This rapid literature review collates lessons from major evaluations and learning reviews from development, state-building and stabilisation programming in South Sudan since independence in 2011....
Research is critical to understanding and addressing the problems seen in fragile and conflict affected states (FCAS). The scale and impact of these problems is staggering: in 2016 about 1.8 bill...
https://gsdrc.org/publications/doing-research-in-fragile-contexts/
This helpdesk report aims to outline the scope, impact and challenges associated with public works programmes (PWPs) in development and humanitarian contexts. PWPs have been implemented in a broa...
https://gsdrc.org/publications/designing-implementing-and-evaluating-public-works-programmes/
Entrepreneurship training programmes are an important component of demand-side job creation strategies in developing countries (Fox and Kaul, 2017). Assessments of such programmes are constrained...
A range of methods can be used to monitor and evaluate whether a programme/workstream has contributed to change in local governance, service delivery and economic development, and to generate und...
https://gsdrc.org/publications/me-methods-for-local-government-performance/
Absorptive capacity refers to ‘the ability to use additional aid without pronounced inefficiency of public spending and without induced adverse effects’ (Bourguignon and Sundberg, 2007, 640)....
https://gsdrc.org/publications/aid-absorption-factors-and-measurements/
Donor agencies use a number of indicators for humanitarian action. In June 2016, ECHO reduced the number of KRIs (Key Results Indicators) it uses from 113 to 35 (ECHO also permits partners to ...
https://gsdrc.org/publications/humanitarian-results-indicators-and-how-they-relate-to-the-sdgs/
This literature review examines evidence about the impact of public financial management (PFM) interventions in the field of decentralisation of budgeting. It asks: What is the effectiveness of d...
https://gsdrc.org/publications/decentralisation-of-budgeting-process/
Please identify literature outlining the details of specific participatory methods and tools for community consultation that may be suitable for use by a bilateral aid agency in country strategy-...
https://gsdrc.org/publications/participatory-methods-for-community-consultation/
Please provide examples of community (participatory) monitoring and evaluation projects for holding government accountable for service delivery and expenditure management. The post Community Mo...
https://gsdrc.org/publications/community-monitoring-of-service-delivery/