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    Building back better: post-earthquake responses and educational challenges in Pakistan

    International Institute for Educational Planning, UNESCO, 2008
    A powerful earthquake struck the northern areas of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan on 8 October, 2005. The timing of the quake and the low quality of school construction were factors in its major impact on the education sector.
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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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    Official development assistance and the war against poverty

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2008
    With reference to the Monterrey Consensus for Development and the Paris Declaration for aid effectiveness, this policy brief reviews the current state of official development assistance and the ‘war against poverty’.
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    A Paris declaration for international NGOs?

    OECD Development Centre, 2008
    INGOs receive large shares of Overseas Development Aid and, added to their private funding, the largest among them now control budgets that surpass those of official donors. Greater attention is needed to how they apply principles of aid effectiveness to their own activities.
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    En route to Accra: The global development-finance non-system

    OECD Development Centre, 2008
    This Policy Insight provides an alternative perspective on the new international aid architecture, or "non-system". The author argues that the solution must come from outside this architecture.
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    Home-owned and home-grown: development policies that can work

    OECD Development Centre, 2008
    According to this Policy Insight, to put the "ownership" principle of aid effectiveness into practice, developing-country governments need to attack the barriers to local knowledge production and enforce local legal frameworks for participation of civil society. Donor agencies should review their use of conditionality: policy conditions don't work.
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    A farewell to policy conditionality?

    OECD Development Centre, 2008
    This Policy Insight examines policy conditionality in the context of international discussions on aid effectiveness. It explains why policy conditionality has failed to bring about meaningful change and argues that aid donors and recipient should explore alternatives for more effective aid.
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    From Paris to Accra: building the global governance of aid

    Fride, 2008
    The Third High-Level Forum on Aid effectiveness has commenced. The Accra conference will seek to build on the ‘achievements’ of the Paris Declaration (PD) of 2005 and evaluate its impact. There is indeed much to discuss in Ghana with consternation that the PD’s high technical standards for aid effectiveness have been ‘politicised’.
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    When disaster strikes: a guide to assessing seed system security

    Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2008
    Intervening in seed systems is serious business. Seed systems are at the heart of agricultural production and determines what farmers grow and whether they will have a harvest. Badly designed and poorly implemented seed aid during a crisis harms farmers, making them even more vulnerable to uncertainties.

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