Aid effectiveness
- Australian assistance improved health outcomes in three Pacific poor countries, but some opportunities missed
- M. Foster; R. Condon; K. Janovsky / Australian Agency for International Development, 2009
- New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu are poor countries that represent very challenging developmental environments. This report examines the effectiveness of Australian Agency for International Development’s support to improv...
- Putting emergency reponses at the core of UK Government policy
- Department for International Development, UK, 2011
- The? scale,? frequency? and? severity? of? rapid? onset? humanitarian? disasters will? continue? to? grow? in? the? coming? years,? due to a number of factors - including rapid? population? growth,? especially? in? disaster? prone? ar...
- 2010: assessing aid and development
- A. Wilks / IBON International, 2010
- Millions of people worldwide have insufficient food to eat, are vulnerable to disease and disaster, and receive minimal income. However, rich countries have already made a series of pledges on poverty reduction and environmental prote...
- The importance of parliamentary oversight in ensuring aid effectiveness
- A. Mokoro (ed); K. Heim (ed); J. Balch (ed) 2009
- Aid effectiveness has, of late, become a subject of intense international debate resulting in a variety of international commitments for reform after the realisation that billions of dollars spent by donors have not yielded positive r...
- Donor strategy toward Ethiopia needs fundamental rethinking
- B. Rawlence / Human Rights Watch, 2010
- Ethiopia is one of the poorest countries in the world, and is also one of the world's largest recipients of foreign development aid. Foreign donors insist that their support underwrites agricultural growth, food security, and other no...
- The effect of foreign aid on armed conflicts
- R. Nielsen (ed); M. Findley (ed); Z. Davis (ed) / Brigham Young University Political Science Department, 2010
- Researchers have attempted to link foreign aid to conflict with some suggesting that aid exacerbates existing ethnic cleavages while others say it presents an opportunity to payoff rebels who start civil war. Yet others argue that aid...
- Acheiving the MDGs: what do Africans say?
- W. Nyamugasira (ed) / African Monitor, 2010
- It is ten years since the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were adopted. Various international, continental and regional bodies have been reviewing MDG progress on an ongoing basis. This report makes contribution using ordinary Afr...
- 2010: trends in multilateral aid
- Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 2010
- Multilateral ODA has increased over the past two decades although its share of total ODA has been relatively stable in the same period. This report delves into trends in core and non-core multilateral aid, the development perspectives...
- Reviewing the role of World Bank post-disaster cash transfers in Asia
- R. Heltberg / Development Policy Review, 2007
- This article reviews major cash transfers to households as a mean of social protection in a number of Asian countries. Looking at Turkey, Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Pakistan in particular, the author indicates the role which the...
- The State’s legitimacy in fragile situations - unpacking complexity
- S. Massing (ed) / OECD Development Co-operation Directorate: DAC Guidelines and Reference Series, 2010
- Putting emergency reponses at the core of UK Government policy
- Department for International Development, UK, 2011
- The? scale,? frequency? and? severity? of? rapid? onset? humanitarian? disasters will? continue? to? grow? in? the? coming? years,? due to a number of factors - including rapid? population? growth,? especially? in? disaster? prone? ar...
- 2010: assessing aid and development
- A. Wilks / IBON International, 2010
- Millions of people worldwide have insufficient food to eat, are vulnerable to disease and disaster, and receive minimal income. However, rich countries have already made a series of pledges on poverty reduction and environmental prote...
- The importance of parliamentary oversight in ensuring aid effectiveness
- A. Mokoro (ed); K. Heim (ed); J. Balch (ed) 2009
- Aid effectiveness has, of late, become a subject of intense international debate resulting in a variety of international commitments for reform after the realisation that billions of dollars spent by donors have not yielded positive r...
- Donor strategy toward Ethiopia needs fundamental rethinking
- B. Rawlence / Human Rights Watch, 2010
- This brief presents the main conclusions from the fifth in a series of six studies monitoring and evaluating Mozambique’s poverty reduction strategy PARPA II, using a combination of quantitative and qualitative data. It analyses ...
- The effect of foreign aid on armed conflicts
- R. Nielsen (ed); M. Findley (ed); Z. Davis (ed) / Brigham Young University Political Science Department, 2010
- Researchers have attempted to link foreign aid to conflict with some suggesting that aid exacerbates existing ethnic cleavages while others say it presents an opportunity to payoff rebels who start civil war. Yet others argue that aid...
- Acheiving the MDGs: what do Africans say?
- W. Nyamugasira (ed) / African Monitor, 2010
- It is ten years since the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were adopted. Various international, continental and regional bodies have been reviewing MDG progress on an ongoing basis. This report makes contribution using ordinary Afr...
- 2010: trends in multilateral aid
- Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 2010
- Multilateral ODA has increased over the past two decades although its share of total ODA has been relatively stable in the same period. This report delves into trends in core and non-core multilateral aid, the development perspectives...
- Reviewing the role of World Bank post-disaster cash transfers in Asia
- R. Heltberg / Development Policy Review, 2007
- This article reviews major cash transfers to households as a mean of social protection in a number of Asian countries. Looking at Turkey, Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Pakistan in particular, the author indicates the role which the...
- The State’s legitimacy in fragile situations - unpacking complexity
- S. Massing (ed) / OECD Development Co-operation Directorate: DAC Guidelines and Reference Series, 2010
- Exploring the link between donor aid and recipient budgets
- S. Moon (ed); Z. Mills (ed) / Overseas Development Institute [ES], 2010
- A large amount of donor aid in developing countries is spent without the knowledge of governments. The Paris Declaration and the Accra Agenda for Action emphasize the importance of aligning aid with recipient government priorities and...
- 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
