This paper examines the issues inherent in evaluating impacts of peacebuilding interventions and aims to ensure evaluation designs are appropriate, robust and conflict-sensitive. It offers a perspective on what impact evaluation means in a peacebuilding context, and highlights the importance of conflict analysis to understand and test the relevance of any intervention to the ...» more
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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.
The Price of Empowerment: Experimental Evidence on Land Titling in Tanzania
This paper presents preliminary results from a land titling experiment in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The experiment used targeted subsides to induce random variation in the price that land-owning households faced when purchasing a land title. In addition to these general price discounts, the paper reports impacts on overall demand for titling and female co-titling from ...» more
Delivering social protection in the aftermath of a shock: lessons from Bangladesh, Kenya, Pakistan and Viet Nam
Helping households cope with covariate shocks is one of the primary objectives of social protection policy. In contrast with idiosyncratic shocks that affect individuals over the course of their lifetime, such as loss of employment and ill-health, covariate shocks commonly affect entire communities or large parts of a country’s population at the same time. Examples include ...» more
Public Service Delivery: Role of Information and Communication Technology in Improving Governance and Development Impact
The focus of this paper is on improving governance through the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in delivering services to the poor, i.e., improving efficiency, accountability, and transparency, and reducing bribes in delivery of services.India and a few other developing nations are home to a very large number of experiments in the use of ICT for sustainable ...» more
Evidence of development impact from institutional change: a review of the evidence on open budgeting
Despite the growing body of literature examining the effectiveness of transparency and accountability initiatives, there remains limited substantiation for whether and how open budgeting contributes to reductions in poverty and improvements in the lives of the poor. This paper reviews available evidence and concludes that institutional changes can contribute to higher-level ...» more