An increasing scarcity of water for crop farming and livestock watering among agropastoralists of Mieso in Eastern Ethiopia has largely disrupted their livelihoods. Indigenous water well maintenance and government initiated rainwater harvesting are two important collective actions common among these communities. With the aim of examining collective action institutions in both cases, we collecte...

Can local colonial institutions continue to affect people’s lives nearly 50 years after decolonization? Can meaningful differences in local institutions persist within a single set of national incentives? The literature on colonial legacies has largely focused on cross country comparisons between former French and British colonies, large-n cross sectional analysis using instrumental variables, ...

Education is a complex systematic engineering, which is the guarantee of training high-quality talent, helping society make full use of educational outcomes and promote the healthy development of education. To step-in to that high quality education students have a chaos in evaluating the best among the several institutions and select the one. In this paper, we suggest an automatic student admis...

Social funds are well-suited for working with decentralized government to deliver local services and strengthen local institutions. This manual sets out the implications of decentralization for the design of social funds both as institutions and as bundles of processes for project selection and implementation. It also discusses how social funds can strengthen community and local government inst...

This article examines the concept and implementation of Islamic educational institutions based on local wisdom. research was conducted at Boarding School Musftafawiyah Madina. The method used to obtain data uses qualitative methods with a naturalistic or descriptive approach. Data analizy organized than reduksi conclusion. results study found that first, Purbabaru Mustafawiyah produce scholars ...

The Disease Control Priorities (DCP) publications have pioneered new ways of thinking about investing in health. We agree with Norheim, that a useful first step to advance efforts to translate DCP’s global evidence into local health priorities, is to develop a clear Theory of Change (ToC). However, a ToC that aims to define how global evidence (DCP and others) can be used to inform national pol...