAFIOS ACTUAIS PARA O DESENVOLVIMENTO EM ÁFRICA Há uma série de grandes desafios para transformação social, política e económica no continente africano que têm de ser enfrentados. Primeiro, é necessário passar da adopção e aplicação de “receitas” de desenvolvimento político, social e económico, frequentemente até irrelevantes para as questões de desenvolvimento que dizem tratar, para uma abordagem de economia política do desenvolvimento enraizada na análise das condições...

Integrated community case management (iCCM) has now been implemented at scale globally. Literature to-date has focused primarily on the effectiveness of iCCM and the systems conditions required to sustain iCCM. In this study, we sought to explore opportunities taken and lost for strengthening health systems through successive iCCM programmes. We employed a systematic, embedded, multiple case study design for three countries—Ethiopia, Malawi and Mozambique—where Save the Children implemented...

Figuring out “what is the work?” we actually do sounds like a simple task, but in fact, it’s surprisingly difficult.

Illicit flows are a major part of the political and economic landscape of northern Mozambique. In South Africa, the trade in poached abalone and the trafficking of synthetic drug still remain joined today. The impact that heroin capsules have had in Durban in terms of violence, profitability and local demand for heroin. How illicit gold from South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo flows through Uganda

Efforts to strengthen the accountability of the governing to the governed go back millennia. However, in the past decade there has been a renewed debate about how to advance public accountability. One domain where this conversation has taken place is that of efforts funded by donors (government development agencies and private philanthropies), primarily in the Global South and implemented by a set of national and international actors, including NGOs, private sector project implementors, and...

Conflict and an ensuing humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region have led to substantial population displacement and threaten the lives and livelihoods of millions. In a situation where rising needs outstripped preliminary humanitarian responses and where safety net programmes that were purposed for shock-response have been curtailed or stopped functioning altogether, what are the […]

Although social protection has the potential to address crises in different ways, the evidence base is thematically and geographically patchy. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office-funded (FCDO)-funded Better Assistance in Crises (BASIC) Research programme aims to inform policy and programming on effective social assistance in situations of crisis, including those experiencing climate-related shocks and stressors, protracted conflict and forced displacement.

A review of key developments in 2020 with a look toward trends to watch in the coming year.

This paper aimed at estimating the resources required to implement a community Score Card by a typical rural district health team in Uganda, as a mechanism for fostering accountability, utilization and quality of maternal and child healthcare service.

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This report addresses the relationship between population growth, age structure, and conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The literature reviewed for this report presents strong evidence that age structure and population growth matter for conflict. There is particularly strong evidence that points to the relationship between young age structure and conflict, although studies that disaggregate types of conflict and characteristics of young age structures (urban, male, etc.) tend to offer...

According to the Homeland Security Today website, the statement lists "guidelines for dealing with the epidemic". For the Islamic State, the main advice is "to trust God and take refuge in Him from disease", but followers have an "obligation" to take protective measures to prevent it. Among these measures, the terrorist group emphasizes that "the healthy should not enter the land of the epidemic and the sick must not leave it". According to the council, terrorists should not travel to Europe...

Development donors invest significantly in governance reform, including in contexts characterised by conflict and fragility. However, there is relatively little comparative study of their change strategies, and little understanding of what works and why. This paper explores the strategies of six recent DFID-funded programmes in Mozambique, Myanmar, and Pakistan with empowerment and accountability aims. Document review and field interviews are used to analyse the application of multi-scalar...

On 9 December 2005, All ASEAN member countries signed the Agreement to Establish and Implement the ASEAN Single Window. ASEAN Single Window (ASW) is a one window system that connects ASEAN countries or National Single Window (NSW) to facilitate the electronic exchange of customs data that can be used by traders to obtain permits, customs clearance, and other documents. Indonesia has been implementing this Agreement from 2008 with the system of Indonesia National Single Window (INSW) in order...

Africa has abundant potential to generate hydroelectric power. Yet with an uneven record of building large dams, much of this potential remains untapped. This thesis addresses the question of why some large dam projects have been built and others have not. The problem of credible commitment by host governments to prospective investors is central to the explanation. The problem is that while large dam projects require large investments over...

Mozambique and France are discussing a military maritime cooperation agreement, a diplomatic source in the European country told Lusa in the context of possible support in the fight against terrorism in Cabo Delgado. "No operational military support has been provided to Cabo Delgado by the French

The main focus of the report is the impact of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic on democracy and freedom around the world. It looks at how the pandemic resulted in the withdrawal of civil liberties on a massive scale and fuelled an existing trend of intolerance and censorship of dissenting opinion (see page 14). The report also examines the state of US democracy after a tumultuous year dominated by the coronavirus pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement and a hotly contested presidential...

Research has highlighted disparities in family planning outcomes by wealth and by region separately. This analysis examines regional disparities within specific poverty groups. Twelve USAID family planning priority countries with recent DHS or AIS surveys were selected for the analysis, including 11 DHS surveys (Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Ghana, Haiti, Malawi, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Rwanda Uganda, and Zambia) and one AIS survey (Mozambique). The measure of absolute...

Since the start of the reform in the late 1990s, Indonesia has implemented an ambitious decentralization policy. One of its aims is to foster regional development from below by giving subnational governments a greater discretion in determining programmes that are more aspirational to the interests of the community and to local and regional development objectives. The decentralized government system has been implemented for almost two decades, yet limited studies have been conducted to...