| Date | Title | Summary | Recipient |
| 2006 | Institutional and Financial Arrangements for the Proposed Municipal Development Fund, Angola |
IDD advised on the institutional and financial arrangements for the proposed Municipal Development Fund, intended to channel both donor and state funds to municipalities for development and service delivery.
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UNDP |
| 2006 | Review of the Political Empowerment Programme, Kenya | IDD was commissioned to evaluate the Political Empowerment Programme (PEP) in Kenya. We reviewed all programmes against the PEP framework for programme cohesiveness and overall performance. We also proposed options for making changes at both programme and implementation level, for greater impact. | DFID |
| 2006 | Support for Implementation of the Public Administration Reform (PAR) Master Programme 2001-10, Vietnam | IDD provided technical assistance and recommendations to the programme formulation process, as well as to the Like Minded Donor Group (LMDG), to enhance its participation in the programme design process. This involved analysing the strategic priorities of Vietnam in PAR for the next five years and also helping to align the priorities of the support programme with government priorities in an effective and efficient way. | SDC |
| 2006 | Review of Directions in Developing Countries’ Government Resource Mobilisation to Shape DfID Future Work on Taxation | IDD provided an overview of the literature on the key developments, issues and trends in taxation. This included the means by which governments raise revenue to finance spending on public goods and services for delivering the MDGs and DFID’s PSA, and the importance of domestic revenue mobilisation for supporting state building and political stability. | DFID |
| 2006 | Literature Review of Political Institutions and Elites in Africa | Review of the literature on political institutions in developing countries, focusing on Africa, and summary of current understanding of how elites work with and through political institutions. Key topics of interest included elites, political leadership, and neopatrimonialism. | DFID |
| 2006 | Leadership for Social Justice International Fellows Programme, Ford Foundation, UK | The International Fellows Programme (IFP) sponsors exceptional students to study for Masters degrees at international universities. Each year the IFP organises a Leadership for Social Justice (LSJ) programme which bridges the gap between studying abroad and returning home, preparing the Fellows for re-entry and giving them help and encouragement so they use their education for social justice in their own countries. IDD organised the thirteenth LSJ which involved delivering workshops and seminars and organising study trips for 60 fellows. | Ford Foundation |
| 2006 | International Executive Water Programme: Water Sector Policy, Reform Strategy and PSP Evaluation |
IDD delivered training on performance indicators, strategy, management and bidding in the reform process of water sector policy.
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CDA Consulting |
| 2006 | Evaluation of Commonwealth Local Government Forum (CLGF) | A review of the CLGF Good Practice Scheme, which aims to promote the effective, responsive and accountable delivery of local authority services, particularly to poor and disadvantaged communities. The objective of this evaluation was to identify ways of improving and strengthening the Scheme and to identify areas of CLGF work that complement DFID’s programmes in support of country led poverty reduction strategies. Case studies in South Africa and India. | DFID |
| 2006 | Support for Development and Review of PEMFA Programme, Zambia |
A review of various aspects of the PEMFA programme.
