Poverty focused aid
- Adaptation and development: the need for integrated approaches
- H. McGray; A. Hammill; R. Bradley / World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2007
- As leaders begin to consider policies and measures to respond to mounting climate effects, it is critical that adaptation efforts be designed to reach the poorest communities to safeguard their development efforts. This paper reviews ...
- Understanding the politics of aid delivery
- A. de Haan; M. Everest-Phillips / World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2007
- Aid delivery is inherently political. In the context of increasing aid flows and greater donor coordination, how will aid interact with local political forces? This paper looks at a range of recent developments in the ways in which ai...
- How much Australian aid is spent on poverty reduction?
- F. Duxfield; K. Wheen / AID/WATCH, 2007
- At $3.16 billion, Australian aid is supposedly the most generous it has ever been but is this aid being spent on poverty reduction? This report explores Australia's aid budget and reveals that upwards of a billion dollars in Australia...
- What can poor people teach us about development?: lessons from PPAs in India
- S. Viswanathan; R. Srivastava / Asian Development Bank, 2007
- Since the late 1990s, policy makers, donors, NGOs and researchers have become increasingly interested in participatory poverty assessments (PPAs) and participatory evaluation of development initiatives for the poor. This synthesis rep...
- Using the household economy approach in cash transfer programmes
- J. Seaman; J. Acidri; M. Kachale / Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2007
- Cash transfer programmes have been proposed as a means of providing benefits to targeted individuals or households in poorer African countries. A large programme aimed at poverty relief would require information to establish targ...
- How can the aid community help build effective developmental states?
- V. Fritz; A. Menocal / Development Policy Review, 2007
- The developmental state is back at the centre of the international policy debate, yet policy-makers still have much to learn from the large research-based literature on the subject. This article, which introduces a special theme-based...
- Will US biofuel production limit food aid flows to Southern Africa?
- C. Grant / Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2007
- The production of biofuel has more than doubled in the United States since 2001 while food aid levels have been steadily declining. This brief considers how the global shift to ethanol may affect food aid flows to Southern Africa. In ...
- How can civil society contribute towards achieving the MDGs in southern Africa?
- Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2007
- This paper summarises the proceedings of a policy dialogue on progress made towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). The dialogue brought together representatives of civil s...
- Are European government inflating their aid figures?
- L. Hayes / European NGO Confederation for Relief and Development, 2007
- This report provides and assessment of the European Union’s commitment to increase official development assistance. The report finds that European governments are falling short of their commitments while making misleading claims...
- Has budget support in Ghana contributed to poverty reduction?
- T. Killick / Overseas Development Institute, 2007
- This policy brief presents a case study of general budget support (GBS) in Ghana. It is argued that, by providing aid as budget support, donors have taken risks and made important contributions to poverty alleviation and governance. I...
- Understanding the politics of aid delivery
- A. de Haan; M. Everest-Phillips / World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2007
- Aid delivery is inherently political. In the context of increasing aid flows and greater donor coordination, how will aid interact with local political forces? This paper looks at a range of recent developments in the ways in which ai...
- How much Australian aid is spent on poverty reduction?
- F. Duxfield; K. Wheen / AID/WATCH, 2007
- At $3.16 billion, Australian aid is supposedly the most generous it has ever been but is this aid being spent on poverty reduction? This report explores Australia's aid budget and reveals that upwards of a billion dollars in Australia...
- What can poor people teach us about development?: lessons from PPAs in India
- S. Viswanathan; R. Srivastava / Asian Development Bank, 2007
- Since the late 1990s, policy makers, donors, NGOs and researchers have become increasingly interested in participatory poverty assessments (PPAs) and participatory evaluation of development initiatives for the poor. This synthesis rep...
- Using the household economy approach in cash transfer programmes
- J. Seaman; J. Acidri; M. Kachale / Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2007
- Cash transfer programmes have been proposed as a means of providing benefits to targeted individuals or households in poorer African countries. A large programme aimed at poverty relief would require information to establish targ...
- How can the aid community help build effective developmental states?
- V. Fritz; A. Menocal / Development Policy Review, 2007
- The developmental state is back at the centre of the international policy debate, yet policy-makers still have much to learn from the large research-based literature on the subject. This article, which introduces a special theme-based...
- Will US biofuel production limit food aid flows to Southern Africa?
- C. Grant / Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2007
- The production of biofuel has more than doubled in the United States since 2001 while food aid levels have been steadily declining. This brief considers how the global shift to ethanol may affect food aid flows to Southern Africa. In ...
- How can civil society contribute towards achieving the MDGs in southern Africa?
- Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2007
- This paper summarises the proceedings of a policy dialogue on progress made towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). The dialogue brought together representatives of civil s...
- Are European government inflating their aid figures?
- L. Hayes / European NGO Confederation for Relief and Development, 2007
- This report provides and assessment of the European Union’s commitment to increase official development assistance. The report finds that European governments are falling short of their commitments while making misleading claims...
- Has budget support in Ghana contributed to poverty reduction?
- T. Killick / Overseas Development Institute, 2007
- This policy brief presents a case study of general budget support (GBS) in Ghana. It is argued that, by providing aid as budget support, donors have taken risks and made important contributions to poverty alleviation and governance. I...
- Addressing the needs of the Dhaka's urban poor
- World Bank Office, Dhaka, 2007
- Dhaka is the fastest growing mega-city in the world, attracting an estimated 300,000 to 400,000 mostly poor migrants a year. This paper argues that urgent measures are required to address the vital needs of the city's rapidly growing ...
- Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Website (IPC)
- The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) is a standardised tool that aims at providing a “common currency” for classifying food security. By using a common scale, which is comparable across countries, the tool is designed to make it easier for donors, agencies and governments to identify priorities for intervention before they become catastrophic. The IPC web...
