Governance Themes

These pages allow you to explore the key governance capabilities identified by the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) as being key to poverty reduction. These themes are explored within DFID's Governance Target Strategy Paper, 'Making Government Work for Poor People' (2001). A series of leading complimentary and topical cross-cutting guides have also been developed. To view the full range of themes explored within these pages, click here.

Key texts and resources for each of the governance themes have been identified by leading experts in each area. For advice on accessing the recommended documents, click here. Links to recommended websites and organisations are also provided.

Some of the language used within these pages draws on DFID terminology. To help understand these terms, please see our glossary page.

Political Systems

Civil society

Legislatures

Participation

Political parties

Public Financial Management & Accountability

Socially responsive budgeting

Service Delivery

Education

Safety, Security & Access to Justice

Overview

Other donor approaches

Programmes and projects

Safety and security

Access to justice

Non-state justice and security systems

Penal reform

Transitional justice

Monitoring & evaluation

Useful internet links

Conflict

Conflict causes and dynamics

Strategic conflict assessments

Conflict prevention and conflict-sensitive approaches

The reconstruction of states affected by conflict

Governance aspects of security sector reform

International, regional and UK Government responses to conflict

Conflict case studies

Useful internet links

Cross-Cutting Topic Guides:

Aid Instruments

Budget Support

Decentralisation

Economic Growth & Governance

HIV/AIDS

Institutional Development

Measuring Governance

PRSPs

Civil Service Reform

SWAps

Fragile States

Security and development

Rights and development

Accessing the documentation
When the full documentation is available online, it can be downloaded as a PDF file. In order to read PDF files, you will need to have Adobe Acrobat installed on your computer. This can be downloaded for free from www.adobe.com
Where the document is not available online, it can be accessed through the BLDS document delivery service. Links to this service are provided.