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DFID |
| 2006 | Support for Research on Multiple Taxation in Nigeria | This project reviewed the work of local consultants on one part of the overall project: Security, Justice and Growth - A study of the impact of multiple taxation on businesses. | British Council |
| 2005 | Municipal Financial Management Technical Assistance Project in South Africa | IDD helped in drafting a paper on achieving fiscal balance across a range of South African municipalities, and gave advice on issues related to the recently passed Municipal Property Rights Act and South Africa's Local Government Fiscal Framework. | World Bank |
| 2005 | Social Welfare Reform Design Mission in Serbia | IDD provided advice on the project design of this project which attempts to bring about reforms to social welfare services through the Social Innovations Fund. This finances projects at the local level to restructure local welfare policy and services. | DFID |
| 2005 | Madhya Pradesh Urban Poverty Reduction Programme, India | IDD conducted a desk study of the five year Programme which promotes sustainable poverty reduction and economic growth in Madhya Pradesh. | DFID |
| 2005 | Implementation Manual for the Public Sector Reform Secretariat of the Government of Ghana | IDD helped develop project documents spelling out activities and actions that would assist the government in its public sector reform agenda. This reform agenda included the Civil Service and sub-vented agencies, public financial management, decentralisation and governance. | Government of Ghana |
| 2005 | Basrah Provincial Council Educational Study Trip | The education of Council Members in the running of Basrah Council needed to be given a high priority in order to enable the Members of Council to lead Basrah in its efforts to work efficiently and effectively. In order to go some way to addressing this need, DFID and the Danish Government sponsored an Educational Study Trip. The main aim was to enable Members of BPC, academics and senior staff to witness democratic processes functioning in different political environments. | DFID and the Danish Government |
| 2005 | Technical Assistance for the China Europe Public Administration Programme - Training Management Course | The objective of this project was to assist the process of social and economic reform in China and to increase understanding and knowledge of public administration between China, the European Union and its member states. This work targeted the fourth component of seven, which aimed to enhance the skills of trainers and training managers in CNSA and to strengthen CNSA institutional capacity to train the staff of other training institutions. | British Council |
| 2005 | Grenada Reconstruction Plan: Consultancy to Analyse Minimum Donor Monitoring and Reporting Requirements and the Production of a Draft Framework for Harmonised Reporting |
The objective of this work was to analyse the minimum procurement, financial reporting and auditing, and progress reporting requirements of the lead donors contributing funds and non-monetary assistance to Grenada’s reconstruction.
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DFID |
| 2005 | Support to Local Government Service Commission, Sierra Leone |
This project provided support to the establishment of the Local Government Service Commission (LGSC) in Sierra Leone.
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DFID |
| 2005 | Policy Development for Islamic Relief | A series of workshops supporting the NGO Islamic Relief in their work to develop organisational policies on HIV / AIDS and poverty. | Islamic Relief |
| 2004-05 | Kolkata Urban Services for the Poor (KUSP) - Change Management Unit | The Kolkata Urban Services for the Poor programme aims at improving urban planning and governance, access to basic services for the poor and promoting economic growth in the Kolkata Metropolitan Area. The programme supports provision of infrastructure and community initiatives in slums, fills critical infrastructure gaps at the town level and in some cases also supports infrastructure that serve two or more municipalities. | DFID |
| 2002-05 | Bangladesh: Financial Management Reform Programme | This work assisted the Government of Bangladesh in improving its public expenditure management performance through knowledge transfer, capacity building and improvements of related information systems. | Government of Bangladesh |
| 2004 | Making Choices about Sub-National Engagement in Large Countries for Poverty Reduction and Growth |
A report examining the choices donors face when establishing sub-national partnerships for poverty reduction.
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DFID's Regional Policy Departments in collaboration with DFID's Policy Division |
| 2004 | Assisting with the work of the Urban - Rural Change Team | The aim of this project was to provide technical support to the Urban - Rural change team's activities and outputs. The team's objectives were to increase awareness and improve understanding about urban - rural change and its impact on poor people, to develop policy guidance, and to share good practice on managing urban - rural change. | DFID's Urban - Rural Change Team |
| 2004 | Social Reconstruction in Nepal | Through the GTZ sponsored NGO Fund Project, poor people in rural areas of Nepal are helped to stand on their own feet, organise themselves, earn something and increase their social standing in society. | GTZ |
| 2003 -04 | Review of DFID’s Development Partnership with UN-HABITAT: Assessing Progress, Defining Challenges and Establishing Future Priorities | This evaluative study was carried out to determine the direction of DFID’s future support to UN-HABITAT, and involved intensive discussions with staff at UH-HABITAT headquarters in Nairobi and fieldwork studying UN-HABITAT projects in Tanzania (Safer Cities) and Serbia and Kosovo (Housing and Property Directorate). | DFID |
| 2002-04 | Water and Forestry Support Programme, South Africa |
Working to transform DWAF's structure and HR systems, procedures, and financial management and capacity.
