DPADM's flagship report, the "World Public Sector Report 2008" is now available in printed version. The WPSR 2008 focuses on "People Matter: Civic Engagement in Public Governance." To request a complementary copy contact: Candace Hosang (showMailTo('hosang1','un.org','')) Mary Elizabeth Danseco (showMailTo('danseco','un...

Edited by Dr Wouter Van Dooren and Dr Steven Van de Walle October 2008 Price: £50 Performance information has long permeated the public sector. The actual use of performance information however has long been taken for granted. This book is one of the first to bring together an international team of acclaimed academics focusing on how and whether politicians, public officials, and citizens use public sector performance information...

The report presents the research findings of four African universities which focus on policy and reform, pedagogy, training of teachers, and academic research. The report explores policies and reforms of educational systems in Africa; it examines educational programmes, including pedagogy and teaching tools and further presents a synthesis of research on education in Africa...

By Dambisa Moyo Synopsis In the past fifty years, more than $1 trillion in development-related aid has been transferred from rich countries to Africa. Has this assistance improved the lives of Africans? No. In fact, across the continent, the recipients of this aid are not better off as a result of it, but worse—much worse...

New book launched by one of the former colleagues of the National Institute for Public Administration (NIPA), Zambia, Ethiopia and the United States - History, Diplomacy and Analysis - By Getachew Metaferia (Ph.D.). According to the publishers it is the first comprehensive publication that deals with the history of contacts, the diplomatic relations, and the shifting of alliances between the United States and Ethiopia...

New book Sectors and Skills: The Need for Policy Alignment edited by Dr Andre Kraak (2009). This monograph presents the results of a large-scale study of the skill demands of five economic clusters in South Africa. The analysis shows that each sector requires customised skills development strategies to meet specific sectoral conditions...

Linda Chisholm, Gita Steiner-Khamsi (eds) (2009). How real is South-South transfer? What does it mean in practice? Why has it become an issue? This volume, the first academic book to deal specifically with South-South cooperation in relation to education, shifts the discussion away from the promotional material of international development agencies and non-governmental organisations (NGOs), to critically look at why so many agencies and researchers in development studies herald South-South transfer as a new type of international technical assistance that propels a more symmetrical relationship between the lenders and the borrowers of educational reforms or projects.

By Kenyan Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai (2009) Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and founder of the Green Belt Movement, offers a refreshingly unique perspective on the challenges facing Africa, even as she calls for a moral revolution among Africans themselves, who, she argues, are culturally deracinated, adrift between worlds...