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    Canada: Development Assistance Committee peer review

    Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 2007
    The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development undertakes regular peer reviews on the practices of member countries' development policies and practices. This report discusses the strengths and weaknesses of Canada’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) and makes recommendations for improvement.
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    Accountability and policy dialogue

    African Forum and Network on Debt and Development, 2007
    Accountability is a buzzword in contemporary development discourse and is a key component to the Paris Declaration on aid effectiveness. Accountability has become central to development policy for various development actors, including national governments, corporations, or civil society.
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    Following the funding for HIV/AIDS: a comparative analysis of the funding practices of PEPFAR, the Global Fund and World Bank MAP in Mozambique, Uganda and Zambia

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2007
    Donor funding for HIV/AIDS has skyrocketed in the last decade: from US$ 300 million in 1996 to US$ 8.9 billion in 2006; yet, little is understood about how these resources are being spent. This paper analyses the policies and practices of the world’s largest AIDS donors as they are applied in Mozambique, Uganda and Zambia.
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    Unintended consequences: does aid promote arms races?

    Blackwell Synergy, 2007
    Military expenditure consumes a large part of government spending in developing countries and represents forgone spending on social development. The paper explores both the revealed motivation for military spending in developing countries and its effectiveness in deterring internal conflict.
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    CSO Parallel Process to the Ghana High Level Forum Network

    The CSO Parallel Process to the Ghana High Level Forum network brings together various local, national, regional and international NGOs who are engaged in development issues, particularly the aid a
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    From Paris 2005 to Accra 2008: will aid become more accountable and effective?: a critical approach to the aid effectiveness agenda

    CSO Parallel Process to the Ghana High Level Forum Network, 2007
    Civil society organisations (CSOs) continue to lobby for effective implementaiton of the Paris Declaration (PD) on aid effectiveness. This policy paper outlines some of the key CSO critiques and concerns about the Paris agenda, as well as some specific recommendations for the High Level Forum (HLF) to be held in Accra in 2008.
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    Ownership in practice (Paris, 27-28 September 2007)

    OECD Development Centre, 2007
    Experts agree that a development finance system must be owned by developing countries in order to reduce poverty and achieve sustained economic growth. Ahead of the 2008 High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra (Ghana), the OECD’s Global Forum on Development invited experts from South and North to an informal workshop to share their views on developing-country ownership.
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    Multi-donor support to civil society and engaging with ‘non-traditional’ civil society: a light-touch review of DFID’s portfolio

    Forum on the Future of Aid, 2007
    Civil society organizations (CSOs) are continually supported by multilateral and bilateral donor organisations in order to enhance local political accountability, yet  there remains a lack of systematic analysis around different approaches to providing this support.
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    Annual report 2007 on the European Community’s development policy and the implementation of external assistance in 2006

    European Union, 2007
    The European Union is the world's major source of development aid, providing € 46.9 billion (56.67%) of total official development assistance (ODA) to 160 countries. This overview presents the main features of recent changes to EU aid policy and progress that has been made thus far. The report identifies and discusses five main areas of change in EU aid policy: 
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    Donor support to political parties: status and principles

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2007
    With financing of political parties a recurrent problem in many developing and transitional countries, donors are increasingly rendering support to political parties - almost always in indirect ways. This paper outlines the modalities, principles and practices of donor support to political parties.

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