- Governance and Policy Formulation
- European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1997
- Summary proceedings of a 1997 meeting covering: The governance environment (including the evolving role of civil society and extra-governmental organisations) The locus of policy formulation: interface between...
- Putting life before debt
- Development and Peace, Canada, 1997
- Policy document from two networks of Catholic development organizations, the International Co-operation for Development and Solidarity (CIDSE) and Caritas Internationalis (CI), calling for the cancellation of the unpayable debt of the...
- Evaluation reports: Australian Agency for International Development
- Australian Agency for International Development, 1998
- Series of reports on evaluation of Australian development aid including: Evaluation findings: a compilation of AusAID's evaluation and review reports 1992/97 Monitoring and evaluation capacity-building study ...
- Grain Market Research Project, Ethiopia
- Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1998
- Series of full text papers on grain marketing and food security in Ethiopia. Papers include: Improving information and Performance in Grain Marketing. Tschirley D., Diskin P., Molla D. and Clay D. (September 1995). ...
- Global Economic Prospects and the Developing Countries 1997
- Prospects for Development [World Bank], 1997
- This year’s Global Economic Prospects reviews the implications for developing countries of three important changes in the world economy that globalization is bringing about. First, five large developing and transition economies -...
- Incentives and Provider Payment Methods [in the health sector]
- H. Barnum; J. Kutzin; H. Saxenian / Health, Nutrition and Population Division, Human Development Department, World Bank, 1995
- The mode of payment creates powerful incentives affecting provider behavior and the efficiency, equity and quality outcomes of health finance reforms. This paper examines provider incentives as well as administrative costs, and instit...
- Aid, the Incentive Regime, and Poverty Reduction
- C. Burnside; D. Dollar / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998
- Aid spurs growth and poverty reduction only in a good policy environment so it should be targeted to countries that have improved their economic policy. That aid tends to be allocated relatively indiscriminately is one factor that und...
- Participatory Organizational Evaluation Tool (POET)
- Communication Initiative, 1998
- Tool and procees to (a) measure and profile organizational capacities and consensus levels in seven critical areas, and assess, over time, the impact of these activities on organizational capacity (benchmarking). (b) process to build ...
- Poverty and Environment: Turning the Poor into Agents of Environmental Regeneration
- K.S. Parikh / Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 1998
- The poor adapt and learn to live with poverty in a variety of ways. They also try to cope with shocks from events such as droughts, floods and loss of employment. Environmental resources play a vital role in their survival strategies....
- Danish Aid Policy: Theory and Empirical Evidence
- F Tarp; C.F. Bach; H. Hansen; S. Baunsgaard / Development Economic Research Group, Denmark, 1998
- Study of Danish aid policy from the early 1960s to 1995. It includes (i) a review of officially stated aims and criteria, (ii) a descriptive analysis of actual behaviour in international comparative perspective, (iii) a review of the ...
- Personal and Institutional Factors in Capacity Building and Institutional Development
- J.C.N. Mentz / European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1997
- The central focus of this paper is an analysis of the concepts of capacity and capacity building and their role in public service management. The civil service plays a central role not only in economic development, but also in the dev...
- Workshop on Capacity Development in Environment: Tools and Challenges: Rome, Italy 4-6 December 1996
- Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 1999
- Environmental capacity means the ability of individuals and societies to respond effectively to environmental problems. Helping to develop this capacity has become a major strategic goal for development co-operation today. As pressure...
- Guidelines for Aid Agencies on Pest and Pesticide Management
- Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 1999
- Over the last decades, the use of pesticides in developing countries has rapidly increased, while the development and introduction of instruments to control their use and distribution has lagged behind. In many countries this has led ...
- Integrating Developing Countries in a Globalising World Economy: Key Points Emerging from the DAC Informal Expert Meeting on Capacity Development for Trade (11 March 1997)
- Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 1999
- Effects or impacts?: Synthesis Study on Evaluations and Reviews 1988 to mid-1995 [Finland's development cooperation projects]
- Juhani Koponen; Paivi Mattila-Wiro / Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department for International Development Cooperation / FINNIDA, 1996
- This is a synthesis study of major evaluations and reviews carried out from 1988 to mid-1995 for the Department for International Development Cooperation of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, formerly known as Finnida. The p...
- Evaluation of Finnish Personnel as Volunteers in Development Cooperation
- Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department for International Development Cooperation / FINNIDA, 1999
- The aim of this evaluation is to determine the relevance of the Finnish Volunteer Programme through examination of its three main objectives namely, developmental contribution, bridge-building and internationalisation. In respect of e...
- Urban Indicators Programme
- United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 1999
- The UNCHS Indicators Programme has developed key indicators concerning urban and housing conditions for the development of government policy and strategies, as well as monitoring and evaluation. These indicators, collected from over o...
- External debt statistics (selected data online)
- Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 1999
- OECD is the major source of creditor-based statistics on external debt. Debt stock and debt service statistics are available by category of debt, with world-wide coverage of non-OECD countries, for the period 1983 to 1995, as well as ...
- Assessment and monitoring of forest and tree resources
- R. Persson; K. Janz / World Forestry Congress, 1999
- The interest for better information about forest resources is growing at both national and international level. Demands for new types of information are now frequently being raised (regarding e.g. biological diversity, non- wood fores...
- Sub-Saharan Africa science support programme
- American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1999
- The AAAS Sub-Saharan Africa Program was inaugurated by AAAS in 1987, representing a concerned response on the part of U.S. scientists and educators to the institutional crisis their African colleagues were facing. Its establishment al...
- Development bank of Latin America
- Jubilee South Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and Development (JSAPMDD)
- Jubilee South Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and Development (JSAPMDD) is a regional alliance of peoples’ movements, community organisations, coalitions, NGOs and networks.
- United Nations High-level Panel on Global Sustainability (GSP)
- On 9 August 2010, the Secretary-General launched the High-level Panel on Global Sustainability (GSP) that brings together renowned world figures to formulate a new blueprint for a sustainable future on a planet under increasing stress resulting from human activities. Recognizing that climate change, water scarcity, loss of biodiversity, the destruction of ecosystems and shifting demogra...
- Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN)
- The Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) is a network of 22 member country governments that promotes global change research in the region, increases developing country involvement in that research, and strengthens interactions between the science community and policy-makers.
- Belize Red Cross Society
- In the Caribbean, the national Red Cross societies are assisted by the International Federation Secretariat, with regional offices based in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and the Dominican Republic, with support from the Americas Zone Office based in Panama. The IFRC secretariat provides services that include international coordination of disaster relief, capacity-building of National Societi...
- Brot für die Welt
- "Brot für die Welt" ("Bread for the World") is a programme of help initiated by the protestant churches in Germany. It was set up in Berlin in 1959 and since then has been the responsibility of the “Diakonische Werk”, the Social Service Agency of the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD). "Brot für die Welt" works jointly with local churches and par...
- Economics Web Institute
- Institute focusing on economics and management
- Publish What You Fund
- Publish What You Fund campaigns for aid transparency – more and better information about aid. It urges donors to disclose their aid information regularly and promptly, and in a standardised format that will be comparable with other countries and accessible to all. It supports greater disclosure of aid information in line with the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) Standar...
- United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
- Multidisciplinary research institute on development economics
- International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie)
- Policy impact evaluation
