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    Need and greed: corruption risks, perceptions and prevention in humanitarian assistance

    Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2008
    Emergency environments present unique corruption risks for agencies operating within them. Relief is delivered amidst weak or absent rule of law, endemic corruption and immense need. This short policy brief argues that the high level of needs of crisis-affected populations means that they can ill-afford corruption that compromises their access to assistance.
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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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    An integrated approach needed for the growing threat of climate-related insecurity

    UN, 2008
    Under an intensifying era of climate change, this policy briefaddresses the need for an integrated response to deal with the challenge of climate related insecurity.
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    Future scenarios as a tool for collaboration in forest communities

    Center for International Forestry Research, 2008
    This paper discusses how a participatory method to facilitate thinking about future scenarios can help change the way forest communities and local governments interact. It reviews a growing body of literature on future scenarios and shares first-hand experiences in forest communities in the northern Bolivian Amazon and the central provinces of Vietnam.
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    Parliamentary strengthening is important for promoting governance

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    A growing focus on governance in developing countries has led to renewed interest in the role of parliaments. How might the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) and other agencies contribute more effectively to parliamentary strengthening?
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    The role of decentralised renewable energy technologies in adaptation to climate change in developing countries.

    South Centre, 2008
    This paper analyses the positive impact of decentralised renewable energy technologies that enhance climate change adaptation capacity in developing countries facing increasing climate change-related hazards.
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    Legal challenges to unfair debt

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Many developing countries are burdened with huge foreign debts. Repayment, even if limited to paying interest, uses up scarce resources while large parts of the population live in poverty. Much developing country debt comprises morally and legally questionable loans taken by unconstitutional or illegitimate regimes. There may be a legal basis for refusing to repay such loans.
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    New thinking is needed to unlock Africa’s development traps

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Africa has stagnated for 40 years and now needs a ‘big push’ to escape from four mutually-reinforcing development ‘traps’ –  conflict, corruption, dependence on primary commodities and fractionalised societies. Aid alone cannot turn things round. Africa’s development prospects depends on security, good governance and trade preferences.
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    Can the sector-wide approach strengthen local development institutions?

    Royal Tropical Institute, 2007
    This paper explores the conditions in which the sector wide approach can strengthen local development institutions.It notes that the sector wide approach is now the preferred procedure for organising development assistance.The sector wide approach involves:
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    Aid, rents and the politics of the budget process

    Centre for the Future State, IDS, 2008
    With a focus on aid and resource-dependent countries, this paper analyses the impact of political institutions and budgetary procedures on budget governance. The analysis builds on indicators of party competition and democracy, good governance, budgetary processes and institutions, and aid and resource dependency.

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