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    Managing aid dependency project, donor coordination and good governance.

    Global Economic Governance Programme, University College Oxford, 2006
    Donor coordination, and its more formal expression in the 'Harmonisation and Alignment' agenda, has been the focus of increasing attention in aid debates.
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    DFID: aid, education and conflict-affected countries

    Save the Children Fund, 2006
    How does the UK Department for International Development’s (DFID) support to education in conflict-affected fragile states (CAFS) compare to their support to education in other developing countries?
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    Rewrite the future: education for children in conflict-affected countries

    Save the Children Fund, 2006
    Inclusive, good quality education can be a positive force for peace and contribute to the prevention of further conflict. Yet education – its provision and its quality – is neglected in humanitarian responses to conflict.
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    U.S. foreign aid reform: will it fix what is broken?

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2006
    This essay discusses how the George W Bush Administration’s foreign aid reform plan is motivated by a laudable goal: introducing greater strategic coherence into the fragmented and dysfunctional U.S. foreign aid regime.
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    The limits of statebuilding: the role of international assistance in Afghanistan

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2006
    Afghanistan, following years of political turmoil, has been undergoing a massive reconstruction effort since US intervention in 2001. The focus of the development agenda was, as with other cases, on state building. Establishing an effective, transparent central state was considered key to the country's long-term development.
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    The costs of government ‘owned’ aid in Mozambique

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Mozambique is one of the poorest countries and the largest recipients of foreign aid in Africa. It is also being seen as a successful example where aid had been harmonised, mostly through sector wide approaches and direct budget support. Reduced costs and increased government control are the aims of aid harmonisation.
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    Education in fragile states: capturing lessons and identifying good practice

    Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies, 2006
    The OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) categorises fragile states as follows:deterioration (conflict/risk of conflict; declining capacity and/or will)arrested development (lack of will; moderate or high capacity)post-conflict transition (risk of conflict; low capacity; high or low will)early recovery (may be post-conflict or not; high will but low capacity).Thi
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    DFID White Paper: eliminating world poverty: making governance work for the poor

    Department for International Development, UK, 2006
    The White Paper on International Development sets out what the UK Government will do to reduce world poverty over the next five years.
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    Lifting the veil of silence on corruption and humanitarian aid

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Humanitarian relief is worth around US$10 billion annually. Complex logistics of aid delivery provide scope for mismanagement, diversion and corruption at each level of the relief chain. Agencies can submit fraudulent accounts to donors, supplies can disappear and vulnerable recipients of aid may be asked for bribes or sexual favours.
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    Challenging conditions: a new strategy for reform at the World Bank and IMF

    Christian Aid, 2006
    This report argues that conditions attached to aid and loans from the IMF and World Bank are unacceptable. It calls for the UK government to reinforce its own commitment to end such conditionalities through a moritorium on its voluntary contributions to the IMF and World Bank.

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