Since 2004, 13 research projects supported in South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America by the Women's Rights and Citizenship program of Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC) have been exploring exactly how decentralization affects women's access to services, resources, a

This toolkit follows the transfer of public funds from central to local governments until they reach users such as schools and clinics. It explains how a public expenditure tracking system operates and how it can benefit marginalized groups.

The third report in a new research series on resources for women's rights organizing from the Association for Women's Rights in Development, this publication presents the results of our mapping of new donors making major commitments to work with "women and girls", to better understand this trend and