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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796909603321

Titolo

Improving delivery in development : the role of voice, social contract, and accountability / / Jan Wouters, Alberto Ninio, Teresa Doherty, Hassane Cisse, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC : , : World Bank Group, , [2015]

ISBN

1-4648-0379-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxx, 561 pages) ; 23 cm

Collana

World Bank Legal Review ; ; Volume 6

Disciplina

341.10923479

Soggetti

Law and economic development

International economic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Editors and Contributors; Introduction: Improving Delivery in Development: The Role of Voice, Social Contract, and Accountability; PART I: Human Rights and Development; 1. Human Rights and Service Delivery: A Review of Current Policies, Practices, and Challenges; 2. Delivering Development and Good Governance: Making Human Rights Count; 3. The Right to Development: Translating Indigenous Voice(s) into Development Theory and Practice; 4. The Curse of Riches: Sharing Nature's Wealth Equitably?; PART II: Sustainable Development

5. Fostering Accountability in Large-Scale Environmental Projects: Lessons from CDM and REDD+ Projects6. The Constitutional Regime for Resource Governance in Africa: The Difficult March toward Accountability; 7. Conceptualizing Regulatory Frameworks to Forge Citizen Roles to Deliver Sustainable Natural Resource Management in Kenya; 8. The Impact of the Legal Framework of Community Forestry on the Development of Rural Areas in Cameroon; PART III: Urban Law and Policy; 9. Urban Law: A Key to Accountable Urban Government and Effective Urban Service Delivery

10. Confronting Complexity: Using Action-Research to Build Voice, Accountability, and Justice in Nairobi's Mukuru Informal Settlements11. "Good" Legislation as a Means of Ensuring Voice, Accountability, and the Delivery of Results in Urban Development; PART IV: Sexual and



Gender-Based Violence; 12. Justice Sector Delivery of Services in the Context of Fragility and Conflict: What Is Being Done to Address Sexual and Gender-Based Violence?; 13. Sexual Violence in Conflict: Can There Be Justice?; PART V: Improving Access to Justice

14. The Ministério Público of the State of Minas Gerais and the ADR Experience15. ICT-Driven Strategies for Reforming Access to Justice Mechanisms in Developing Countries; 16. Courts and Regulatory Governance in Latin America: Improving Delivery in Development by Managing Institutional Interplay; PART VI: Anticorruption and Stolen Assets Recovery; 17. The New Brazilian Anticorruption Law: Federation Challenges and Institutional Roles; 18. Voice and Accountability: Improving the Delivery of Anticorruption and Anti-Money Laundering Strategies in Brazil

19. Development-Oriented Alternatives to Debarment as an Anticorruption Accountability Tool20. Making Delivery a Priority: A Philosophical Perspective on Corruption and a Strategy for Remedy; 21. Measures for Asset Recovery: A Multiactor Global Fund for Recovered Stolen Assets; PART VII: Perspectives on the World Bank Inspection Panel; 22. Improving Service Delivery through Voice and Accountability: The Experience of the World Bank Inspection Panel; 23. The World Bank's Inspection Panel: A Tool for Accountability?

24. The Inspection Panel of the World Bank: An Effective Extrajudicial Complaint Mechanism?

Sommario/riassunto

Many developing countries have the capacity to develop broad development policy directions and formulate development programs that are logical and consistent, but these do not obtain the desired or targeted results because of challenges in the delivery system. It is increasingly apparent that development efforts must be carefully crafted and targeted in the right way to achieve the most effective results in an efficient manner. Recent literature in development studies evidence the important role of 'delivery' in actualizing positive and efficient development impact. Improving delivery and deve