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    Primer on development and aid effectiveness

    IBON International, 2007
    This paper is a guide for Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) which addresses the aid effectiveness agenda, within the broader context of development. Firstly, many of the basic/key development and aid issues are introduced, such as:
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    Macro aid effectiveness research: a guide for the perplexed

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2007
    This paper reviews recent studies that analyse how much foreign aid affects country-level outcomes – such as economic growth and school attendance rates. The report seeks to provide a jargon-free, clear analysis on whether aid is effective or not.
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    Capacity development and aid effectiveness

    United Nations Development Programme, 2006
    This UNDP paper seeks to address key policy issues and instruments to improve the effectiveness of development aid. These issues include new aid architecture and the role of the UN systems; new aid modalities including Sector Wide Approaches and joint assistance mechanisms; and aid management for transparency and accountability.
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    Reforming the international aid architecture: options and ways forward

    Overseas Development Institute, 2006
    This Overseas Development Institute working paper describes the characteristics and constraints of the current international aid architecture. It also summarises the perceptions in developing countries of the strengths and weaknesses of key bilateral and multilateral aid agencies. The paper presents five options for reform of the international aid architecture.
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    Aid architecture: an overview of the main trends in official development assistance flows

    International Development Association, 2007
    This paper by the International Development Association reviews the broad trends in Official Development Assistance (ODA) flows; the growing complexity of the existing global aid architecture; and the prospects and challenges facing the donor community. It finds that the recent upward trend in ODA volumes has been accompanied by an increase in the amount of aid delivered through grants.
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    Post-conflict recovery: resource mobilization and peacebuilding

    Political Economy Research Institute, 2008
    In war-torn societies aid can play an important and constructive role in building a durable peace. However, are positive outcomes the automatic result of good intentions? Furthermore, are donors motivated entirely by the objective of peacebuilding?
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    Old habits die hard: aid and accountability in Sierra Leone

    European Network on Debt and Development, 2008
    This paper seeks to demonstrate how slow progress has been in improving aid effectiveness in Sierra Leone.
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    Inter-regional multi-stakeholder dialogue on aid effectiveness

    Reality of Aid, 2008
    This paper presents an overview of the inter-regional consultation on aid effectiveness and the Paris Declaration (PD) held in Lusaka, Zambia. The workshop was convened to discuss progress on aid effectiveness in the region and recommendations for improving the PD – in preparation for the forthcoming high-level meeting in Ghana.
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    OECD Journal on development: development co-operation report 2007

    OECD Development Co-operation Directorate: DAC Guidelines, 2008
    This paper from the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) – of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) – presents a range of comprehensive statistics on development co-operation over the past year and provides analysis of the ‘aid data’.
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    Evaluating the impact of Brazil’s Bolsa Família: Cash transfer programmes in comparative perspective

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007
    Created in 2004, Brazil's Bolsa Familia programme consists of monthly cash transfers to poor households with children or pregnant women and unconditional transfers to extremely poor households. This paper examines how successfully and efficiently Bolsa Familia eases poverty and breaks its intergenerational transmission.

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