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Harmonisation, alignment, results progress report on aid effectiveness
OECD Development Centre, 2005This report looks at the issue of aid effectiveness as it is affected by harmonisation, alignment, and managing for results.DocumentGlobal monitoring report, 2006:Millennium Development Goals: strengthening mutual accountability, aid,trade, and governance
World Bank, 2006This report comments on global progress towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), focusing on aid, trade and financial dimensions of the process. It notes that, despite commitments to raising aid effectiveness from the G8 and the Paris Declaration, the world is still far from achieving the MDGs - particularly Africa and South Asia.DocumentDoes foreign aid reduce poverty?: empirical evidence from nongovernmental and bilateral aid
International Monetary Fund, 2005This document assesses the effectiveness of foreign aid in reducing poverty through its impact on human development indicators. The authors use a dataset of both bilateral aid and NGO aid flows.The results show that NGO aid significantly reduces infant mortality while bilateral aid does not.DocumentReducing the risk of disasters: helping to achieve sustainable poverty reduction in a vulnerable world
Department for International Development, UK, 2006This paper summarises the British Department for International Development's (DFID's) policy on disaster risk reduction as it applies to natural and technological disasters. It sets out the key elements of disaster risk reduction and why it is important. The paper’s aim is to provide guidance to DFID staff.DocumentGovernance, development and aid effectiveness: a quick guide to complex relationships
Overseas Development Institute, 2006This short guide to governance development and aid effectiveness considers the relationship which has risen up in the international policy arena. The document considers the definitions of good governance and the varying models used by different countries.DocumentWhich way the future of aid?: southern civil society perspectives on current debates on reform to the international aid system
Overseas Development Institute, 2006Drawing on comments made by southern civil society organisations (CSO) representatives involved in the project, this working paper aims to provide an analysis of the forces shaping the structure and operations of the international aid system.DocumentVolatility of development aid: from the frying pan into the fire?
International Monetary Fund, 2006This paper argues that, despite the introduction in 1999 of various initiatives anchored in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs), aimed at strengthening coordination among donors, improving the design of financial support programmes, and improving domestic records of policy, aid flows are still erratic, and long-term commitments more unpredictable as ever.DocumentNew ideas for development financing
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2005Goal Eight of the Millennium Development Goals requires all countries to enter a global partnership for development to implement the MDGs. This partnership includes the provision of adequate resources in support of the developing countries’ own efforts.DocumentImplementation of the commission for Africa recommendations and G8 Gleneagles commitments on poverty
Department for International Development, UK, 2006This report provides an overview of progress against the recommendations made by the Commission for Africa (CfA) and related G8 commitments.Document2005 review of the poverty reduction strategy approach: balancing accountabilities and scaling up results
International Monetary Fund, 2005The PRS (poverty reduction strategy) approach has become widespread over the last five years. This paper presents a review of the PRS approach in the form of an extensive discussion of implementation experience up until 2005.Pages