Aid effectiveness
- Finance and economic development framework essential for the implementation of NEPAD
- United Nations Online Network in Public Administration and Finance, 2002
- This paper explores the implications of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) for African policy makers. Drawing on the content of the NEPAD document, the paper asserts that finance and economic development ...
- Educating the first world to help fight third world poverty
- I. McDonnell; H.B.S. Lecomte; L. Wegimonte / OECD Development Centre, 2002
- This report compiles public attitudes to international development co-operation. It is the second in the series and is compiled in co-operation with the Council of Europe. The following trends in public attitude can be identifi...
- NEPAD, Nambia and development in Africa: questioning the model.
- J. Dahl; R. Shilimela / Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit, 2002
- The ‘New Partnership for Africa’s Development’ (NEPAD) is the latest attempt by African leaders to formulate an initiative to boost development on the continent, but is it a feasible approach for the continent? This pap...
- Challenges to Burnside and Dollar's conclusions on aid and growth linkages
- W. Easterly; R. Levine; D. Roodman / Center for Global Development, USA, 2003
- The authors of this paper revisit and update the data used by Burnside and Dollar in 2000 to check whether their influential conclusion that aid promotes growth in countries with sound policies continues to be supported by more data n...
- IMF view on strategies for NEPAD
- N. Funke; S. M. Nsouli / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 2003
- This paper reviews major issues involved in achieving the objectives of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD). Using a simple framework for evaluation, the analysis highlights considerations relevant to policymak...
- SADC Barometer
- Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003
- A new quarterly SAIIA publication intended to provide an independent and critical evaluation of progress on implementation of the various protocols, political and economic convergence and progress toward SADC’s economic and socia...
- Significant progress in external alliance for PRSP support
- World Bank, 2003
- This paper compiles reports from 12 countries being tracked by the World Bank for their progress towards achieving the Comprehensive Development Framework. It focuses especially on the promising trends within these countries of extern...
- Harmonization of aid delivery
- World Bank, 2003
- This paper looks at lessons on harmonization of aid delivery in terms of policies, procedures and practice between donors and partner countries alike. It focuses retrospectively on past country experiences that illustrated good practi...
- How can the human development targets be reached by 2015?
- L. Berlage; D. Cassimon; J. Dreze; P. Reding / European Network on Debt and Development, 2002
- The international community has the objective to meet the primary needs of human development in poor developing countries by 2015. This paper outlines a 15 year programme for implementing the 2015 human development targets and ...
- Harnessing the aid cycle to get the most out of the actors involved
- C. Zinnes; A. Bolaky / Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector, University of Maryland, Department of Economics, 2002
- The authors present a conceptual framework called 'Harnessing the Power of Incentives' and include techniques that USAID may use both to reduce the risk of having their interventions “hijacked” or blunted by uncooperative co...
- IMF view on strategies for NEPAD
- N. Funke; S. M. Nsouli / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 2003
- This paper reviews major issues involved in achieving the objectives of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD). Using a simple framework for evaluation, the analysis highlights considerations relevant to policymak...
- SADC Barometer
- Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003
- A new quarterly SAIIA publication intended to provide an independent and critical evaluation of progress on implementation of the various protocols, political and economic convergence and progress toward SADC’s economic and socia...
- Significant progress in external alliance for PRSP support
- World Bank, 2003
- This paper compiles reports from 12 countries being tracked by the World Bank for their progress towards achieving the Comprehensive Development Framework. It focuses especially on the promising trends within these countries of extern...
- Harmonization of aid delivery
- World Bank, 2003
- This paper looks at lessons on harmonization of aid delivery in terms of policies, procedures and practice between donors and partner countries alike. It focuses retrospectively on past country experiences that illustrated good practi...
- How can the human development targets be reached by 2015?
- L. Berlage; D. Cassimon; J. Dreze; P. Reding / European Network on Debt and Development, 2002
- The international community has the objective to meet the primary needs of human development in poor developing countries by 2015. This paper outlines a 15 year programme for implementing the 2015 human development targets and ...
- Harnessing the aid cycle to get the most out of the actors involved
- C. Zinnes; A. Bolaky / Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector, University of Maryland, Department of Economics, 2002
- The authors present a conceptual framework called 'Harnessing the Power of Incentives' and include techniques that USAID may use both to reduce the risk of having their interventions “hijacked” or blunted by uncooperative co...
- World Bank acknowledges the value of indigenous knowledge in development
- N. Gorjestani / Indigenous Knowledge Initiative, World Bank, 2001
- This paper introduces indigenous knowledge (IK) as a significant resource which could contribute to the increased efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability of the development process. IK is defined as the basis for community-level ...
- Is debt relief used productively?
- R. Greenhill; S. Blackmore / Jubilee Research, 2002
- The external debt owed by African countries is almost $300 billion. This is about 12 percent of the total debt owed by developing countries. This report analyses the current state of debt relief offered to Africa and underlines the im...
- Why indirect aid allocation is more effective than bilateral aid
- R. J. Langhammer / Kiel Institute of World Economics/Institut für Weltwirtschaft, 2002
- This report constitutes a challenge to the effectiveness of the World Bank's strategy of concentrating, and thereby increasing, aid on countries with 'good' policies. The arguments used against the World Bank policy include: ...
- Measuring and improving the impact of capacity development and program-based approaches
- R. Lavergne / Canadian International Development Agency, 2002
- This paper was produced as part of a set of studies on the special challenges of managing for results and accountability in CIDA when engaging in capacity development or in program-based approaches to development such as SWAps (Sector...
- 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
