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  Governance and Social Development Resource Centre: Enhancing Aid Effectiveness

  The Governance and Social Development Resource Centre provides a section on 'Enhancing Aid Effectiveness'.
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  Context-sensitive engagement: lessons learned from Swiss experiences in South Asia for aid effectiveness in fragile scenarios

  Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2008

  This paper was written for the High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra, Ghana and critically assesses Switzerland’s long-term experiences in South Asia particularly in Nepal, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Pakistan. The authors evaluate the work conducted in these countries, and distil lessons for engagement in fragile, conflict countries.
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  Economic incentives for peacebuilding

  Program for states and security, 2008

  This paper assesses and presents what social science literature tells us about economic incentives for peacebuilding. It mentions that a variety of such incentives exists in post-civil war situations.
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  A rethink on the use of aid mechanisms in health sector early recovery

  Royal Tropical Institute, 2009

  States emerging from protracted crises struggle to provide basic services. This is no more crucial than in the health sector where vulnerable ‘post-conflict’ populations are frequently in dire need of care.
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  Shifting sands: the search for ‘coherence’ between political and humanitarian responses to complex emergencies

  Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2000

  The early 1990s have seen increasing calls to enhance the coherence of political and humanitarian action. This report from ODI’s Humanitarian Policy Group examines the origins and evolution of the concept of coherence and its implications in practice. The report details the findings of a six-month study on the politics of coherence.
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  The forgotten states: aid volumes and volatility in difficult partnership countries (1992-2002)

  OECD DAC's Joint Learning and Advisory Process on Difficult Partnerships, 2005

  Difficult partnership countries (DPCs) are countries with weak policies and institutions, some of the most difficult environments for aid programmes, although they are also amongst the poorest countries. This paper summarises the findings of data analysis conducted for the DAC Learning and Advisory Process on aid allocations in difficult partnerships.
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  Round Table 7 on situations of fragility and conflict: discussion note – session 3: improving the delivery of international assistance for the reduction of fragility and conflict

  United Nations Development Group, 2008

  Over the past ten years United Nations’ (UN) peacekeeping operations have largely increased in number and importance. This short discussion note from the 3rd High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness highlights discussions from Round Table 7 on how to strengthen common approaches and improve division of labour among donor countries.
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  The applicability of the Paris Declaration in fragile and conflict-affected situations

  IDL Group, 2008

  The Paris Declaration sets out an overall framework of agreement and structure of mutual accountability between aid-receiving countries and their development partners to give substance to the consensus model of “country-led” development. This thematic study acts as a contribution to Accra discussions.
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  ‘Civil society with guns is not civil society’: aid, security and civil society In Afghanistan

  Centre for Civil Society, LSE, 2008

  Afghanistan has become the first theatre in which the USA’s seemingly contradictory goals of the War on Terror and the promotion of liberal democracy and free markets are being played out to their full. This paper examines the intensified convergence of aid, security and foreign policy goals since 9/11 and its effects on civil society in the context of Afghanistan.
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  Changing donor policy and practice on civil society in the post-9/11 aid context

  Development Studies Institute, LSE, 2008

  Through case studies of select bilateral development agencies (USAID, AusAID, DFID and SIDA), this paper explores changing policy and practice on civil society since 9/11. It identifies some emerging patterns and points out distinctions related to the security priorities of different governments, the bureaucratic architecture, and the historical backdrop to aid.

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