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    Emissions trading, carbon financing and indigenous peoples

    Institute of Advanced Studies. United Nations University,, 2008
    Greenhouse gas abatement activities can have both beneficial and detrimental impacts on the communities in which they operate. For this reason, it is vital that Indigenous communities have accurate information about carbon financing and carbon market processes at the outset – to help them make informed decisions and choices about activities that work for them.
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    Organisational change in the humanitarian sector

    Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action, 2008
    How do organisations change how they work? This chapter addresses the topic of change in humanitarian organisations. Drawing on the findings of a literature review and group interviews the authors question the efficacy of some of our traditional approaches to change.
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    Changing IMF Policies

    IFIwatchnet, 2008
    This paper highlights the shortage of doctors, nurses and teachers hired in developing countries. It critically addresses current International Monetary Fund (IMF) policies with a focus on the need to change its practices in order to improve the situation.
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    Capacity development and aid effectiveness

    United Nations Development Programme, 2006
    This UNDP paper seeks to address key policy issues and instruments to improve the effectiveness of development aid. These issues include new aid architecture and the role of the UN systems; new aid modalities including Sector Wide Approaches and joint assistance mechanisms; and aid management for transparency and accountability.
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    How soon can donors exit from post-conflict states?

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2008
    This paper evaluates and estimates the time and dollar costs of post-conflict rebuilding. Utilising four post-conflict states – Liberia, Mozambique, Solomon Islands, and Timor-Leste – as case studies, it argues that it will be decades, possibly generations, before post-conflict states are ready to see donors leave.
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    Joint evaluation study of provision of technical assistance personnel: what can we learn from promising experiences?: synthesis report on the study on promising approaches to technical assistance

    European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2007
    Technical assistance (TA) remains a controversial component of official development assistance (ODA). This study aims to contribute to the current discussions on aid effectiveness and capacity development by assessing what works in relation to the deployment of technical assistance (TA) personnel, and exploring what initiatives/reforms are being taken to improve practice.
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    Emergency capacity building pilot projects: promising practices for risk reduction

    Inter-agency Working Group on Emergency Capacity, 2007
    Disaster risk reduction (DRR) has emerged as an important agenda item in the development community. This report identifies models and promising practices for disaster risk reduction based on experiences in the three pilot countries: Ethiopia, Guatemala and Indonesia.
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    Accountability and policy dialogue

    African Forum and Network on Debt and Development, 2007
    Accountability is a buzzword in contemporary development discourse and is a key component to the Paris Declaration on aid effectiveness. Accountability has become central to development policy for various development actors, including national governments, corporations, or civil society.
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    Multi-donor support to civil society and engaging with ‘non-traditional’ civil society: a light-touch review of DFID’s portfolio

    Forum on the Future of Aid, 2007
    Civil society organizations (CSOs) are continually supported by multilateral and bilateral donor organisations in order to enhance local political accountability, yet  there remains a lack of systematic analysis around different approaches to providing this support.
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    Developmental states in the new millennium: concepts and challenges for a new aid agenda

    Development Policy Review, 2007
    The developmental state is back at the centre of the international policy debate, yet policy-makers still have much to learn from the large research-based literature on the subject. This article, which introduces a special theme-based edition of Development Policy Review, discusses some of the concepts and challenges surrounding the developmental state and its incorporation in the aid agenda.

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