The Budget Strengthening Initiative draws on expertise from across ODI and beyond to support fragile and conflict-affected states to build more effective, accountable and transparent budgets.
The new deal in Somalia: an independent review of the Somali Compact, 2014-2016
Organising a strategic phase in the budget process
Public investment management
Fiscal decentralisation
Cash management in cash-constrained environments
The ministry of finance ‘challenge function’
Change in challenging contexts - how does it happen?
Why Uganda is more transparent than Norway
Political science welcomes William Easterly
Randomized control trials (RCTs): interesting, but a marginal tool for governments
If you think conflict prevention is expensive, try conflict
Giving institutional reforms a chance to succeed
The service delivery agenda: beware, there be doughnuts!
What can help Central African Republic? Lessons from Sierra Leone
European launch: Public financial management and its emerging architecture
Budget transparency in Uganda
Unblocking results in Tanzanian rural water supply
Matt Andrews on the limits of institutional reform
Telling countries they're the worst in the world doesn't really help them
The flip side of the coin: accountability as a precondition for meaningful budget transparency
Does technical assistance need a makeover?
Unblocking results: can aid get public services flowing?
This event will explore the findings and policy implications of the latest ODI research on how aid can be best packaged to support governance and institutional development. The research draws on case studies in Sierra Leone, Tanzania...
What do discussions about aid modalities and institutional change have in common?
Unblocking results: using aid to address governance constraints in public service delivery
The limits of institutional reform in development
This event discusses Matt Andrews' new book ...
Special fiscal institutions for resource-rich developing economies
Linking public financial management dimensions to development priorities
Of institutions and butterflies: is isomorphism in developing countries necessarily a bad thing?
Managing natural resource revenues: the Timor-Leste Petroleum Fund
What does debt mean for governance?
Following the money: examining the evidence on pro-poor budgeting
Of institutions and butterflies
Measuring good pooled funds in fragile states
Innovative aid instruments and flexible financing: providing better support to fragile states
It's politics, we’re not stupid: in defence of a division of labour between technocrats and politicians
Public financial management reforms in fragile states: the case of Democratic Republic of the Congo
Public financial management reforms in fragile states: the case of West Bank and Gaza
Public financial management reforms in fragile states: the case of Sierra Leone
Public financial management reforms in fragile states: the case of Kosovo
Interview with Economic Advisor to the President of South Sudan
Public finance reform in fragile states: grounds for cautious optimism?
The event brought together politicians and government officials from several countries with senior researchers and policy makers to examine the progress of public financial management reforms and the challenges that remain.
Public financial management reform in fragile states: grounds for cautious optimism?
Can aid address key governance constraints in public service delivery?
Common constraints and incentive problems in service delivery
The sequencing debate is over… or is it?
Laws, what are they good for?
Why most publications about public financial management sequencing are missing the point
Failed States Index belongs in the policy dustbin
Examining the evidence of pro-poor budgeting: new research agendas on public expenditure policy in developing countries
This round-table brought brought together researchers and policy advisors to examine the evidence on pro-poor budgeting in developing countries.
Developments in public finance: evidence, theory and practice
This event series delivered by the Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure (CAPE) explored pertinent issues in public finance in developing countries and fragile states. By convening a range of...
Public financial management reforms in post-conflict countries: synthesis report
A guide to public financial management literature for practitioners in developing countries
Time for a new deal for 'fragile states'
Getting better results from assistance to fragile states
A new aid deal for fragile states?
This event will consider whether a new aid deal is needed for fragile states and what this deal might look like, bringing together a range of views from civil society, the research community and fragile states themselves.
Scaling up what works: managing risks in fragile states
Coordinating post-conflict aid in Southern Sudan
Post-war programme implementation and procurement: some lessons from the experience of Afghanistan
Fragile states: measuring what makes a good pooled fund
Pooled funds scoring tool
The use of innovative aid instruments in support of peacebuilding and statebuilding
Ten steps to improve IMF performance in fragile states
Accelerating the transition out of fragility: The role of finance and public financial management reform
Accelerating the transition out of fragility - the role of finance and public financial management reform
This is the sixth in a series of annual conferences on development finance and public financial management reform organised by the Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure at ODI. The conference will focus on the practical and policy aspects of how to use...
Planning and budgeting in Southern Sudan: starting from scratch
This Briefing Paper considers lessons learned from Southern Sudan for planning and budgeting systems in post-conflict settings.