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Municipal Capacity Building in Public-Private Partnerships

This sourcebook provides a series of considerations and tools that will facilitate making both governance and government more effective. It allows municipalities to tailor their approach through more informed analysis of the problems that they face and the options that are possible. more

Namibia: Impact of the Global Financial and Economic Crisis

The study was commissioned to assess and quantify, on an ex ante basis, the likely/potential impact of the financial and economic crisis on the Namibian economy, in general, and the possible effect of the policy reforms that the government had introduced, in particular. more

Official Development Assistance as Direct Budget Support

This report highlights a number of key issues and concerns that need to be taken into account by UNDP in addressing a growing trend towards development that is increasingly intent on ensuring national ownership and the consolidation of policy-based partnerships. more

Output-Based Contracts in Small-Town Water Supply in Uganda: Challenges and Opportunities

This report presents findings from a review of the role of the domestic private sector in the delivery of urban water in Uganda. Since the introduction of the output-based aid (OBA) scheme in 2008, some towns have seen a relatively rapid increase in the number of connections, while using less more

PPP for Basic Services Delivery (Human Development Viewpoint)

Supporting formal and inclusive tripartite partnerships at the local level between government, business and communities is an effective way to unleash local development and alleviate poverty by increasing poor people's access to basic services. more

Paraguay: Impact of the Economic Crisis on the MDGs and Social Expenditure

Through a partial equilibrium model, this report estimates the necessary budget resources for the next 10 years to finance social expenditures central to poverty reduction. The study seeks quantify a public investment plan and determine its sustainability and feasibility of reaching goals in more

Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness

Statement from the High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness held in Paris on 28 February – 02 March, 2005. more

Plenty of Room? Fiscal Space in a Resource Abundant Economy

The typical problems faced by developing economies in financing the fight against poverty should, in the very least, be severely attenuated in mineral rich economies. The problem of these economies, a skeptic may dispute, is not finding more resources: it is using them more efficiently. more

Policy Brief: Employment Guarantee Policies

The recent financial and economic crisis has called into question many of the beliefs about market economics that held sway for more than two decades, with a new consensus emerging that markets alone cannot deliver economic stability. Governments and their partners, including international more

Policy Brief: Unpaid Care Work

This Policy Brief provides insight into to the importance of addressing issues of gender equality and unpaid carework in national development policies and strategies. It targets UNDP country offices and their national counterparts (e.g., national, regional and local governments and more

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