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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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
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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Saturday, June 5th, 2010
Copied from the DFID website, 3rd June 2010:
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"British taxpayers will see exactly how and where overseas aid money is being spent and a new independent watchdog will help ensure this aid is good value for money, International Development Secretary ...
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Friday, December 11th, 2009
A new website, launched in December 2009
What is Public Online Monitoring
Public Online Monitoring is an approach to bring development projects into the public realm. Public Online Monitoring improves access to project information and to facilitate communication among project stakeholders using an online platform.
OpenAid is a German NGO based in ...
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Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
Being a keen advocate of greater transparency by aid agencies and programmes this article interested me.
See it on the New Replublic website, published on October 9, 2009
The author, Lawrence Lessig, "is professor of law and director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard Law School, and ...
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Monday, October 19th, 2009
Date: 20th/21st October 2009
Venue: Amazon Auditorium, World Forum, The Hague
" In the conference to be opened by Bert Koenders, Dutch Development Minister, participants from donor agencies, partner country governments, and CSOs will come together to explore aid transparency within the broader context of ownership, domestic accountability and mutual accountability. Click ...
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Saturday, October 17th, 2009
(from the Pelican email list)
Dear all,
In reaction to the message that I sent to you earlier today, Alnoor Ebrahim sent me a link to a recent hearing of the US Congress Committee on Financial Services that looked into 'The World Bank's Disclosure Policy Review and the Role of Democratic Participatory ...
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
Produced by aidinfo. aidinfo is an initiative to contribute to faster poverty reduction by making aid more
transparent.
This is a draft for consultation that summarises the evidence we have gathered so far. We welcome suggestions, additions, comments and corrections.
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
[From the Development Gateway Foundation] In support of the Accra Agenda for Action, 14 donors committed to increasing transparency. Participants from developed countries were joined by heads of multilateral and bilateral funding institutions and representatives of foundations in agreement to make information on development more accessible. They ...
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