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While so much of emphasis is given for Managing for Development Results at the Partner Country level, it is essential that the same level of importance should be given at the Project Level as well. The accountability and ownership of all the…Continue
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The most widely accepted normative model of "good" public management is called results-based management. It encourages planning and target setting to make the organization more proactive; an emphasis on outcomes to make the organizations better…Continue
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This paper is a contribution to the ongoing discourse and search for strategic options to transform Sierra Leone’s economy from the perspective of successes recorded by the East Asian (EA) countries since the 1960s. The development models pursued by the EA region have been exemplary and highly recommended for replication in other parts of the developing world. As diverse as Sub-Saharan Africa in culture, ethnicity and other socio-political variables, many of the economies in East Asia have…
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The global development industry’s realization at the turn of the twenty-first century was well received over the underperformance of aid in the last half of the previous century. New development paradigms emerged including poverty reduction strategies and the MDGs. New partnership frameworks between donors and recipient countries were formulated to increase aid effectiveness. These frameworks ranged from the Monterrey Consensus, to the Paris Declaration, Accra Agenda for Action, and the…
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Below are the presentations used during the series on Frontier Issues in Results & Public Sector Performance Series held at the World Bank, in Washington, DC, from May 2 to May 10. More information on the series is available…
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The vision of the Centre for Learning on Evaluation and Results (CLEAR) located in the Graduate School of Public & Development Management (P&DM) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Wits) is is to support development anchored in…
Posted by African CoP on April 27, 2012 at 1:30pm
The Africa Community of Practice (AfCoP) has developed these guidelines on Results Based Monitoring and Evaluation (RBM&E) so that it lives up to its mandate and mission of promoting experience sharing and learning among its members. Through the guidelines AfCoP also intends to complement the efforts of development practitioners among AfCoP member countries, who have the task of monitoring and evaluating development activities within their various portfolios. The guidelines also target…
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BOOK REVIEW
Fixing Failed States: A Framework for Rebuilding A Fractured World
By Ashraf Ghani & Clare Lockhart. Oxford University Press. 2008.
What Lessons There Are for Sierra Leone?
Review by Sheka BANGURA
JICA Scholar (PhD)…
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Rethinking and enforcing PSR strategies that tackle issues of values, ethics, integrity and attitude in the public/civil service can turn around the African continent. Strong public institutions, complaint handling systems and streamlined service time processes are in many ways embedded in value-based and ethical public services; and enhances competitiveness;
Public sector reforms should be designed and implemented within the socio-political and…
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Managing for Development Results:
A Focus on Africa
AfCoP Casebook – June 2010 – AfCoP-MfDR
The casebook is now available for download here!
The African Community of Practice (AfCoP) has just released its first Casebook on Managing for Development Results (MfDR). This publication innovates by its participatory process: almost half of the cases are the product of online discussions or South-South exchanges among AfCoP members. This Casebook aims at being useful to the many results practitioners in Africa.
To know more, read this article.
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