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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- Assessing the impact of transparency and accountability initiatives
- ( R. Carlitz / Department for International Development, UK , 2012)
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Transparency of budget process has, in the last two decades, become one of the pillars of good governance. However, have budget-related transparency and accountability initiatives (TAIs) been effec...
Developing governance: challenges and progress
- ( T. Carothers;D. de Gramont / Carnegie Endowment for International Peace , 2011)
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Since emerging as a new donor enthusiasm in the 1990s, governance support has become a major area of aid to developing countries. The idea that remedying debilitating patterns of inefficient, corru...
- Evaluation of Norwegian assistance to IDPs in Somalia
- ( M. Fisher (ed);J. Quanjer (ed) / Norwegian Refugee Council , 2011)
- This report is an evaluation of a project in Galkaiyo, southern Puntland,implemented by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and supported by theSwedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SI...
- The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation stategy
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- Norad – The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation – is a specialised directorate under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Norad’s functions are laid down in the agency’s t...
- EU aid guidelines uphold the rights of vulnerable groups, but older people’s rights are not mentioned
- ( HelpAge International , 2011)
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Older people are some of the poorest of the world’s poor, where 100 million older men and women live on less than a dollar a day. This paper argues that the EU must rise to the challenge of p...
- Mind the gap: from evidence to policy impact - conference proceedings
- ( International Initiative for Impact Evaluation , 2011)
- The 3ie conference, Mind the Gap: From Evidence to Policy Impact, brought to centre stage the need to address this “tension between learning and doing” as Ruth Levine (Hewlett Foundation) ...
- Evaluation of Australian AusAID-supported education project portfolio in Papua New Guinea
- ( S. Packer;S. Emmott;K. Hinchliffe / Australian Agency for International Development , 2009)
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The developmental challenges in Papua New Guinea (PNG) are immense, considering that the PNG society consists of many isolated and fragmented communities. This evaluation addresses the question: ha...
- Australian assistance improved health outcomes in three Pacific poor countries, but some opportunities missed
- ( M. Foster;R. Condon;K. Janovsky / Australian Agency for International Development , 2009)
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New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu are poor countries that represent very challenging developmental environments. This report examines the effectiveness of Australian Agency for International ...
- Putting emergency reponses at the core of UK Government policy
- ( Department for International Development, UK , 2011)
- The scale, frequency and severity of rapid onset humanitarian disasters will continue to grow in the coming years, due to a number of factors - including rapid population growth, e...
- 2010: assessing aid and development
- ( A. Wilks / IBON International , 2010)
- Millions of people worldwide have insufficient food to eat, are vulnerable to disease and disaster, and receive minimal income. However, rich countries have already made a series of pledges on poverty...
