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Providing development aid to Africa : comparing South Africa with China, India and Brazil
South African Foreign Policy Initiative, 2013South Africa’s planned development aid agency, South African Development Partnership Agency, is expected to be established in 2013. This provides a good opportunity to assess South Africas current role as provider of development aid to other African countries.DocumentNutrition interventions for older people in emergencies
HelpAge International, 2013In emergency situations, older people may find it hard to access food. For example, when they are displaced, older people may face difficulties in registering for the general food rations, meet challenges in accessing food distributions and difficulties transporting the food.DocumentDecentralising the management of bilateral development cooperation programmes in Tanzania: a Finnish example
Eldis Document Store, 2011What is the potential of the decentralisation of bilateral development cooperation programmes as an aid to improving their performance in regard to poverty reduction?DocumentPredicting the cost and impact of cash transfer programmes: the power of microsimulation tools
Oxford Policy Management, 2013Cash transfers to households are becoming an increasingly common policy instrument for reducing poverty, particularly in some countries of sub-Saharan Africa. However pilot schemes are not always modelled at their design stage to estimate whether the cash transfers would have an affordable impact on poverty if scaled up.DocumentCan the UN adjust to the changing funding landscape?
The Future United Nations Development System, 2013Private sources of financing have become a growing feature of UN budgets. This report argues that an evaluation of the private financing of UNDP activities reveals both advantages - increased resources, more technical expertise, better management - and challenges such distorted priorities, unhealthy competition, weakened multilateralism.DocumentIncreasing the effectiveness of Aid for Trade: the circumstances under which it works best
Overseas Development Institute, 2012Aid for Trade has emerged as an important vehicle for assisting developing countries to improve their trade capacity and to benefit from the expansion of global markets. But any optimism on the volume of Aid for Trade flows is punctuated by the ongoing global economic crisis, which is likely to have important implications for trade and development.DocumentFocusing on what matters in Aid for Trade
Overseas Development Institute, 2013Aid for Trade (AfT) has emerged as an important vehicle to help the private sector in developing countries to improve its trade capacity and to benefit from the expansion of global markets, which would allow for economic growth and job creation, and help developing countries to move from reliance on aid to the use of trade to generate higher standards of living.DocumentParliamentary engagement development with the Millennium Goals
2010This manual outlines mechanisms that can be used in parliaments to improve engagement around the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It highlights examples of best practice in making MDGs a central part of Parliamentary work, and provides practical advice on how to effectively implement some legislative mechanisms to utilise the MDGs in Parliaments.DocumentWorking differently in fragile and conflict-affected situations: the ADB experience
Asian Development Bank, 2012One in every four of the world’s people lives in fragile and conflicted settings. This handbook is an Asian-based attempt to encourage new thinking and mainstreaming of innovative engagement in fragile situations.The paper highlights that:OrganisationDevelopment bank of Latin America
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