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    Gender- and conflict-sensitive program management

    Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2004
    The Conflict Prevention and Transformation division of the Swiss Development Agency has launched a process called Conflict Sensitive Programme Management. (CSPM) This is meant to help SDC programmes to contribute more consciously and effectively towards non-violent conflict resolution and peacebuilding.
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    Foreign aid: resurgent new spirit or old hangover?

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004
    This paper explores the future prospects of development aid. In order to do so, the paper first looks at the decline of aid in the 1990’s, and the sudden increase in development aid that can be noticed in the last few years.
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    The young face of NEPAD: children and young people in the New Partnership for Africa's Development

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2004
    This paper suggests that the aspirations of NEPAD's initiators, partners and stakeholders for progress, peace and poverty-reducing growth should find their foundation in Africa's human capacity development, which in turn must start with Africa's children.
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    Aid and conflict: the policy coherence challenge

    WIDER Conference on Making Peace Work, 2004
    This paper explores the security dimensions of policy coherence for development (PCD) work, arguing that the future of aid lies in the intersection between security and development. Illustrating the interlinkages between security and development, the paper reports that there is growing evidence of a two-way causality.
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    The politics of poverty: aid in the new cold war

    Christian Aid, 2004
    This report sets out mistakes that have been made in the past in relation to the politicisation of aid. Based on case studies in Afghanistan and Uganda, it also shows how they are being repeated. The authors argue that the growing politicisation of aid threatens to obscure the goal of poverty reduction.
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    An assessment of the effects of Norwegian development assistance on poverty reduction and conflict prevention

    Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway, 2001
    This study assesses the impact of Norwegian aid assistance. Recent research into aid effectiveness has shown that aid is most effective in poverty reduction when it is targeted to countries that are very poor and (among those countries) when it is focused on those that have made substantial progress reforming economic institutions and policies.
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    Promoting democratic governance and preventing the recurrence of conflict: the role of the United Nations Development Programme inpost conflict peace-building

    Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, USA, 2001
    This paper assesses the scope and significance of the new development agenda endorsed by UNDP and attempts to gauge the promises and dilemmas of its efforts to consolidate peace by promoting democracy and strengthening good governance, focusing on the experiences of Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala.The paper first scrutinises the emergence of democracy and good governance in the agenda of t
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    Aid, conditionality and debt in Africa

    Department of Economics [Cornell University], 2000
    This paper presents a diagnosis of the current dysfunctionalities of the aid, conditionality and debt regime in Africa. It is argued that the key feature of the current system is that of aid dependence, which is characterized as an unhealthy process of interaction which afflicts donors and recipients alike.

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