» The Impact of Global Crises, Trade Finance and Aid on Export Flows: A Developing Country Perspective
16/11/11 19:04 from Delicious/euforic/aid_effectiveness: aid effectiveness
"In this paper, we use a mixed-effects trade gravity model on a sample of 83 developing countries over the period 1990-2007 to assess the impact of trade finance and foreign aid on bilateral export flows. In addition to traditional varia...

» Scaling up what works: managing risks in fragile states
24/10/11 23:08 from Delicious/euforic/aid_effectiveness: aid effectiveness
"Since the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra in 2008, there has been a growing awareness amongst the international community that low-income countries with fragile institutions are not simply more difficult cases of de...

» Aid effectiveness: bringing country ownership (and politics) back in
13/09/11 20:31 from Delicious/euforic/aid_effectiveness: aid effectiveness
"The 2005 Paris Declaration grew out of a consensus on the importance of ‘country ownership’ to the success of development efforts. In other words, it came to be recognised that the effectiveness of aid depends critically on whether or n...

» International Development - Bill Morton: Partnerships Key to Aid Effectiveness
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» 70.7 million € less for EU development aid in 2012. 29 April 2011. CTA.
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» For Ivory Coast’s Recovery, AFD Pledges More Than $500M. 18 April 2011. Devex.
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» Netherlands calls for more effectiveness in EU aid projects. 29 April 2011. CTA.
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» EDC 2020 - Final Event - Europe's role
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» EDC2020 event: Post Lisbon: How to achieve coherence between energy security and development policies
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» Mitchell: Aid agencies to focus on value for money. DFID. 23 December 2010.
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» Ethiopia: the Aid-Politics Trap. Human Rights Watch. 23 November 2010.
21/12/10 13:48 from Delicious/euforic/aid_effectiveness: aid effectiveness
Ethiopia is the largest recipient of western development assistance in Africa. In 2005-08, aid to Ethiopia more than doubled - from $1.9 billion to $3.4 billion. Yet the country's domestic politics are becoming less democratic and more r...

» Aid Effectiveness Conference: Africa’s Future Lies in Self-Reliance. African Development Bank. 11 November 2010.
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Distinguished delegates drawn from African governments, international organizations, parliaments and civil society agreed on Friday, 5 November 2010 in Tunis that the time had come for African countries to rely more on their internal res...

» What right does the west have to lecture and hector on aid? Guardian. 09 November 2010.
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There is no doubt the current climate presents an opportunity for reflection on how the west engages with resource-poor societies. We all know the stories of failed aid projects and wasted money, so it must now be time for the developmen...

» Gov’t, UN Agree 2.3m People Need Emergency Aid. Addis Fortune. 29 November 2010.
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Just two months after Human Rights Watch accused Ethiopia of misusing aid money for political means, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s (MoARD) Disaster Risk Management and Food Security Sector (DRMFSS) announced that 2....

» Chinese aid to Africa in the spotlight.
21/12/10 13:48 from Delicious/euforic/aid_effectiveness: aid effectiveness
CHINA’S approach to humanitarian assistance to African countries is set to shape aid architecture on the continent at a time inflows are projected to dwindle, a senior official with the African Development Bank (AfDB) said last week. The...

» Brazil: an emerging aid player. ODI. October 2010.
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Emerging aid donors, such as China, India and, increasingly, Brazil, are changing the international aid architecture and challenging some of its tenets, such as the current consensus on ‘aid effectiveness’. Once, aid flowed in one direct...

» Institute of Development Studies on: What Should Drive UK Aid to Developing Countries?
21/12/10 13:48 from Delicious/euforic/aid_effectiveness: aid effectiveness
"Results and Analysis from the UK Public Opinion Monitor. The UK Public Opinion Monitor (UKPOM) is a longitudinal panel of approximately 6,000 people from across the UK that is broadly representative of the demographic make-up of the UK ...

» Mutual Accountability and Transparency : A Fourth Chapter for the EU Operational Framework on Aid Effectiveness – Council Conclusions. Council of the European Union. 10 December 2010.
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» EADI Masterclass: Practical Skills for Conducting Impact Evaluations, 4 - 5 November 2010
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» Parliamentarians Schooled on Aid Effectiveness. Ghana Government Official Portal. 06 October 2010.
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Parliament is considering the enactment of a Budget Law and the establishment of a Budget Office within it to help engage the Executive at various stages of the Budget cycle. The workshop follows a high level forum on Aid Effectiveness h...

» EU aid commissioner wants to streamline crisis response after Pakistan
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10.09.2010 - Deutsche Welle

» More development aid channeled through the banks as UN is increasingly sidelined, OECD Report finds
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08.09.2010 - Eurodad

» Stories from Aidland / Special Reports /
08/09/10 10:44 from Delicious/euforic/aid_effectiveness: aid effectiveness
"Policy makers are good at thinking up policies for all sorts of development problems. But what happens to them in the process of implementation? Why is it that some policies are successful, while others simply fail? This new series will...

» OECD Trade Policy Working Paper: Lessons from Trade Reforms for the Design of Aid for Trade
06/09/10 10:45 from Delicious/euforic/aid_effectiveness: aid effectiveness
"This OECD Trade Policy Working Paper argues that the scope of activity of aid-for-trade is broad enough to support the compatible policies that will make the reform sustainable and the complementary policies that will increase its growt...

