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Following his look at the street level view of corruption in Sierra Leone, Jamie Hitchen examines how corruption and politics are increasingly intertwined.

Jamie Hitchen looks ahead to when Sierra Leone is declared Ebola free and asks how the country can build an adequate health care system that offers sufficient support and protection to patients and staff.

Speakers: Graham Ward CBE (ICAI Chief Commissioner), Diana Goode (ICAI), Mark Foster (ICAI), Romilly Greenhill (ODI)

Nick Branson and Jamie Hitchen consider claims about the efficacy of cash transfers in Africa and raise questions about whether the process is too often driven by donors rather than African governments.

Can cash transfer programmes be as successful in Africa as they were in Latin America for tackling poverty and reducing inequality? Nick Branson and Jamie Hitchen identify some potential benefits and shortcomings.

Maya Prabhu considers the adverse consequences for Tanzania’s parliament of the country’s heavy dependence on overseas aid as it enters an election year.

In this article for Devex, Gabriella Jóźwiak references ARI's September event "Aid under the microscope" at which aid watchdog ICAI's chief commissioner Graham Ward and colleagues discussed DFID's track record.

Speakers: Graham Ward CBE, (chief commissioner of ICAI), Marcus Cox and Alexandra Cran-McGreehin (ICAI)

Edward Paice reflects on the undesirable effects of interrupting remittance flows to Somalia and the UK government response which lays the blame, wrongly, at the door of Somali money transfer operators.