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Reconsidering food aid: the dialogue continues
The Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa, 2007The Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa convened a workshop in May 2006 to generate a broader dialogue on the future of U.S. food aid. Participants could not reach agreement on four key areas.DocumentThe EU’s footprint in the South: Does European Community development cooperation make a difference for the poor?
International Cooperation for Development and Solidarity, 2007In 2005, following the worldwide call to Make Poverty History, European governments promised to increase the aid and debt relief to poor countries. But just how effective is EC aid in combating poverty? This paper evaluates EC aid effectiveness by drawing on evidence from six countries in the period 2002-2006.DocumentDo no harm: aid, weak institutions, and the missing middle in Africa
Center for Global Development, USA, 2007A robust middle-income group contributes critically to the creation and continuation of healthy institutions. Yet, many countries in Africa lack a sound middle class.DocumentThe Malawi social cash transfer scheme: preliminary lessons learned
United Nations Children's Fund, 2006Evidence from a pilot social cash transfer programme in Malawi indicates that it is a cost-effective, quick way to meet the basic needs of ultra-poor households whose members are unable to work.DocumentEngaging with fragile states: An IEG review of World Bank support to low-income countries under stress
World Bank, 2007Home to almost 500 million people, roughly half of whom earn less than a dollar a day, fragile states, until recently known in the World Bank as Low-Income Countries Under Stress (LICUS), have attracted increasing attention.DocumentThe 'refugee aid and development' approach in Uganda: empowerment and self-reliance of refugees in practice
United Nations [UN] High Commission for Refugees, 2006This paper takes a critical look at the United Nations High Commission for Refugee’s (UNHCR) 'refugee, aid and development' (RAD) approach in Uganda. The paper examines the disconnect between refugees’ experiences and perceptions of this programme and the 'official' discourse surrounding the self-reliance strategy (SRS).DocumentPutting donors under surveillance?: eurodad briefing on aid effectiveness
European Network on Debt and Development, 2007Civil society organisations have long highlighted the need for 'better' aid. This briefing explains the commitments and process in the official 'aid effectiveness agenda', which represents significant pledges to reform how aid money gets spent.The briefing reports that:in 2003, the total amount of aid provided by bilateral and multilateral donors was US$69 billion.DocumentThe crisis in african agriculture: a more effective role of EC Aid?
Practical Action [Intermediate Technology Development Group], 2005Agriculture remains key to achieving the poverty targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Africa. However, agricultural growth is dropping in sub-Saharan Africa, and development aid to the Southern African Development Community is following the same trend.DocumentDevelopment assistance and the Occupied Palestinian Territories
House of Commons International Development Committee, 2007This report provides an assessment of the economic, social and political situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT’s) since the International Development Committee last visited the issue in 2004.Pages