» Danish Institute for International Studies on: Donors and Agro-food standards
03/09/10 13:38 from Delicious/euforic/aid_effectiveness: aid effectiveness
"A large number of donors have supported projects and programmes to improve the capacity of developing countries to conform to the current generation of international agro-food standards. However, research carried out jointly by DIIS and...

» Aid agencies face growing hostility from Pakistani flood victims
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02.09.2010 - Deutsche Welle

» U.N. Steps Up Pressure to Raise Funds for Pakistan
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20.08.2010 - IPS ipsnews.net

» Irene A Kuntjoro on Pakistan’s Floods: How Not to be Caught Off Guard
26/08/10 14:00 from Delicious/euforic/aid_effectiveness: aid effectiveness
"OFFICIAL RECORDS show that the unfolding flood disaster in Pakistan has led to the deaths of nearly 1,500 people and affected over 15.4 million lives. (...) This fact has largely been blamed on the unprecedented intensity of the monsoon...

» The death of generosity
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10.08.2010 - (ANSA-Africa)

» Silke Weinlich on the reform of the United Nations
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"In early July 2010 the United Nations (UN) created a new Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women – to be known as UN WOMEN. It also adopted important resolutions aimed at improving the UN organisations' development coope...

» Europe sends 30 million for Pakistan flood relief effort
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02.08.2010 - Deutsche Welle

» ECOSOC Side Event – New Actors in Development Cooperation and the New Aid Architecture: the Role of Regional Governments and Local Authorities (29 June 2010)
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22.07.2010 - United Nations - Non-governmental Liaison Service

» Samuel Moon and Zachary Mills on Aligning Aid Information with Recipient County Budgets
28/07/10 15:10 from Delicious/euforic/aid_effectiveness: aid effectiveness
"The Paris Declaration and the Accra Agenda for Action emphasise the importance of aligning aid with recipient government priorities and delivering aid through government systems. However, since a significant amount of aid is not deliver...

» Alison Evans on: Returning to first principles – why give aid to some countries and not to others?
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"The debate over whether the UK should continue providing development assistance to India is not new, but it has become a lightning rod for those who argue that the UK aid programme has lost its way. In reflecting on the specifics of the...

» "Everything but Arms Deal Doesn’t Benefit Enough People"
28/07/10 13:32 from Delicious/euforic/aid_effectiveness: aid effectiveness
15.07.2010 - IPS ipsnews.net

» ODI on Global Funds: Allocation Strategies and Aid Effectiveness
26/07/10 14:58 from Delicious/euforic/aid_effectiveness: aid effectiveness
" This report, commissioned by the UK Department for International Development's (DFID) International Director's Office (IDO), looks at two closely related sets of aid effectiveness issues: how global funds allocate their funds among pro...

» EU and ACP non-state actors insist on food security as a human right
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14.07.2010 - CTA - Brussels Office Weblog -

» EU Development Commissioner meets Secretary-General
26/07/10 14:16 from Delicious/euforic/aid_effectiveness: aid effectiveness
15.07.2010 - CTA - Brussels Office Weblog

» Haiti: Aid effort six months on
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10.07.2010 - BBC News

» Masterclass: Complexity in development related projects and evaluation
21/07/10 09:57 from Delicious/euforic/aid_effectiveness: aid effectiveness
In recent years there has been a much greater acceptance of the idea that social development does not proceed according to the logical framework: it is complex, messy and emergent. What methods might evaluators use to make greater sense ...

» Masterclass on Complexity in Project Management and Evaluation 16 - 17 September 2010, Bonn
21/07/10 09:47 from Delicious/euforic/aid_effectiveness: aid effectiveness
In recent years there has been a much greater acceptance of the idea that social development does not proceed according to the logical framework: it is complex, messy and emergent. What methods might evaluators use to make greater sense ...

» ODI on Practical approaches to the aid effectiveness agenda
19/07/10 12:18 from Delicious/euforic/aid_effectiveness: aid effectiveness
"The Paris Declaration and the Accra Agenda for Action emphasise the importance of aligning aid with recipient government priorities and delivering aid through government systems. However, since a significant amount of aid is not deliver...

» 2010 European Aid Report: Read how EU's action helps the poorest countries to develop
19/07/10 11:33 from Delicious/euforic/aid_effectiveness: aid effectiveness
"The European Commission adopted today its Annual Report 2010 on the implementation of EU's development and external assistance policies in 2009. Programmes and projects led by the Commission reached around 140 developing countries." (28...

» UK to cut foreign aid to 'rich' India
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12.07.2010 - The Times of India

» China Moves from Aid Recipient to Aid Donor
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09.07.2010 - IPS ipsnews.net

» FRIDE on Revitalising Democracy Assistance
30/06/10 15:02 from Delicious/euforic/aid_effectiveness: aid effectiveness
"Despite claims to the contrary, demand for democracy is on the rise. In recent years, democracy assistance has increased but its results have been far from impressive. (...) A new FRIDE project on "Revitalising Democracy Assistance" off...

» Government may withdraw billions from overseas projects
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09.06.2010 - The Independent

» Maximising the impact of ‘Aid for Trade’ support
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18.06.2010 - ECDPM Weekly Compass

» German development minister: Development aid builds peace
25/06/10 14:23 from Delicious/euforic/aid_effectiveness: aid effectiveness
"Gaza is, in fact, a problem zone when it comes to development aid. We are there working with our own state agencies on the ground, especially in the field of emergency and transitional assistance." (24.06.2010 - Deutsche Welle)

» Aid budget to be refocused to deliver better results for world’s poorest
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16.06.2010 - DFID

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