AACA Addis Ababa City Administration
AACG Addis Ababa City Government
AAEPA Addis Ababa Environmental Protection Authority
ACLED Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project
ACODE Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment [Uganda]
ADLG Arua District Local Government [Uganda]
AFARD Agency for Accelerated Rural Development [Uganda]
AM Assembly Member
AMPATH Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare
APC All Progressive Congress
CCMS Centre for Communication, Media and Society [University of
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa]
CDD-Ghana Ghana Center for Democratic Development
CDR Committees for the Defence of the Revolution [Ghana]
CSA Central Statistical Authority [Ethiopia]
CWS Church World Service
DA District Assembly
DACF District Assemblies Common Fund
DCC/MCC District/Municipal/Metropolitan Coordinating Council
DCE District Chief Executive
DCU District Coordinating Unit
DDF District Development Fund
DFID Department for International Development
DLT District League Table
DMTDP District Medium Term Development Plan
dRPC Development Research and Projects Center [Nigeria]
ELLA Evidence and Lessons from Latin America
ENDA Environmental Development Action [Ethiopia]
FDRE Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
FeMSEDA Federal Micro and Small Enterprise Development Agency
GHS Ghanaian cedi
GIZ Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit
[German Corporation for International Cooperation]
HIPC Highly Indebted Poor Countries
HIT Health Information Technology
HOA Horn of Africa
IDEP African Institute for Economic Development and Planning
IIAG Ibrahim Index of African Governance
ICT information and communications technology
IFPRI International Food Policy Research Institute
ILO International Labour Organization
IMCC Inter-Ministerial Coordinating Committee [Ghana]
ISEAS Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
KNHCR Kenya National Commission on Human Rights
LGA local government area
LGCSCA Local Government Councils Scorecard Assessment
MoES Ministry of Education and Sports [Uganda]
MoH Ministry of Health
MOUD Ministry of Urban Development [Ethiopia]
MSSE micro- and small-scale enterprise
NDC National Democratic Congress [Ghana]
NICU Nursing Intensive Care Unit.
NGO non-governmental organisation
NPP New Patriotic Party
NRM National Resistance Movement [Uganda]
NSCDC Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps
ODI Overseas Development Institute
OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
PASGR Partnership for African Social and Governance Research
PBL problem-based learning
PCRC Police-Community Relations Committee
PLE Primary Leaving Examination
PPP public–private partnership
PSM public service motivation
RCC Regional Coordinating Council
SBPDA Sanitation, Beautification and Park Development Agency
SSS State Security Service
UNDP United Nations Development Programme
UNFPA United Nations Population Fund
UNICEF United Nations Children's Fund
UNN University of Nigeria, Nsukka
UNODC United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
UPE Universal Primary Education
URA Uganda Revenue Authority
USAID United States Agency for International Development
WCC World Council of Churches
WENDI West Nile Development Initiative