Aid effectiveness
- 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...
- NEPAD and the challenges of financing for development in Africa from a gender perspective
- Z. Randriamaro / Alternative Information & Development Centre, South Africa, 2002
- This paper explores what it calls the 'gender-blindness' of the NEPAD framework. It explores the way in which parts of its underlying framework and objectives undermine a gender equality agenda. In the first section, the author...
- African environmental consequences of relying on a commodity export strategy
- R. Muradian / World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, 2002, 2002
- The author argues that NEPAD will lead Africa's integration into the global economy through specialisation in the primary sector. The cyclical and downward trend of prices of commodities across time may force countries specialising in...
- As key stakeholders in Africa's future, children must be included in NEPAD's plans
- Save the Children Fund, Canada, 2002
- Designers of the New Economic Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) state that the initiative's success will depend upon its ownership by African people. However, not only does NEPAD remain unknown to around 50% of the populati...
- Has NEPAD neglected the people of Africa ?
- Africa Action, 2002
- The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) presents itself as a visionary initiative by African leaders to reconstruct and develop the continent. However, the South African Council of Churches (SACC) argues that NEPAD's visi...
- Is there really anything new about NEPAD?
- WSSD Web Site of the Heinrich Boell Foundation, 2002
- Collection of papers from a forum organised by the Heinrich Boell Foundation, together with the Mazingira Institute and the African academy of Sciences. The objective of the forum was to cricically examine the Partnership for African ...
- The launch of the New Partnership for Africa's Development must be the occasion for a profound questioning of the dominant, neo-liberal model of development.
- Pambazuka, 2002
- Report which welcomes the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) and particularly the engagement of the G8 countries as an important political moment but expresses a number of concerns. These can be summarised as...
- NEPAD and the challenges of financing for development in Africa from a gender perspective
- Z. Randriamaro / Alternative Information & Development Centre, South Africa, 2002
- This paper explores what it calls the 'gender-blindness' of the NEPAD framework. It explores the way in which parts of its underlying framework and objectives undermine a gender equality agenda. In the first section, the author...
- African environmental consequences of relying on a commodity export strategy
- R. Muradian / World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, 2002, 2002
- The author argues that NEPAD will lead Africa's integration into the global economy through specialisation in the primary sector. The cyclical and downward trend of prices of commodities across time may force countries specialising in...
- As key stakeholders in Africa's future, children must be included in NEPAD's plans
- Save the Children Fund, Canada, 2002
- Designers of the New Economic Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) state that the initiative's success will depend upon its ownership by African people. However, not only does NEPAD remain unknown to around 50% of the populati...
- Has NEPAD neglected the people of Africa ?
- Africa Action, 2002
- The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) presents itself as a visionary initiative by African leaders to reconstruct and develop the continent. However, the South African Council of Churches (SACC) argues that NEPAD's visi...
- Is there really anything new about NEPAD?
- WSSD Web Site of the Heinrich Boell Foundation, 2002
- Collection of papers from a forum organised by the Heinrich Boell Foundation, together with the Mazingira Institute and the African academy of Sciences. The objective of the forum was to cricically examine the Partnership for African ...
- The launch of the New Partnership for Africa's Development must be the occasion for a profound questioning of the dominant, neo-liberal model of development.
- Pambazuka, 2002
- Report which welcomes the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) and particularly the engagement of the G8 countries as an important political moment but expresses a number of concerns. These can be summarised as...
- Modelling aid effectiveness in generating growth
- C. Dalgaard; H. Hansen; F. Tarp / Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, Nottingham, 2002
- Looks at three issues in the aid effectiveness debate: the theoretical case for foreign aid. Using an endogenous growth version of the standard overlapping generations model, we show that aid can be an effective policy ...
- UN must further rethink its traditional modes of intervention to successfully promote democracy
- C. Santiso / Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, USA, 2001
- This paper assesses the scope and significance of the new development agenda endorsed by UNDP and attempts to gauge the promises and dilemmas of its efforts to consolidate peace by promoting democracy and strengthening good governance...
- What is the relationship between aid and growth?
- P. Collier; J. Dehn / World Bank, 2001
- This article analyses the relationship between aid and growth. The analysis finds that the better a country ' s policies, the more effective aid is in raising growth in that country. The article finds that: extreme nega...
- Aid, external debt and economic growth
- H. Hansen / WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
- The purpose of the present paper is to take a closer look at the impact of aid and external debt on economic growth in developing countries from the mid-1970s to 1993. The paper is organised around a collection of tables presenting th...
- 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
