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    Corruption in emergencies: what role for media?

    U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2006
    This document brings together the deliberations of a meeting of donors, NGOs and journalists from Sri Lanka, Liberia and Nepal on the role of the media in tackling corruption in humanitarian aid programmes. It draws on various case studies and suggests ways in which humanitarian agencies and the media can mutually support responsible coverage of corruption in emergency aid.
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    Peru: the kingdom of the NGO?

    Fride, 2008
    The Paris Declaration (PD) was long overdue. The predominance of conditionality in the aid environment has been harmful in its impeding of internal state building; its insistence on specific economic programming and its forceful accountability of those in public office.
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    What are the best ways to lead anti-democratic states to development?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    In many states in sub-Saharan Africa, governments are anti-democratic and obstruct development. These states are not dysfunctional, as donors often believe. They simply function according to a different logic: continuing in power is more important to leaders than developing their nations.
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    Local ownership underpins success of security sector reforms

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Security sector reforms in any country must be designed, managed and implemented by local people if they are to succeed. But while it is fashionable for policy statements to declare the importance of ‘local ownership’, the concept has proven difficult to apply, with donor governments guilty of frequent breaches.
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    China in Africa: lending, policy space and governance

    Norwegian Council for Africa, 2008
    China has had bad press regarding its involvement in sub-Saharan Africa. Its lack of aid conditionality – particularly in the field of human rights and environmental issues; its apparent disregard for transparency in the loan contraction processes and its general lack of adherence to international standards in responsible funding has caused alarm in the donor community.
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    Linking budget analysis with aid advocacy: how civil society groups can monitor donor budget support

    Affiliated Network for Social Accountability, 2007
    Governments have changed how aid is delivered - away from project-based funding towards direct budget support to donor countries. This report argues that this is preferable as it mitigates the time and resources spent on aid recipients reporting to donors’ demands, whilst encouraging administrations to develop efficient, accountable governance.
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    The Nicaragua challenge: upholding the Paris agenda in an agitated setting

    Fride, 2008
    Using the example of Nicaragua, this case study explores the application of the Paris declaration on harmonisation, alignment and managing aid for results. Once favoured by donors, Nicaragua has opted for firm governmental ownership and a hard line on what is perceivedby the new Sandinista government as European interference.
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    Accountability in poverty reduction strategies: the role of empowerment and participation

    Social Development, World Bank, 2007
    This paper is part of a research project analysing the participation of stakeholders beyond the drafting process of Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRS). A number of constraints impede meaningful participation in many countries. However, exceptions demonstrate that meaningful participation in PRS processes is possible.
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    Political incumbency and drought relief in Africa

    Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2008
    This paper examines the reasoning behind some African governments' selection of policies of universal food relief, when others adopt food or cash-for-work programmes in times of drought. It examines the key factors that shape policy selection by political leaderships.
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    Voice for accountability: citizens, the state and realistic governance

    Overseas Development Institute, 2007
    The relationship between voice and accountability is central to the debate on how good governance can be operationalised in practice. Linking ‘voice’ and ‘accountability’ can only be meaningful when citizens have the knowledge and power to make demands, and those in positions of power have the capacity and will to respond.

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