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Mixed Migration, Forced Displacement and Job Outcomes in South Africa

World Bank Group - 2018

Southern Africa has a long history of human mobility centered around the migration of labor to farms and mines in the region. Patterns of migration and displacement have since been transformed by the end of Apartheid, changing economic systems, and conflict and political instability, both in the...

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Afghanistan's Forced Displacement Legal and Policy Framework Assessment

World Bank Group - 2017

This Assessment is conducted as part of a larger platform established in 2016 through a joint World Bank and UNHCR initiative to support Afghanistan's forcibly displaced population. The platform aims to inform and support the dialogue between stakeholders in Afghanistan in order to: (i) seek...

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Cities of Refuge in the Middle East : Bringing an Urban Lens to the Forced Displacement Challenge

World Bank Group - 2017

This policy note aims to advance our understanding of urban forced displacement, induced by conflict, by looking at the issue from the perspective of receiving towns and cities. It explores why we need a different approach to addressing urban forced displacement; how to "think differently" about...

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Water Services Devolution in Kenya

World Bank Group - 2015

The overview over the next pages summarizes key themes and findings from on-going technical assistance provided to the Kenyan water sector by the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) of the World Bank’s Water Global Practice. Kenya’s new Constitution (Constitution of Kenya 2010) came into...

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Pakistan Earthquake 2005 : The Case of Centralized Recovery Planning and Decentralized Implementation

World Bank Group - 2014

Located in South Asia, Pakistan is the sixth most populous country in the world. Pakistan is divided into four provinces, a state and federally and provincially administrated territories. The country is exposed to several types of natural disasters, prominent among which are earthquakes, floods,...

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Moldova Preschool and General Education : Transitioning to a Decentralized Service Delivery Model

World Bank Group (contributor) - World Bank Group - 2018

Moldova's public expenditures on education as a share of GDP and total public sector spending are higher than in most countries in the European Union (EU) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Moldova's challenges to improve the quality and efficiency of education...

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Cambodia's Cross-Cutting Reforms : Public Financial Management, Decentralization, and Public Administration Reforms - Achievements, Coordination, Challenges, and Next Steps

World Bank Group - 2018

Decentralization and Deconcentration) in Cambodia and describes how their design, implementation, and institutional arrangements can be …

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Togo Decentralized Service Delivery : Status and Way Forward for Strengthening Communes

World Bank Group - 2019

ongoing decentralization process. The note recognizes the potential of decentralization to enhance local service delivery, if … done well. Hence, the policy note assesses the current state of decentralization in Togo, with a specific focus on … decentralization from central government to communes, the lowest level of government, and front-line for local service delivery. The …

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Peru : Building a More Efficient and Equitable Fiscal Decentralization System

World Bank Group - 2017

. This report analyzes recent trends of the fiscal decentralization process in Peru and presents a set of reform options … designed to harvest the envisaged efficiency and equity gains in service delivery that the fiscal decentralization was expected …

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Subnational Public Expenditure Review 2019 : Fostering Decentralization in Myanmar

World Bank Group - 2019

Myanmar's decentralization of governance, financing and service delivery is taking place against aparticularly …

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