Building State Capacity in Africa Connection Speed:    : Building State Capacity in Africa : 11/16/2004 : 82    : English / : World :  Capacity Building     : Alan Gelb Sahr  Kpundeh Frannie Léautier Brian  Levy | Related Material | Recommendations |Related B-SPAN Videos |    If Africa is to have a well-functioning public sector there needs to be a paradigm shift in how to analyze and build state capacity. This is the core message in a new book from the World Bank, Building State Capacity in Africa: New Approaches, Emerging Lessons. Specifically, African governments and their partners should move from a narrow focus on organizational, technocratic, and public management approaches, to a broader perspective that incorporates both the political dynamics and the institutional rules of the game within which public organizations operate. BUILDING STATE CAPACITY IN AFRICA presents and analyzes recent experiences with supply-side efforts to build administrative capacity (administrative reform, pay policies, budget formulation), and demand-side efforts to strengthen government accountability to citizens (role and impact of national parliaments, dedicated anticorruption agencies, political dynamics of decentralization, education decentralization).  RELATED MATERIALS   Frannie Leautier Introduction.(PPT) Brian Levy and Sahr Kpundeh: Building State Capacity - New Approaches - Emerging Lessons (PPT) Book Flier: State Capacity in Africa (PDF) Aiming High: a video documentary on Uganda field visit RELATED B-SPAN EVENTS Capacity Building (90)