Aid effectiveness
- Vertical funds: good for aid?
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Are the current plethora of vertical fund programmes damaging the aid environment? This article, which forms part of a larger brief on vertical funds, considers the merits of the aid mechanism and asks if they are 'truly the best way to support important causes, or are they simply the path of least resistance which avoid some of the more difficult complexities of sustainable development?'
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Guidance on impact evaluation
- ( F. Leeuw;J. Vaessen / Network of Networks on Impact Evaluation , 2009)
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Many development interventions appear to leave no trace of sustained positive change after they have been terminated and it is hard to deternine the extent to which interventions are making a diffe...
- Joint donor team for south Sudan: progress in challenging aid environment
- ( J. Bennett;J. Kluyskens;J. Morton / Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation , 2009)
- Following the signing of Sudan’s peace agreement in 2005, the governments of three EU states established a Joint Donor Team (JDT) for south Sudan. The team's mission was to:...
Can the new aid modalities help the poorest?
- ( A. Shepherd;L. Cabral / Overseas Development Institute, London , 2008)
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This paper analyses three important elements of contemporary aid relations in-low income countries: poverty reduction strategies (PRSs), sector-wide approaches (SWAps) and general budget support (G...
- Can budget support be a valuable tool for aid effectiveness?
- ( InWEnt – Internationale Weiterbildung und Entwicklung gGmbH InWEnt - Capacity Building , 2009)
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General Budget Support (GBS) has emerged as a 'progressive' mode of development country assistance. Such a process accentuates the importance of partnership and ownership – rather t...
- Addressing aid orphans and climate change: making European aid effective
- ( G. Corre (ed);J. Mackie;S. Trenner / European Centre for Development Policy Management , 2008)
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This framework document analyses the European aid architecture and how best to deploy actors and aid instruments in the face of global challenges.
The proliferation of possible aid chan... - What is the way forward for South-South cooperation?
- ( M.C.S Betancourt;N-S Schulz / Fride , 2009)
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South-South cooperation (SSC) is gaining more prominence in the aid environment - particularly after being formally recognised in the official output of the Accra conference on aid effectivene...
- Reviewing the Paris Declaration commitments and the aid effectiveness agenda
- ( J. Cedergren;C. Hall;J. Siriboe / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development , 2009)
- This report is a mid-term review of progress towards the 2005 Paris Declaration commitments made by OECD-DAC partners and donors. Regarding each of the five Paris Declaration principles the autho...
- How can 'mutual accountability' between countries progress?
- ( L. Steer;C. Wathne / Overseas Development Institute, London , 2009)
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Mutual accountability is a practical response to recent experiences in building greater transparency and accountability at country level - and the lessons learned about the role of country ownershi...
- Service delivery in Africa
- ( S. Wangwe / African Economic Research Consortium , 2008)
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This paper argues that service delivery is important for attaining accelerated growth and human development and that resources need to be mobilised and be used effectively in order to improve servi...
What role can medium-sized donors play in policy dialogue?
- ( N. Molenaers;R. Renard / Institute of Development Policy and Management, University of Antwerp , 2008)
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The new aid approach (NAA) - crystallised in the Paris Declaration and the Accra Agenda for Action - pays particular attention to the politico-institutional dimension of development. It is largely ...
