Aid effectiveness
- Aid and development: issues and reflections
- M. Tribe / Department of Economics, Strathclyde University, 2013
- This paper aims to explore three areas in the literature on aid and development. The first focuses on Dambisa Moyo’s controversial book Dead Aid (2009), developing some criticisms which were not fully elaborated in the reviews w...
- Implementing Global Public Policies : Are the Aid Agencies Walking the Talk?
- M. Mordasini / Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, 2012
- Today a broad recognition exists on the nature and scope of global public risks, and their impact on development. Based on available evidence and recent evaluation work by the World Bank, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation...
- Learning the Lessons? Assessing the response to the 2012 food crisis in the Sahel to build resilience for the future
- Oxfam, 2013
- In 2012, the Sahel region of West and Central Africa was once again hit by a severe food crisis, affecting over 18 million people at its peak. At the start of 2012, when the crisis began to unfold, many governments, donors and aid age...
- Can bilateral development cooperation programmes effectively improve performance through decentralised operation
- M. Kajimbwa / Eldis Document Store, 2011
- What is the potential of the decentralisation of bilateral development cooperation programmes as an aid to improving their performance in regard to poverty reduction? This book presents evidence-based observations on how de...
- When does Aid for Trade work best?
- Y. Basnett; J. Engel; J. Kennan; C. Kingombe; I. Massa; D.W. te Velde / Overseas Development Institute, 2012
- Aid for Trade has emerged as an important vehicle for assisting developing countries to improve their trade capacity and to benefit from the expansion of global markets. But any optimism on the volume of Aid for Trade flows is punctua...
- How to make Trade for Aid successful
- Y. Basnett; J. Engle / Overseas Development Institute, 2013
- Aid for Trade (AfT) has emerged as an important vehicle to help the private sector in developing countries to improve its trade capacity and to benefit from the expansion of global markets, which would allow for economic growth and jo...
- Rethinking the language of aid approach to development in the Pacific islands
- Pacific Institute of Public Policy, 2010
- In recent years, there has been much re-thinking on what aid is and how it should be delivered. This paper addresses these questions and related issues from a Pacific perspective. The paper argues that many aid programs ar...
- New dynamics for gender equality in a changing context
- W Harcourt / The United Nations Economic and Social Council, 2012
- Wendy Harcourt delivered this keynote address at the UN Development Cooperation Forum (DCF) Vienna Policy Dialogue, the aim of which was to make policy recommendations for more effective and coherent international cooperation to achie...
- Impact of development aid - evidence to UK House of Lords
- UK Parliament, 2011
- This document includes all responses to a call from the UK's House of Lords Select Committee on Economic Affairs, on the economic impact and effectiveness of development aid. The inquiry sought to assess the impact of official d...
- Briefing outlining the debate over principles and mechanisms for delivering adaptation funds
- T. Mitchell; S. Anderson; S. Huq / Institute of Development Studies, Sussex [ES], 2008
- This briefing aims to stimulate debate on the relevant principles and mechanisms for effective adaptation delivery. It highlights the context of the debate noting that funding must increase significantly to match the needs of developi...
- Aid and development: issues and reflections
- M. Tribe / Department of Economics, Strathclyde University, 2013
- This paper aims to explore three areas in the literature on aid and development. The first focuses on Dambisa Moyo’s controversial book Dead Aid (2009), developing some criticisms which were not fully elaborated in the reviews w...
- Implementing Global Public Policies : Are the Aid Agencies Walking the Talk?
- M. Mordasini / Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, 2012
- Today a broad recognition exists on the nature and scope of global public risks, and their impact on development. Based on available evidence and recent evaluation work by the World Bank, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation...
- Learning the Lessons? Assessing the response to the 2012 food crisis in the Sahel to build resilience for the future
- Oxfam, 2013
- In 2012, the Sahel region of West and Central Africa was once again hit by a severe food crisis, affecting over 18 million people at its peak. At the start of 2012, when the crisis began to unfold, many governments, donors and aid age...
- Can bilateral development cooperation programmes effectively improve performance through decentralised operation
- M. Kajimbwa / Eldis Document Store, 2011
- What is the potential of the decentralisation of bilateral development cooperation programmes as an aid to improving their performance in regard to poverty reduction? This book presents evidence-based observations on how de...
- When does Aid for Trade work best?
- Y. Basnett; J. Engel; J. Kennan; C. Kingombe; I. Massa; D.W. te Velde / Overseas Development Institute, 2012
- Aid for Trade has emerged as an important vehicle for assisting developing countries to improve their trade capacity and to benefit from the expansion of global markets. But any optimism on the volume of Aid for Trade flows is punctua...
- How to make Trade for Aid successful
- Y. Basnett; J. Engle / Overseas Development Institute, 2013
- Aid for Trade (AfT) has emerged as an important vehicle to help the private sector in developing countries to improve its trade capacity and to benefit from the expansion of global markets, which would allow for economic growth and jo...
- Rethinking the language of aid approach to development in the Pacific islands
- Pacific Institute of Public Policy, 2010
- In recent years, there has been much re-thinking on what aid is and how it should be delivered. This paper addresses these questions and related issues from a Pacific perspective. The paper argues that many aid programs ar...
- New dynamics for gender equality in a changing context
- W Harcourt / The United Nations Economic and Social Council, 2012
- Wendy Harcourt delivered this keynote address at the UN Development Cooperation Forum (DCF) Vienna Policy Dialogue, the aim of which was to make policy recommendations for more effective and coherent international cooperation to achie...
- Impact of development aid - evidence to UK House of Lords
- UK Parliament, 2011
- This document includes all responses to a call from the UK's House of Lords Select Committee on Economic Affairs, on the economic impact and effectiveness of development aid. The inquiry sought to assess the impact of official d...
- Briefing outlining the debate over principles and mechanisms for delivering adaptation funds
- T. Mitchell; S. Anderson; S. Huq / Institute of Development Studies, Sussex [ES], 2008
- This briefing aims to stimulate debate on the relevant principles and mechanisms for effective adaptation delivery. It highlights the context of the debate noting that funding must increase significantly to match the needs of developi...
- 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...
- Tiri
- Tiri is an independent non-governmental organisation that works with governments, business and civil society in an attempt to find practical solutions to making integrity work. They assert that improvements in integrity offer perhaps the single largest opportunity for sustainable and equitable development worldwide.
- Governance and Social Development Resource Centre: Enhancing Aid Effectiveness
- The Governance and Social Development Resource Centre provides a section on 'Enhancing Aid Effectiveness'. Their resources discuss whether aid effectiveness strategies are relevant in fragile states and seeks to establish best practice for aid provision in difficult environments.
- CSO Parallel Process to the Ghana High Level Forum Network
Network of CSOs working to influence the aid architecture and aid effectiveness agenda
