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This report examines the legal, administrative, and regulatory barriers that are preventing women in Kenya from contributing fully to the Kenyan economy. Building on the 2004 Foreign Investment and Advisory Service (FIAS) report, “Improving the Commercial Legal Framework and Removing Administrative and Regulatory Barriers to Investment,” this study looks at the bureaucratic barriers facing women in Kenya through a gender lens. The report makes specific recommendations to address...

This section presents the main results of the CIVICUS Civil Society Index (CSI) research project in Mozambique conducted between March and December 2007. The project was implemented by the Community Development Foundation (FDC) in close collaboration with CIVICUS (World Alliance for citizen participation) and with financial support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Aga Kahn Foundation and the European Union. The CSI project is an integrated research effort involving...

Indonesia was deeply affected by the 1997–1998 crisis, more so than its East Asian neighbors. Its economic contraction was deeper and more prolonged. It was the only one to experience a (temporary) loss of macroeconomic control. It also suffered “twin crises,” in the sense that its serious economic and financial problems were accompanied by regime collapse. Consequently, recovery was a slow and complex process, as new institutions had to be created, and old ones reformed under successive...

Two types of models are dominant in the current resource curse literature. One type of model studies the selection of entrepreneurs into rent-seeking versus productive activities. The other type analyses the use of patronage by politicians seeking re-election. The policy implications of the two models are quite different. The first model suggests that institutions governing the private sector ought to be improved. The second model suggests that institutions governing the public sector should...

O presente Regulamento estabelece as formas de organização e funcionamento dos Conselhos Consultivos Locais, com vista a cumprir eficazmente com a sua função de articipação das comunidades locais na concepção e implementação e programas e planos económicos, sociais e culturais, em prol do desenvolvimento local.

SDC has been implementing projects in support to decentralisation and local governance for about 15 years. Today, arounf 2/3 of SDC's country programmes include a support to local governance and/or decentralisation. For this reason, an independent evaluation of  SDC’s achievements on “Decentralisation  and local governance” took place in 2006‐2007. One of the recommendations of this evaluation  was to  carry out  a capitalisation of SDC’s experiences in this field. SDC’s  Governance ...

This report presents findings from the Social Sector Performance Qualitative Study (SSPQS). The SSPQS was designed as a follow-up to the Social Sector Performance Surveys (SSPS), which were public expenditure tracking surveys undertaken in the primary and secondary education and government health and family planning systems between 2004 and 2006. In many respects, the SSPS findings were positive, documenting that systems of health and education service provision were functioning. While there...

This is the second in a series of six participatory and qualitative studies of poverty in Mozambique, done with the objective of supporting the government in monitoring and evaluating the ongoing Action Plan for the Reduction of Absolute Poverty, PARPA II (GdM 2005). The first report looked into social relations of rural poverty in northern Mozambique, with special reference to the District of Murrupula in the Nampula province (Tvedten, Paulo and Rosário 2006). This report will analyse...

In 2001, Indonesia embarked on a decentralization process that has had a dramatic impact on the local political landscape, especially in relation to taxation and administrative processes. Rules and procedures that govern licensing, registration, some taxes and user charges have largely been devolved to local governments. A significant number of new licenses and charges have been created at the local level, and most licenses are issued through a complicated system of procedures and agencies....

O trabalho anunciado no título desta monografia analisa a economia informal e a protecção social, bem como os seus impactos, directos e indirectos, no desenvolvimento económico e humano, na pobreza e na exclusão social em Moçambique. A resposta e os resultados que a monografia encontrou para as questões principais de pesquisa revelaram-se, de algum modo, surpreendentes, tanto para os promotores do estudo como para os organizadores e os próprios autores. A surpresa não é por causa da...

O Plano de Acçãoo para a Redução da Pobreza Absoluta para 2006-2009 (PARPA II) do Governo de MoÁambique tem em vista alcanÁar o objectivo de diminuir a incidÍncia da pobreza de 54% em 2003 para 45% em 2009. Este documento sucede ao PARPA I de 2001-2005 (Governo de MoÁambique, 2001), mantendo em comum as prioridades em ·reas do desenvolvimento do capital humano na educaÁ„o e sa˙de, da melhoria na governaÁ„o, do desenvolvimento das infra-estruturas b·sicas e da agricultura, do desenvolvimento...

The article discusses some of the economic effects of war in northern Mozambique. It indicates how the historical and structural features of the economy of northern Mozambique restricted post-war reconstruction and post-war poverty alleviation. These features include the dominance of only a few cash crops for export, the absence of much rural trading, poor communication infrastructure, and weak political and state institutions. The specific nature of the internal war further weakened the...

Power analysis can help donors understand underlying structural factors impeding poverty reduction as well as incentives and disincentives for pro-poor development. Such analysis may point to i.a. why resources and authority are not transferred to lower levels of government in spite of decentralisation reforms, why women are not allowed to inherit land, and why poor people’s human rights, in particular, tend to be neglected – and what could be done about such expressions of politics of...

The present report integrates the main conclusions of the three PPFD projects evaluation: PPFDNorth, PPFD-Centre and PRODER, establishing the articulation with the evolution of the political and administrative evolution and relevant for the decentralization process. Based on this analysis the report proposes the architecture of a single National PPFD Program and its main components. This report is based on the main conclusions of an extensive field work covering various provinces and...

Research-based information is recognised as crucial for Mozambique's endeavours to reduce its poverty. This first report in a series of three qualitative studies on poverty in Mozambique focuses on the district of Murrupula in Nampula province. In Chapter 1 we argue that qualitative studies are important for the monitoring and evaluation of poverty reduction policies. They inform quantitative data and correlations by testing causal hypotheses on the ground. They discover processes and...

Durante muitos anos, a ideia de que a guerra civil que assolou Moçambique era conduzida por um exército mercenário ao serviço de interesses externos foi considerada inquestionável, desconhecendo-se que a Renamo possuía uma base social de apoio rural e que a produção agrícola constituía uma das fontes de financiamento da guerra. Após a independência, o partido-Estado Frelimo provocou uma desestruturação social, económica, política e cultural das sociedades rurais, conduzindo um projecto de...

O Inquérito Demográfico e de Saúde (IDS) em Moçambique faze parte dum programa internacional de inquéritos (MEASURE DHS) desenvolvido pelo ICF International através de um contrato com a USAID, com o propósito de apoiar aos governos e instituições privadas dos países em desenvolvimento na realização de inquéritos nacionais por amostragem, nas áreas de população e saúde. O Programa MEASURE DHS tem por objectivo: • Subsidiar a formulação de políticas e implementação de programas nas áreas de...

Os estudos sobre as relações sociais entre homens e mulheres - das relações de Género - começaram a ganhar corpo a partir de finais da década de 60 os países de língua inglesa - onde foi onstruída a categoria de Género (Gender) - mas depressa se expandiram pelo mundo. Género como categoria análitica, foi e continua a ser o resultado duma interrogação feminista no sentido de esclarecer a subalternidade e subordinação das mulheres no mundo. Trata-se de uma procura que caminhou que continua a...

Market-oriented policy agendas have enjoyed a remarkable influence in Indonesia for almost four decades. Yet, attempts to impose these agendas in any systematic fashion have proven uncertain and inconclusive. This is not simply a case of successful resistance to reform by entrenched interests. Rather, the deepening of market capitalism and global integration has, in many instances, appeared to consolidate authoritarian politics and predatory economic relationships. Even in the wake of...