written by Tim McNaught For the past 30 years, governments across Africa have been implementing public financial management (PFM) reforms with mixed results. While budgets, laws and processes have improved, they are often not effectively implemented
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The importance of thinking and working politically in programs concerned with governance and institutional reform is widely recognized – but shifting from
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written by Salimah Samji International development experts often tell us that they cannot do PDIA because the project processes within their organizations
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written by Matt Andrews What do you do if your government has been pursuing reforms for years, with apparent success, but your
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Solving problems that matter ensure that you are doing something contextually relevant. In this video, Matt Andrews, uses an example of civil
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The systems and structures in development are focused heavily on form and not function. In this video, Michael Woolcock uses examples in
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written by Salimah Samji The knee jerk reaction to building capacity is to organize more training workshops. These are taught by experts
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written by Salimah Samji In a recent paper entitled, Behavioral Economics and Public Sector Reform: An Accidental Experiment and Lessons from Cameroon,
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