Donor assessments

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Governance assessments and domestic accountability: how can donors aid the process?: ( S. Meyer / Fride , 2009); This paper follows on from recently completed research that investigated the impact of donor harmonisation on domestic processes of democratisation. The aim of this research is to further info...
Power relations between donors and aid recipients: ( Fride , 2008); This activity brief contains presentations by three development experts on the power relations between donors and recipients of aid and the repercussions of such relations on domestic politics in sout...
Governments and donors coordinating governance assessments: ( G. Williams;A. Duncan;P. Landell-Mills;S. Unsworth;T. Sheehy / The Policy Practice , 2009); A joint governance assessment (JGA) aims to bring government and development partners together to undertake a joint assessment of governance performance based on commonly agreed indicators. The first ...
Uses and abuses of governance indicators: ( C. Arndt;C. Oman / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development , 2008); Some international organisations, and most prominently the World Bank, play a leading role, both in the supply and use of cross-country governance ratings. This paper explains:...
Power and drivers of change analyses: a review: ( T. Dahl-Østergaard;S. Unsworth;M. Robinson / Governance and Social Development Resource Centre , 2005); This review compares and contrasts different donor approaches to conducting Power and Drivers of Change (DOC) analysis, and looks at what is being done with the findings, in order to learn lessons for...
Human rights as an aid condition: An assessment: ( K. Desormeau / Carr Center for Human Rights Policy , 2005); Donors have long used human rights arguments to justify the giving or withholding of development assistance. Until the late 1990s, however, donor governments relied mainly on subjective judgments. ...
How to conduct country governance analysis?: ( Department for International Development, UK , 2007); This Note provides operational guidance on how to conduct Country Governance Analysis (CGA). It aims to promote a consistent approach across DFID to ensure the analysis is clearly presented and based ...
Challenges and dilemnas in providing support to fragile situations: ( L. Engberg-Pedersen;L. Andersen;F. Stepputat / Danish Institute for International Studies , 2008); This report reviews current debates and central dilemmas in relation to fragile situations. It looks in particular at the challenges and dilemmas that characterise fragility and support to fragile sit...
An index of governance quality: ( J. Huther;A. Shah / World Bank , 1996); Discussions and policy work regarding the role, scope and effectiveness of government have typically taken place in the absence of empirical measures of governance quality. This paper attempts to fill...
What is driving change?: ( D. Warrener / Overseas Development Institute, London , 2004); This paper sets out an overview of DFID’s recently developed ‘Drivers of Change’ (DoC) approach, developed to address how DFID can interact with the ‘politics of development&rs...