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  Standards put to the test: implementing the INEE Minimum Standards for Education in Emergencies, Chronic Crisis and Early Reconstruction

  Humanitarian Practice Network, ODI, 2006

  This paper identifies lessons from the early experiences of using the INEE Minimum Standards for Education in Emergencies, Chronic Crises and Early Reconstruction Minimum Standards.It first presents the case for education as an essential humanitarian activity, and describes the rationale for the Minimum Standards.
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  Turning around fragile states

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007

  Donor interest in fragile states has increased recently, partly due to the belief that extreme poverty, economic decline and violent conflict are linked to the rise in global terrorism. But donors need to understand better the factors that affect development in these countries if aid is to be more effective.
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  Learning from experience? a review of recipient-government efforts to manage donor relations and improve the quality of aid

  Overseas Development Institute, 2006

  This paper reviews the efforts of five countries seen as relatively successful examples of recipient-led aid policies and donor management.
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  Agricultural recovery from disasters – the importance of seed-based support

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Ensuring farmers have seed is an essential part of emergency aid strategies in Africa. But how effective are these strategies, and who benefits from them?
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  A new agenda to eradicate poverty in Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Over 75 million more Africans lived in poverty at the end of the 1990s than a decade earlier. Increasing aid and reforming trade through international campaigns and donor programmes is not working. The role of the state must be changed if poverty in Africa is to be reduced.
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  The role of external debt in current account sustainability in Uganda 1993/94 – 2004/05

  UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2005

  This paper assess the sustainability of Uganda’s external debt and current account position with a view to deriving general policy implications for other African countries at a similar level of development.The author outlines a number of policies to enhance current account and external debt sustainability in Africa.
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  Evaluation of general budget support: synthesis report

  DAC Network on Development Evaluation, 2006

  OECD donor countries now channel about US$ 5 billion (some 5 per cent of their aid) directly to the budgets of developing country governments.This report reflects findings from an evaluation conducted by the OECD DAC to assess to what extent, and under what circumstances, General Budget Support (GBS) is relevant, efficient and effective for achieving sustainable impacts on poverty reduction and g
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  Aid does raise economic growth in Africa – indirectly

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Despite receiving large amounts of aid, sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has a poor economic growth record. This has led some observers to conclude that aid to Africa has been ineffective. But this is not the case. Aid has contributed to growth in Africa, mainly by financing investment, which in turn contributes to growth.
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  Conducting conflict assessments: guidance notes

  Department for International Development, UK, 2006

  This booklet offers DFID staff and partner agencies’ staff guidance notes for analysing conflicts, assessing the effects of aid on conflicts, and developing conflict sensitive policies and programmes.Based on DFID experience in conflict assessment, the authors offer a three step strategy to assessing the impacts of conflict on development programming and the impact of development programming on
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  Educating the world’s children: patterns of growth and inequality

  Academy for Educational Development, USA, 2005

  This study employs multiple sources of data and innovative analytic tools to project when 70 poor countries, given current and historical trends, are likely to achieve the goal of universal primary education.

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