Aid effectiveness
- 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...
- Assessing Sector Budget Support
- G. Handley (ed) / Overseas Development Institute, 2009
- The development of more programmatic approaches to aid delivery is intimately linked to the aid effectiveness agenda and the Paris Declaration. This paper is a literature review pertaining to the operation of Sector Budget Support (SB...
- Mozambique: assessing aid and budget transparency
- S. Goicoecha / European Network on Debt and Development, 2010
- External donors contributed some US$1.6 billion in aid to the Government of Mozambique in 2009. These donors have all committed to making aid more effective by adhering to the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and to the Accra Ag...
- Corruption and aid: analysing donor approaches
- I. Kolstad (ed); V. Fritz (ed); T. O'Neil (ed) / Overseas Development Institute, 2008
- Corruption is the abuse of public office or entrusted power for private gain. This paper looks at the linkages between good governance, new aid modalities and poverty reduction. It provides a review of the literature relating to corru...
- Reinforcing mechanisms and processes for mutual accountability
- M. Martin (ed); G. Rabinowitz; K. Kyrili / The United Nations Economic and Social Council, 2010
- One key thematic focus area for the UN Development Cooperation Forum (DCF) in assessment of trends in development cooperation is reinforcing mutual accountability (MA). This review focuses on the mechanisms and processes in which stak...
- Arguing the case for improved quality and quantity of aid
- J. Burnley / Oxfam, 2010
- Recent critics of aid programmes have argued that aid is in fact the key cause of economic dependency, lack of growth, corruption, and even laziness amongst people living in poverty. The persistence of poverty has cast doubt over the ...
- How can donors best support parliaments?
- A. Tostensen (ed); I. Amundsen (ed) / Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2010
- The legislature is the crux of democracy because a strong parliament signifies a healthy democracy and good governance. As a result, donor agencies have since the early 1990s been supporting parliaments as part of their good governanc...
- Can budget support aid better governance?
- G. Negatu; E. Santi; K. Tench / European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2010
- Budget support is seen as the instrument of choice for many donors and partners to help avoid aid proliferation and fragmentation, and the resultant transaction costs; increase the availability of resources for financing recurrent cos...
- Aid and governance: time for a radical re-think?
- Institute of Development Studies UK, 2010
- Prescriptive donor aid practices have long caused consternation amongst development researchers and practitioners. The aid effectiveness agenda sought to instead empower recipient development governments by insisting that donors work ...
- Progressing towards the MDGs?: improving Pacific government effectiveness
- Australian Agency for International Development, 2009
- Achieving effective and accountable governance is essential for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This report addresses development and governance in the Pacific region where development partners have injected signifi...
- Assessing Sector Budget Support
- G. Handley (ed) / Overseas Development Institute, 2009
- The development of more programmatic approaches to aid delivery is intimately linked to the aid effectiveness agenda and the Paris Declaration. This paper is a literature review pertaining to the operation of Sector Budget Support (SB...
- Mozambique: assessing aid and budget transparency
- S. Goicoecha / European Network on Debt and Development, 2010
- External donors contributed some US$1.6 billion in aid to the Government of Mozambique in 2009. These donors have all committed to making aid more effective by adhering to the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and to the Accra Ag...
- Corruption and aid: analysing donor approaches
- I. Kolstad (ed); V. Fritz (ed); T. O'Neil (ed) / Overseas Development Institute, 2008
- Corruption is the abuse of public office or entrusted power for private gain. This paper looks at the linkages between good governance, new aid modalities and poverty reduction. It provides a review of the literature relating to corru...
- Reinforcing mechanisms and processes for mutual accountability
- M. Martin (ed); G. Rabinowitz; K. Kyrili / The United Nations Economic and Social Council, 2010
- One key thematic focus area for the UN Development Cooperation Forum (DCF) in assessment of trends in development cooperation is reinforcing mutual accountability (MA). This review focuses on the mechanisms and processes in which stak...
- Arguing the case for improved quality and quantity of aid
- J. Burnley / Oxfam, 2010
- Recent critics of aid programmes have argued that aid is in fact the key cause of economic dependency, lack of growth, corruption, and even laziness amongst people living in poverty. The persistence of poverty has cast doubt over the ...
- How can donors best support parliaments?
- A. Tostensen (ed); I. Amundsen (ed) / Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2010
- The legislature is the crux of democracy because a strong parliament signifies a healthy democracy and good governance. As a result, donor agencies have since the early 1990s been supporting parliaments as part of their good governanc...
- Can budget support aid better governance?
- G. Negatu; E. Santi; K. Tench / European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2010
- Budget support is seen as the instrument of choice for many donors and partners to help avoid aid proliferation and fragmentation, and the resultant transaction costs; increase the availability of resources for financing recurrent cos...
- Aid and governance: time for a radical re-think?
- Institute of Development Studies UK, 2010
- Prescriptive donor aid practices have long caused consternation amongst development researchers and practitioners. The aid effectiveness agenda sought to instead empower recipient development governments by insisting that donors work ...
- Progressing towards the MDGs?: improving Pacific government effectiveness
- Australian Agency for International Development, 2009
- Achieving effective and accountable governance is essential for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This report addresses development and governance in the Pacific region where development partners have injected signifi...
- Assessing governance in Nepal
- Asian Development Bank, 2014
- While a period of uncertainty has ended in Nepal, a new period of uncertainty has begun wherein there is a lack of clarity on how the move to frame a new constitution will impact the final shape of the polity - particularly with respe...
- 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
