Archive for October, 2010
Saturday, October 30th, 2010
Anna Würth, Frauke Lisa Seidensticker, German Institute for Human Rights, 2005. Available as pdf
"In September 2001, the Swiss Government accepted a postulate by the Commission for Foreign Policy of the Federal Parliament. The postulate asked the government to develop the instrument of human rights dialogues within the human rights foreign ...
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Friday, October 29th, 2010
Date: 25 - 26 November 2010
Venue: Nordatlantens Brygge, Strandgade 91, Copenhagen
(From ODI website)
"The conference is organised by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and co-hosted by The Humanitarian Policy Group at the Overseas Development Institute and the OECD/DAC International Network on Conflict and Fragility (INCAF).
Development cooperation is ...
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Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
from the Governance and Social Development Resource Centre
Date: 03.09.2010 Available as a pdf
Query: Please identify the existing literature on participatory monitoring and evaluation, with a particular emphasis on gaining wide-ranging beneficiary feedback. Comment on the coverage, scalability, risks, benefits and applicability. Enquirer: Aid Effectiveness Team, DFID
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1. Overview
2. General Literature on ...
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Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
(from Karin Christiansen,Publish What You Fund )
"I am proud to share with you Publish What You Fund’s Aid Transparency Assessment that we have been working on over the last year. This is the first global assessment of the transparency of 30 major donors across seven indicators from eight ...
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Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
Date: Wednesday 10 November 2010, 13.30-17.00 pm,
Venue: Theatre Concordia, Hoge Zand 42, The Hague, The Netherlands
The HIVA Research Institute for Work and Society of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, PSO Capacity Building in Developing Countries, the Flemish Office for Development Cooperation and Technical Assistance (VVOB), and Vredeseilanden/VECO ...
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Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
The Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) and the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) have just launched a joint call for proposals for systematic reviews to strengthen the international community’s capacity for evidence-based policy making. AusAID, DFID and 3ie ...
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Monday, October 18th, 2010
Date: December 16-18, 2010
Venue: University of Brighton, UK
The University of Brighton will be hosting a groundbreaking, EU funded, international conference on the theme of Making the Invisible Visible: An Emerging Community of Practice in Indicators, Sustainability and Values, bringing together the leading thinkers, practitioners and organizations in these fields. The ...
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Thursday, October 14th, 2010
by Michael Clemens and Gabriel Demombynes, Centre for Global Development, 10/11/2010 Download (PDF, 733 KB)
"The authors study one high-profile case: the Millennium Villages Project (MVP), an experimental and intensive package intervention to spark sustained local economic development in rural Africa. They illustrate the benefits of rigorous impact evaluation in ...
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Monday, October 11th, 2010
The Guardian & Barclays funded and AMREF implemented, Katine Community Partnerships Project in Soroti District, Uganda is exceptional in some respects and all too common in others.
It is exceptional in the degree to which its progress has been very publicly monitored since it began in October 2007. Not only have ...
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Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
This is the title of a new posting on the Rick on the Road blog, the editorial arm of Monitoring and Evaluation NEWS. It argues that improving aid effectiveness by identifying and culling out the worst performers is a different and possibly more appropriate strategy than identifying and replicating the ...
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