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Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (DWAF), South Africa |
| 1991-2004 | Tunisian Public Administration Programme | Annual ten week training programme for Tunisian public service officials structured around themes of public administration and management systems. | Tunisian Government |
| 2003 | Study Tour for Senior Officials from Russia on UK Local Government Financial Management | School of Public Policy developed a study programme to introduce senior representatives from five regions in Russia to UK local government practice. | Russian Government |
| 2003 | The Use of Different Aid Instruments in Asia | IDD reviewed the impact on poverty achieved through different aid instruments and the degree of influence that each instrument affords to donors. | DFID's Asia Directorate |
| 2003 | Performance Management and Performance Indicators Mechanisms Training for the Mexican Institute of Social Security |
IDD's contribution represented an opportunity for IMSS Oportunidades to train their members in the areas of performance management and performance indicators mechanisms in relation to the Institution’s objectives.
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British Council |
| 2003 | Institutional Development Training | Provision of training for non Institutional Development specialist advisers and administrative staff in DFID, giving them an improved understanding of institutional development tools and techniques to enable them to effectively take forward DFID's objectives. | DFID |
| 2002-03 | Decentralisation and Local Government Reform in Sierra Leone | IDD assisted the Government of Sierra Leone by providing advice on legislation, decentralisation of functions, financial resources and inter-governmental transfers, staffing and internal organisations, and the role of central government. | Government of Sierra Leone |
| 2002-03 | Training of Shenzhen Senior Managers | A programme of training for Shenzhen senior managers. Topics included: the organisation and financing of Universities in the UK compared to China, the management of venture capital funds in the UK, the development of the culture and tourism industry in the UK compared to China, modernisation of public administration, comparison between Shenzhen and UK, and product quality management. | Shenzhen Municipal Government, China |
| 2002-03 | Property Tax Proposal | St Vincent Government | |
| 2002-03 | Literature Review on HIV / AIDS and Governance | Desk study to review current literature on HIV / AIDS and Governance. This was to provide DFID with information on work already done in this area in order to identify where further research needs to be commissioned, and decide how to respond, based on the predictions made for the governance implications of HIV / AIDS. | DFID |
| 2000-03 | Russia: Advice to the City of Ekaterinburg (RACE) | IDD drew up and implemented a city development strategy for sustainable growth, poverty reduction and environmental impact. | City of Ekaterinburg |
| 2000-03 | Equalisation of Local Budgets in Romania | IDD provided recommendations to assist the reform of the local budgeting process and decentralisation of public services in Romania. | Romanian Government |
| 2000-03 | Georgia Governance and Civil Society Project - Phase 2 |
IDD focused on strengthening local government as part of the GOCISP Project.
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Georgian Government |
| 2000-03 | Andhra Pradesh Urban Services for the Poor (APUSP) | Provision of an integrated package of technical assistance to ensure that the poor in towns of Andhra Pradesh benefited from improved access to more appropriate and sustainable services. The project consisted of three components: municipal reform, environmental infrastructure and working with civil society. | DFID |
| 1991-2003 | Assistance to Local Government Reform Phase III | Management and provision of short term assistance to the local government reform programme in Slovakia aimed at securing good governance and domestic accountability. Themes covered included central - local financial relations, budgeting, user-friendliness of public services and control of service delivery organisations. | Slovakian Government |
| 2002 | Assisting Closed Administrative Territorial Formations (CATFs) to Make the Transition to Elected Municipal Councils | To empower the people of Zvesdnyi and four other CATFs to enhance their civil, political, social and economic rights through increasing democratic control over their own affairs at town level. This was achieved through focused education and training for elected officials and military officers that inculcates a philosophy of accountability and transparency through public participation and mobilisation. The building of popular self-confidence through increased accountability and scrutiny of public officials will provide the impetus for pursuing economic regeneration policies in the CATFs. | Association of Closed Administrative Territorial Formations (ACATF), Russia |
| 2002 | IFE Performance Evaluation, Mexico | Exchange of performance evaluation ideas between Federal Electorate Institute (IFE) and UK experience. | British Council |
| 2002 | Governance Retreat | Aimed at individuals working on service delivery issues from a variety of perspectives. Improving public services is critical for poverty elimination but the record of institutional reform in the public sector is mixed. DFID needs to understand the constraints and develop strategies for overcoming them. The retreat was an opportunity to share operational experience and discuss how this can best be disseminated in DFID. | DFID |
| 2000-02 | Review of DfID's Central and South Eastern Europe Department's (CSEED) Portfolio of Local and Regional Development Projects |
Review of CSEED's portfolio in order to advise DFID how to strengthen its policy advocacy and dialogue with the European Union.
