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Implementing the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness

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UNDP’s involvement in the Paris Declaration process is two-pronged: 1) to engage on development cooperation issues, specifically the quality of aid; and 2) to support developing countries’ implementation of the aid effectiveness commitments and to facilitate their participation in global fora. With the exception of using country systems where further progress is needed, UNDP is faring well overall in reaching the 2010 Paris Declaration targets on effective aid. Slow progress on UNDP’s use of more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 15, 2012

Somaliland aid report

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The current direct implementation funding model, where donors channeled the aid through the international implementing institutions with the minimal consultation of the Somaliland government, which turned the development to supply-driven rather than demand driven. The minimal contribution of Somaliland to its development by only 6.7% of its budget, which equivalent to only 3.6% of the total 2009 development budget turned Somaliland to remain just as mere aid receiver, as if it is in more...

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D C on May 14, 2012

Exploring the links between UN Convention against corruption and the Paris Declaration

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It is acknowledged by donors that the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) should play a central role in country-level dialogue, implementation, and monitoring of anti‑corruption work. At the same time, when supporting UNCAC implementation, the principles of the Paris Declaration should be applied.Also, donor alignment efforts are still rather limited to the national level; even when adopting sectoral approaches, donors still focus heavily on the central level of government. With more...

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D C on May 09, 2012

The Global Fund: What next for aid effectiveness and health systems strengthening?

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Having recently been through a triple crisis (fiduciary, financial and managerial), the Global Fund is undergoing a process of “transformation.” Several reports and articles have been published about how the Global Fund should change. However, there has been generally little discussion about how the transformation of the Global Fund should accommodate its commitments and responsibilities towards aid effectiveness (AE) and health systems strengthening (HSS). This report changes that by first more...

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D C on May 10, 2012

Aid Policy: Beyond the MDGs - planning for after 2015

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Twelve years gone, and three years still to go: as the Millennium Development Goals’ (MDG) target date of 2015 gets closer, the debate is intensifying about what went right and what went wrong, and – perhaps more importantly – what kind of goals should be set for the future. “The current, more health-focused MDGs have driven significant progress and investment in health globally,” Olga Golichenko of the International HIV/AIDS Alliance told IRIN . Paul Wafer, who is working on post-2015 more...

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D C on May 09, 2012

Haiti: Where Has All the Money Gone?

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Since the 2010 earthquake, almost $6 billion has been disbursed in official aid to Haiti, a country with a population of just under 10 million. An estimated $3 billion has been donated to NGOs in private contributions in addition to official aid. The United States Government alone has disbursed almost $2 billion of this total amount and has pledged over $3 billion for relief and reconstruction.

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Moushumi Biswas on May 15, 2012

AusAID Adviser Stocktake Report

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AusAID contracts advisers to support partner governments, AusAID and other partners in the implementation of the aid program. An adviser’s assignment can range from providing short-term technical expertise to working closely with counterparts for several years to build local skills and expertise in areas like health, education and food security. Used appropriately, advisers are an effective and flexible way of providing aid and can make an important contribution to a country’s development.There more...

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D C on April 30, 2012

Output-based Aid for Sustainable Sanitation

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Results-based financing (RBF) has emerged as an important way of financing public services in general and basic services in particular. One type of RBF known as output-based aid (OBA) tends to be used to target subsidies for poor customers by providing service providers the incentives to serve the areas of greatest need. Unfortunately, experience with OBA in sanitation is limited. One of the motivation for this paper is to consider why this is the case.The objective of this study is to more...

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D C on April 26, 2012

Aid Tying and Donor Fragmentation

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This study tests two opposing hypotheses about the impact of aid fragmentation on the practice of aid tying. In one, when a small number of donors dominate the aid market in a country, they may exploit their monopoly power by tying more aid to purchases from contractors based in their own countries. Alternatively, when donors have a larger share of the aid market, they may have stronger incentives to maximize the development impact of their aid by tying less of it. Empirical tests strongly and more...

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D C on April 30, 2012

Does international aid need a 12-step program?

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“Let go and let God.” It’s a mantra of Alcoholics Anonymous. And after the last week or so, I’m wondering if it’s time for international aid to adopt the same approach to recovery (with more politically correct secular references of course).***This post originally appeared at: http://www.how-matters.org/2012/05/05/aid-12-step-program/***Related PostsDevelopment Aid 2.0Logframes…errrgh!Grassroots = No Brains?The elephant hasn’t left the room: Racism, power & international more...

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Jennifer Lentfer on May 05, 2012

Does humanitarian aid improve America’s image?

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Nearly a year ago, as Japan struggled with the devastation wrought by the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, the United States military launched “Operation Tomodachi,” a major humanitarian aid mission, to help the Japanese government respond to the crisis. The effort made a strong impression on the Japanese people – ratings for the U.S. reached sky-high levels following the American mission. And it was not the first time that relief to those in need has enhanced America’s reputation. In more...

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D C on April 19, 2012

The Index of Global Philanthropy and Remittances 2012

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Global philanthropy, remittances, and private capital investment totaled $575 billion in 2010 (latest available data), accounting for 82% of the developed world’s economic dealings with developing countries. American private flows to the developing world increased to $39 billion in philanthropy, $95.8 billion in remittances, and $161 billion in private investment capital. Marking a major recovery for U.S. private capital flows, this important long-term development resource accounts for nearly more...

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D C on April 05, 2012

Do World Bank Country Classifications Hurt the Poor?

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The World Bank's classification system divides its 187 member countries into four categories: low income ($1,005 or less); lower middle income ($1,006 – $3,975); upper middle income ($3,976 – $12,275); and high income ($12,276 or more). Whether a country is low income (LIC) or middle income (MIC) affects many things, from eligibility for concessional lending from the multilateral banks, to donor aid policy, to trade access (low-income countries are more likely to have access to rich-world more...

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D C on April 30, 2012

Aid and the private sector

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The new emphasis on the private sector as a “development partner and actor” in the official discourse poses many risks. It probably also poses some new opportunities for Reality of Aid’s approach. But to get a better sense of both, Reality of Aid needs to do a more systematic mapping of the risks and opportunities that the private sector – domestic and international – pose to the Reality of Aid vision of development. There is, for example, a deficit of evidence and knowledge about the different more...

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D C on March 25, 2012

How New Technologies Impact Aid Coordination

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The focus of this paper is on how these technologies can be used in the service of providing humanitarian aid to save lives and improve the distribution of food, shelter materials and other needed resources during and after a disaster. in terms of coordination we are considering three components:- The first is gaining a thorough and accurate situational awareness of the state of affairs in the areas affected by the disaster.- The second is mobilizing the right financial, physical and human more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 05, 2012

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