What do we know about how – and how well – the international community supports parliaments? This study finds that a clear and consistent set of principles and recommendations has emerged in the literature. Perhaps the most important of these is the need to understand the political economy of parliaments in incipient democracies. However, there appears to be resistance to ...» more
Library
This e-library contains more than 4500 external publications on governance, social development, conflict and humanitarian issues. It includes academic and grey literature selected for its basis in good quality research and coverage of a range of perspectives. Policy-oriented summaries of each document are provided, plus links to the full text.
Social Protection and Social Exclusion: An Analytical Framework to Assess the Links
There is increasing interest in social protection as a ‘developmental’ and ‘transformative’ tool. Existing evaluations of social protection programmes discuss effects on people’s well-being, but rarely allow inferences about people’s ability to alter what drives their deprivation and vulnerability. This paper presents a way of using the concept of social exclusion to enhance ...» more
New Technologies in Cash Transfer Programming and Humanitarian Assistance
Advances in new technology in low-income countries mean there is growing interest in how technology can best serve humanitarian responses. Technology is felt to have potential to detect needs earlier, enable greater scale and speed of responses, enhance specificity of resource transfers to match needs and increase accountability while reducing opportunities for corruption and ...» more
Civil Service Reform: A Review
Understanding of how best to promote civil service reform has been hindered by the complexity of the subject, disagreement on objectives, and lack of reflection on experiences and of dissemination of results. Based on a literature review, this paper suggests principles for the design of more effective CSR programmes. These principles include: adaptation to the local context, ...» more
Public Financial Management Reforms in Post-conflict Countries: Synthesis Report
This synthesis report considers the feasibility of and constraints to public financial management reforms in post-conflict contexts. It discusses findings from a cross-country analysis of the design, implementation, and impact of PFM reforms in eight post-conflict environments over ten years. It finds that, while significant progress in improving public financial management is ...» more