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DFID |
| 1999-2002 | Managing at the Top (MATT), Bangladesh | A programme of training and in-service development for approximately 100 senior civil servants in Bangladesh. | Government of Bangladesh |
| 1999-2002 | Local and Regional Government Institutional Strengthening Project (LARGIS) |
IDD addressed issues of regional policy, administrative reform, and local service delivery and strategy in the Lviv and Kharkiv Oblasts.
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Government of the Ukraine |
| 1991-2002 | Local Government Reform - Phase IV | The major focus of Phase IV was on the disparities in service provision which have stemmed from scale inefficiencies in small towns and villages, and the inadequate accountability of service delivery organisations. | Hungarian Government |
| 2001 | United Nations Staff College (UNSC) Project | The UNSC and IDD jointly developed learning materials aimed at enhancing resource management activities as they related to several UNSC proposed projects. | United Nations |
| 2001 | Support for Ho Chi Minh City Public Administration Reform, Vietnam | The purpose of the Study Mission was to study the organisation, management and delivery of urban services and economic regeneration. | British Council |
| 2001 | Management Development Programme, Jordan | The project provided support to the Education Department of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). One of the key objectives of the project was to enhance and improve the leadership and management skills of senior education managers and also enable middle managers to develop a range of management skills as part of the strategy to improve succession planning. | British Council |
| 2001 | Support to the Training Process for the Uganda Participatory Poverty Assessment Project (UPPAP) |
Participate in the design, discussion, analysis and documentation of the UPPAP Phase II Training as part of the DRT team.
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DRT |
| 2000-01 | Evaluation of DANIDA's Rakai District Development Programme |
Evaluation of Danish Aid's programme of support for infrastructure reconstruction and institutional development in Rakai, Uganda.
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Danish Aid |
| 1997-2001 | Study on Inter-Governmental Fiscal Relations in Kenya |
The objectives of the study included to:
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World Bank |
| 2000 | Review of Government Plans for Local Government in Pakistan | One of the items on the seven point agenda for national reconstruction of the new military Government of Pakistan is the devolution of power to the grassroots level. Plans were outlined and a Local Government Development Plan was produced. IDD provided DFID with their views on the Local Government Proposed Plan, which were then incorporated into DFID's comments on the plan. | DFID |
| 1999-2000 | Establishment of a Code of Ethics - Civil Service Reform Programme, Government of Ethiopia |
The provision of advice, assistance and training in the establishment of an ethics central body within the federal government.
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United Nations Development Programme |
| 1999-2000 | Romania Local Public Administration Development | The objective of the broader programme is to enhance local autonomy and democracy by increasing institutional capacity of local governments to plan for the medium and long term. IDD provided short term assistance and study tours to contribute to this goal. | European Commission |
| 1999-2000 | Local Authorities Finance and Decentralisation, Zimbabwe | The study was designed to determine the future financial requirements of Local Authorities, based on an assessment of existing financial positions and the costs of performing proposed future functions. | DFID |
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