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    Taking stock: What do PEFA assessments tell us about PFM systems across countries?

    Overseas Development Institute, 2009
    This paper analyses the results of 57 Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) assessments. It is a comparative cross-country performance overall and across different budget dimensions. The initiative provides detailed accounts of the performance of Public Financial Management (PFM) along various dimensions.
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    Governance assessments and domestic accountability: feeding domestic debate and changing aid practices

    Fride, 2009
    This paper follows on from recently completed research that investigated the impact of donor harmonisation on domestic processes of democratisation. The aim of this research is to further inform donors on how they can operationally redirect their day to day work, if the rhetoric of both partnership and domestic accountability is to be taken seriously.
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    Demand-driven governance: an analysis of the interventions of international aid agencies

    Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, 2009
    This working paper reviews demand-driven governance as a set of principles which have characterised aid and development interventions in certain post-conflict contexts, using Nepal as a case study. 
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    A new phase in postwar reconstruction

    Tiri, 2009
    In nations emerging from war, the immediate postwar period rarely lives up to the hopes and expectations of the country’s citizens or the international community. An upsurge in corruption and a lack of accountability, which frequently become entrenched during this time, can erode trust in democracy and its institutions, thereby eating away at the legitimacy of the postwar state.
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    Tiri

    Tiri is an independent non-governmental organisation that works with governments, business and civil society in an attempt to find practical solutions to making integrity work.
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    Governance considerations: donors’ use of the World Bank’s Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) tool

    International Cooperation for Development and Solidarity, 2009
    This paper analyses the use of the World Bank’s Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) rankings by bilateral and multilateral donors in their aid allocation and other related decision-making processes. This specific interest is embedded in the more general question of which role governance criteria plays in donors’ aid allocation processes.
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    Towards good humanitarian government: the role of the affected state in disaster response

    Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2009
    This brief asserts that research relating to humanitarian crises has largely focused on what international aid agencies and donor governments do in response to disasters. Much less attention has been given to, the author states, analysis of the role of the affected state in responding to the needs of its own
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    Yemen: fear of failure

    Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2008
    Yemen is the poorest nation in the Arab world, its location means it acts as a buffer zone between the Horn of Africa and Saudi Arabia and its president’s thirty year reign has been recently been struggling with a deteriorating security situation.
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    Democratic ownership and mutual accountability

    Fride, 2008
    This activity brief contains presentations by three development experts on the power relations between donors and recipients of aid and the repercussions of such relations on domestic politics in southern countries.
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    Analysing and addressing governance in sector operations

    EuropeAid Co-operation Office, 2008
    Ensuring sustainable results with sector aid and sector programmes can be a challenge as a result of governance constraints within the sector. The importance of addressing governance weaknesses at sector level is increasingly recognized as a precondition for attaining results and achieving sustainable development.

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