Improving local governance and service delivery : Shouting at the system won’t make it work!

This event explores the latest debates, evidence and practice on social accountability, civil society advocacy and local government service delivery.  It considers how current policy and assumptions could be revised to more effectively address critical blockages in public service delivery.

Photo PANITA/ Save the Children Tanzania

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Event: Eradicating poverty: using poverty dynamics to enhance development efforts

The Chronic Poverty Advisory Network is pleased to announce the event ‘Eradicating poverty: using poverty dynamics to enhance development efforts’ that will take place in Nairobi, Kenya, on the 3 and 4 May 2017.  In the last years CPAN has produced an extensive set of publications on anti-discrimination and disability, social protection, growth and poverty dynamics. The event aims to present this comprehensive set of publications to policy makers in this dissemination workshop that will also be a preparatory exercise for the 4th Chronic Poverty Report.

Photo Credit:  Pablo Tosco/Oxfam - At the Mentao Nord camp in Burkina Faso. Photo available here

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