The study examines and analyses the role of Non-State Actors (NSAs) in public provision of primary education in Nigeria using descriptive and econometric techniques. The analysis demonstrates that the major source of funding of public primary education in Nigeria flows from the Federal...

The objective of the paper is to analyze the effectiveness of the existing institutional arrangements for providing primary education in Ethiopia. Using largely secondary data and a complementary survey of 100 schools and institutional assessment, the study clearly establishes the fact that as...

There are several reasons to believe that the level of cleanliness of a health facility adequately reflect the performance of service delivery actually received by the populace. This study extends Das Gupta et al (2004) analysis of health facility cleanliness by using the principal-agent theory...

One of the objectives of the Cameroon Health Sector Strategy is to improve the efficient use of resources in the health sector. To accomplish this goal, the government implemented a series of reforms to improve accountability among the different stakeholders of the health sector. This paper...

We investigate the effect of institutions on the delivery of services funded by the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) in meeting constituents’ needs in Kenya. Using household survey data collected by the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA) in 2006 from a sample...

population in the management of PHC

negative effect on PHC performances, this study calls for institutional mechanisms

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PHC and that client-power is an effective way of overcoming these government

that will reduce sorting, promote equal access to quality healthcare services