Financing Service Delivery in Fragile States

Project Manager

Clare O'Brien »
Start Date:
June 2006
End Date:
August 2006
Country:
International
Client:
DFID
Funder:
DFID

Project Information

OPM contributed to a report on the first stage of a programme of work on 'Financing Service Delivery in Fragile States'. The broad purpose was to explore the extent to which existing published data on poverty in fragile states are sufficient to quantify access to basic social services - especially in education and health - and to social assistance. The research identified what data are available to respond to three broad questions:

  1. What is being spent on service delivery and social protection in fragile states?
  2. How are the resources being spent? and
  3. On whom are the resources being spent?

The study found that the availability of data even for internationally recognised health and education indicators, such as those to measure progress towards the Millennium Development Goals, is very varied: for instance, only half of the 46 fragile states in the study had information on the net enrolment rate in primary education. Social protection data were available for some social protection benefits in some countries but no country in the study had data for all four parameters on the limited list of basic social protection provisions identified: this may be related to the limited availability of social protection measures