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Poverty reduction outcomes in education and health: public expenditure and aid
Overseas Development Institute, 2003This paper looks at the role of public expenditure programmes in the health and education sectors and their impact on poverty. It argues for a closer donor involvement at the sector level.The evidence reviewed shows that progress towards the MDGs has slowed in some low income countries, notably in Sub-Saharan Africa.DocumentFrom aid to partnership: a joint review of Norwegian - South African development cooperation 1995-2001
Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2003The study provides an overview and an assessment of the Norwegian development assistance to South Africa since the first democratic elections in 1994.The report finds that nearly one billion Norwegian kroner were disbursed from Norway to South Africa during the first seven years.DocumentSustaining local level development: what worked and what did not: lessons from the phasing-out of Norwegian aid to the Hambantota Integrated Rural Development Programme (HIRDEP), Sri Lanka 1992-1999
Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2003This paper examines what happens when funding for a project reaches its phase-out stage and the project must stand alone. It summarises the main experiences and lessons from twenty years of the Hambantota Integrated Rural Development Programme (HIRDEP), with a focus on the last phase from 1992 to 1999.Findings include:the phasing-out did not go as initially planned.DocumentNORAD 2000: the country approach
Center for International Forestry Research, 2000This paper describes how a Norwegian country strategy process dovetails with a partner country’s development strategy and what factors affect the formulation of a Norwegian development cooperation strategy.The following points can be regarded as a checklist of issues that ought to be discussed and clarified in the course of a country strategy process:level of ambition and terms of referDocumentNutritional considerations in Norwegian development cooperation
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2000The purpose of the assignment is to develop a resource document which:explains why the food and nutrition component has a natural place in development cooperation aimed at poverty reduction and human developmentprovides updated information concerning events and operating parameters for such cooperationprovides suggestions for how nutrition may be incorporated into NORAD’s activitieDocumentPoverty: bridging the gap
Department for International Development, UK, 2001These guidance notes discuss how the principle of poverty elimination can be put into practice.DocumentTargeting poverty through community-based public works programs: a cross-disciplinary assessment of recent experience in South Africa
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2001This paper examines the performance of seven programs in Western Cape Province at involving community participation and at targeting the poor and women.DocumentPublic opinion research, global education and development cooperation reform: in search of a virtuous circle
OECD Development Centre, 2002This report compiles public attitudes to international development co-operation.DocumentDo area development projects have a future?
Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2003This paper argues that ADPs have considerable potential to inform PRS and similar processes within this ‘new architecture’ of aid.Increased donor attention to Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) processes and to budgetary support have meant reduced funding for Area Development Projects (ADPs). Does this trend risk throwing the baby out with the bathwater?DocumentRanking the rich: the first annual CGD/FP commitment to development index
Center for Global Development, USA, 2003Foreign Policy and the Center for Global Development have developed a new ranking system that grades the efforts of the 21 richest nations to assist the development of poorer nations.Pages
