gender equality in human development by making rural service provision and local governance inclusive and responsive to the … service provision and local governance, the gender bias in human development is still pronounced. This casts doubt on the … effectiveness of reservation policies as an instrument for making rural service provision and local governance more gender equitable …

implement due to governance challenges related to elite capture, leakages, and corruption. The ability to identify how the … governance challenges of program implementation can be met requires detailed insights into the actual process of program … research method, referred to as Process-Influence Mapping, to shed light on these issues and related governance challenges …

"Even though both “good governance” and “pro-poor growth” have become important concepts in development thinking and … practice, studies that assess to which extent and how good governance contributes to pro-poor growth are still relatively … different aspects of governance and pro-poor growth. Using this framework, the paper reviews a range of quantitative cross …

be designed to be effective and efficient, while also fulfilling the principles of good governance, such as transparency …