Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge and Katera, Lucas and Ngalewa, Erasto | 2008
- Author(s): Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge and Katera, Lucas and Ngalewa, Erasto
- Publisher: Research on poverty alleviation (REPOA)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: privatization, local taxation, local finance, local government, tanzania
This brief examines recent experiences with privatized revenue collection in seven urban and rural councils in Tanzania, with particular focus on the outsourcing of revenue collection to private agents.
Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge and Katera, Lucas and Ngalewa, Erasto | 2008
- Author(s): Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge and Katera, Lucas and Ngalewa, Erasto
- Publisher: Research on poverty alleviation (REPOA)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: public services, local government, tanzania
This brief compares Tanzanian citizens' perceptions of service delivery by local government authorities between 2003 and 2006; summarising their perceptions of the overall quality of local services, as well as their satisfaction with services in the three key sectors of education, health and water.
Flessa, Steffen | 2011
- Author(s): Flessa, Steffen
- Publisher: BioMed central
- Pages: --
- Keywords: health economics, health services, kenya
The Ministry of Health of Kenya in cooperation with its development partners conducted a comprehensive costing exercise and subsequently developed the Kenya Health Sector Costing Model in order to fill this data gap. This article discusses this study.
Foresti, Marta and Wild, Leni | 2009
- Author(s): Foresti, Marta and Wild, Leni
- Publisher: Overseas development institute (ODI)]
- Pages: --
- Keywords: governance, public sector, public services, political economy
Sector reform and effective service delivery are among the key critical factors for making progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and for achieving sustainable and equitable growth. This report summarizes donors' experiences in sector-level governance and political economy analysis.
Forster, Reiner | [2011- ]
- Author(s): Forster, Reiner
- Publisher: World bank]. Social development department
- Pages: --
- Keywords: accountability, popular participation, decentralization in government, budgeting, guidelines, africa south of sahara, asia and the pacific, latin america, caribbean region
This sourcebook provides an analytical framework, an overview of the main concepts and definitions, tools and methods, case studies from different regions (including Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean), sectoral and thematic applications, and knowledge and learning resources.