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  UN Country Coordination: building greater coherence for capacity development: synthesis of resident coordinator annual reports

  United Nations Development Group, 2007

  This report synthesises the work of the United Nations development programmes and the steps the United Nations Country Teams (UNCTs) are taking to “deliver as one”. The report consists of six chapters, each dedicated to a key area of joint UN country team action.
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  Follow the money: a review and analysis of the state of humanitarian funding

  Feinstein International Center, USA, 2007

  This briefing paper describes the present state of humanitarian funding, focusing on the global picture, key trends and recognised shortcomings. The brief includes discussion of new financing mechanisms, such as the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) and Common Humanitarian Funds.Key findings include:
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  Budget support to Ghana: a risk worth taking?

  Overseas Development Institute, 2007

  This policy brief presents a case study of general budget support (GBS) in Ghana. It is argued that, by providing aid as budget support, donors have taken risks and made important contributions to poverty alleviation and governance.
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  Good humanitarian donorship: overcoming obstacles to improved collective donor performance

  Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2007

  Good Humanitarian Donorship (GHD) was initiated in 2003 by a group of donors as a set of objectives, definitions and general principles for humanitarian action. However, progress on implementation of GHD has so far been piecemeal and limited by a number of obstacles.
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  Portfolio screening to support the mainstreaming of adaptation to climate change in development assistance

  Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, 2007

  Over six development agencies are screening their portfolios with the aim of ascertaining the extent to which exisiting development projects already consider climate risks or address vulnerability to climate variability; and identifying opportunities for incorporating climate change explicitly into future projects.This paper assesses this screening process in order to dentify opportunites for d
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  Report on the regional workshop on harmonization and alignment for Latin America and the Caribbean: exercising leadership to accelerate change

  OECD Development Centre, 2006

  This document reports on a 2006 workshop held in Santa Cruz to discuss the implementation of the Paris Declaration commitments on harmonisation and alignment in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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  Coherence for development: economic recommendations for Spain

  Real Instituto Elcano de Estudios Internacionales y Estrategicos, Madrid, 2006

  This paper looks at the coherence of donors’ economic policies with the objectives of the official international development cooperation policy.It outlines the potential benefits – and the conditions required to realise those benefits – and risks associated with the following policy areas:tradeemigrant remittancesforeign direct investment (FDI)external debt, restructuring an
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  Using ODA to promote private investment for development: policy guidance for donors

  Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 2006

  This report provides guidance to members of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) on using ODA more effectively to mobilise private investment for development (investment-enhancing ODA).
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  Harmonisation, alignment, results progress report on aid effectiveness

  OECD Development Centre, 2005

  This report looks at the issue of aid effectiveness as it is affected by harmonisation, alignment, and managing for results.
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  Sector wide approaches: opportunities and challenges for gender equity in health

  Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, 2002

  This resource book, which is composed of papers presented at the Women’s World Conference in 2002, explores the challenges that new Sector Wide Approaches (SWAPs) pose to health sector development.

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