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From aid to partnership: a joint review of Norwegian - South African development cooperation 1995-2001
Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2003The study provides an overview and an assessment of the Norwegian development assistance to South Africa since the first democratic elections in 1994.The report finds that nearly one billion Norwegian kroner were disbursed from Norway to South Africa during the first seven years.DocumentSustaining local level development: what worked and what did not: lessons from the phasing-out of Norwegian aid to the Hambantota Integrated Rural Development Programme (HIRDEP), Sri Lanka 1992-1999
Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2003This paper examines what happens when funding for a project reaches its phase-out stage and the project must stand alone. It summarises the main experiences and lessons from twenty years of the Hambantota Integrated Rural Development Programme (HIRDEP), with a focus on the last phase from 1992 to 1999.Findings include:the phasing-out did not go as initially planned.DocumentTargeting poverty through community-based public works programs: a cross-disciplinary assessment of recent experience in South Africa
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2001This paper examines the performance of seven programs in Western Cape Province at involving community participation and at targeting the poor and women.DocumentEconomic development in Africa: from adjustment to poverty reduction: what is new?
United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2002This year’s "Economic development in Africa" report reviews the policy content of the poverty reduction programmes in Africa.DocumentTools to support participatory urban decision making
United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 2001This toolkit to support participatory urban decision-making was prepared as part of the Global Campaign on Urban Governance, a campaign led by UN-HABITAT in collaboration with a whole range of partners, which seeks to contribute to the eradication of poverty through improved urban governance.The toolkit provides information on a continuously growing set of urban management tools which are relatDocumentGlobalisation and dimensions of poverty
Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department for International Development Cooperation / FINNIDA, 2003What is the impact on poverty of prevailing globalisation? Is the globalisation process a neutral economic phenomenon that can be harnessed to benefit everyone, or is it a conquest-like political process intrinsically slanted to benefit the few? This report looks at these crucial questions in the present globalisation debate.DocumentPublic expenditure for development results and poverty reduction
Overseas Development Institute, 2003Review and case studies of "Results-oriented (or ‘performance’ or ‘output’) budgeting": the planning of public expenditures for the purpose of achieving explicit and defined results. These policies have often been first implemented through sector-wide approaches (SWAps), particularly in health and education.DocumentThinking strategically about politics and poverty
Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999This synthesis of a large research exercise offers a series of guidelines for thinking about specific cases. The most general guideline is 'don't be (so) gloomy'. Political analysis does not serve only to explain why desirable outcomes are sometimes difficult to achieve. Good analysis also tells us about the wide range of opportunities that exist for pro-poor policies.DocumentSocial Fund: an effective instrument to support local action for poverty reduction?
Department for International Development, UK, 2000Argues that social funding could modify existing patterns of participation and local power relations, which in turn could lead to new forms of exclusion. There are certain elements ,or conditions that need to be considered more carefully if social funds are to be designed well.