This report on the decentralized service delivery for the poor is structured in two volumes. Volume one is a cross-sectoral report, the core report. The first part includes the program and performance overview which describes the programs (including their poverty goals) and their process of...

Limited state capacity to carry out core government and service delivery functions poses a major constraint in post conflict countries, especially those with low income levels. With regard to scope, the research carried out for this note primarily focuses on developing a detailed understanding...

The purpose of the baseline assessment is to provide baseline information on women access to public services, especially health, water, and population administration services. One of the objectives of decentralization is to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, quality, equity, accessibility,...

One objective of decentralization is to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, quality, equity, accessibility, and responsiveness of public service delivery. But up to now, various service pictures show how women have more limited access to good public services. Maternal, infant, and children...

"Aid to developing countries has largely neglected the population-wide health services that are core to communicable disease control in the developed world. These mostly non-clinical services generate "pure public goods" by reducing everyone's exposure to disease through measures such as...