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Tackling the mines and explosive remnants of war in Iraq
( United Nations Development Programme , 2009)

The magnitude of Iraq’s problem with mine and unexploded remnants of war together with the socio-economic impact needs to be determined and addressed as a matter of urgency. As a recent signa...

Tools and methodologies for monitoring and evaluating agriculture and rural development
( B. Hall (ed);N. Okidegbe;T. Marchant;et al / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations , 2009)

While donors and development practitioners still lack a common framework of results indicators to measure the effectiveness of development assistance, this sourcebook sets out a menu of core i...

Evaluating technical assistance to post-conflict countries
( A. Burgi-Schmelz (ed) / International Monetary Fund , 2009)

This evaluation of technical assistance (TA) in statistics covers two post-conflict countries, namely, Mozambique and Rwanda during the period 2000–08. The evaluation is based on missions to ...

Unlocking Africa’s clean energy potential
( C. de Gouvello;F., B. Dayo;M. Thioye / The World Bank Carbon Finance Unit , 2008)
This study aims to evaluate sub-Saharan Africa’s potential for clean energy projects under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol. It also looks at the technical opportuniti...

Carbon financing and carbon market processes: a guide for Indigenous communities

( I. Barnsley / Institute of Advanced Studies. United Nations University, , 2008)

Greenhouse gas abatement activities can have both beneficial and detrimental impacts on the communities in which they operate. For this reason, it is vital that Indigenous communities have accurate...

Can better information improve emergency response?
( Inter-agency Working Group on Emergency Capacity , 2007)

This report presents the assessment findings of the Interagency Working Group (IWG) collaborative capacity-building effort. The assessment includes the field perspectives of IWG emergency operation...

Enhancing southern capacity: does the rhetoric match the reality?

( M. Couldrey (ed);T. Morris (ed) / Forced Migration Review , 2007)

Virtually every humanitarian agency talks about their commitment to building Southern capacity and, increasingly, this discourse has been focused on forming ‘partnerships’ with Southern...

Can donors supporrt environmental objectives General Budget Support?
( N. Bird; L. Cabral / Overseas Development Institute, London , 2007)
This paper examines how environmental objectives are pursued by donors in a context where aid delivery mechanisms are changing. It cites General Budget Support (GBS) as an example of an increasingly ...
Strengthening institutional mechanisms for early warning systems a priority for African food security
( J. Tefft; M. McGuire; N. Maunder / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations , 2006)
Prepared for the African Union, this report evaluates national and regional early warning systems (EWS) across Africa. It reveals that these systems have generally been effective in alerting countries...
Increased spending on HIV and AIDS has not come at the expense of funding for other areas
( E. Lief; J. Antonio Izazola-Lice / Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington , 2006)
Produced as a background paper to inform the conference, ‘Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership on HIV and AIDS’, this issue brief presents a preliminary analysis of HIV and AIDS financing in developing c...

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