Archive for September, 2010
Monday, September 27th, 2010
"On the 22nd September, Rosalind Eyben organised a meeting of some seventy development practitioners and researchers worried about the current trend for funding organisations to support only those programmes designed to deliver easily measurable results, although these may not support transformative processes of positive and sustainable changes in people’s lives.
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Monday, September 27th, 2010
Date: Date: 23 November 2010
Venue: Venue: St Anne's College, Oxford, UK
There are many debates about the ‘So what?’ question, in terms of concerns about the actual impact of international cooperation. What is the development sector actually achieving in terms of improving the lives of the poor? Have we focused on ...
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Sunday, September 26th, 2010
Angus Deaton, Research Program in Development Studies, Center for Health and Wellbeing, Princeton University, March, 2010 Full text as pdf
ABSTRACT
There is currently much debate about the effectiveness of foreign aid and about what kind of projects can engender economic development. There is skepticism about the ability of econometric analysis to ...
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Friday, September 17th, 2010
UNICEF, the Rockefeller Foundation and Claremont Graduate University (CGU), in partnership with IOCE and DevInfo, are pleased to announce a series of live webinars on “Emerging Practices in Development Evaluation”. This series has allowed CGU to expand greatly on our previous online offerings, and includes a range of guest speakers ...
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Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
Jörg Faust , German Development Institute D-I-E, 2010, APSA 2010 Annual Meeting Paper. Available as pdf
Abstract:
"Foreign aid is said to be more effective for development if it is allocated to relatively poor recipient countries’ with relatively sound political institutions. This allocation rule also meets the preferences ...
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Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
"Researchers at Wageningen University and the VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, have been working together on a type of monitoring that they have called reflexive monitoring in action (RMA). RMA has been developed especially for projects that aim to contribute to the sustainable development of ...
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Thursday, September 9th, 2010
on Devex, By Eliza Villarino on 06 September 2010
"The U.K. Department for International Development launches an online discussion to seek input on how it should implement the UKaid Transparency Guarantee.
The U.K. Department for International Development has opened an online discussion to help it decide how to implement its ...
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Thursday, September 9th, 2010
Mark Tran, Guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 8 September 2010 11.40 BST
"More than half of Britons think development aid is wasted and do not support the coalition government's policy of ring-fencing assistance for poor countries, a survey shows.
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Thursday, September 9th, 2010
(From The Broker)
Dancing to the tune, by Nancy Okail, July 2010
This story chronicles my involvement in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) monitoring survey on aid effectiveness in a North African country in 2006. The OECD monitoring survey was a tool designed to assess how ...
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Thursday, September 9th, 2010
Available on the DFID website and as a pdf.
"Structural Reform Plans are the key tool of the Coalition Government for making departments accountable for the implementation of the reforms set out in the Coalition Agreement. They replace the old, top-down systems of targets and central micromanagement.
The reforms set out in ...
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