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Blogpost: lessons on WASH sustainability from Central Asia
28 March 2012 | asia pacific, donors, indicators, kyrgyzstan, methodology, monitoring, uzbekistan, wash, waterOne of the biggest barriers to water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) access in many areas isn’t the lack of infrastructure, but the lack of investment in and planning for maintenance and repair. ...
Blogpost: Governance, aid and corruption in transition: Taking State capture seriously « Economic Research Forum Blog
26 March 2012 | analysis, blogpost, corruption, donors, state capture, trendsBy Daniel Kaufmann, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution Evidence suggests that over the past decade, misgovernance in the Arab world was not only acute, but also worsened over time. Yet this poor...
e-Discussion: Can anyone point me to a (scientific or policy) instrument for measuring the effectiveness foreign Democracy support/assistance in Africa? Any literature or reports on the same are much welcome. | LinkedIn
28 February 2012 | aid effectiveness, discussion, donors, methodologiesFollow Josh Can anyone point me to a (scientific or policy) instrument for measuring the effectiveness foreign Democracy support/assistance in Africa? Any literature or reports on the...
Blogpost: What exactly is 'governance' anyway? (WB, 3 Nov 2010)
04 November 2010 | aid, blogpost, donorsThere is a lot of angst in the Bank at the moment over the role and functioning of the newish ‘cadre’ of governance specialists. This reflects the endless debate about just what governance is, what...
Blogpost: Which Countries Pass the FY2011 Corruption Indicator? A Preview into Round 8 of the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s Country Selection (CDG, 3 Nov 2010)
04 November 2010 | aid effectiveness, corruption, donors, indicators, publicationIn this MCA Monitor analysis, Casey Dunning and Sarah Jane Staats summarize which countries pass the latest control of corruption indicator, offering a first look at which countries might be selected...
Visualisation of EU funds helps to fight corruption in the EU (Spaces for Transparency, 18 Aug 2010)
20 August 2010 | aid effectiveness, assessment of donors, donors, europe, fiscal transparency, presenting data, visualisationClick on the map for the full size image (>4 MB); explanations in the text What you see above is a visualisation to who (some of the) EU funds were awarded in 2009*. It is just a little experiment...
Blogpost: Global Good Governance Indicators (in US aid policy) (globalsecurity.org-situation report, 5 Aug 2010)
05 August 2010 | blogpost, donors, methodology, usa, usaidIdeally indicators should be universally accepted, but this is not easy to do. One concrete example is the Washington Consensus, an attempt to define standard economic policy prescriptions...
Report: Cross-country analysis on citizen engagement helps inform development policy making (IDS, 2 Aug 2010)
02 August 2010 | civ engagement, civ society, cross-country, donors, methodology, report, social accountabilitySupporters of bottom-up policy approaches to development have been bolstered by a recent study that identified a range of positive outcomes - many previously unrecognised - that result when citizens...
Data Report 2010 (One, 25 May 2010)
26 May 2010 | aid effectiveness, assessment of donors, donors, global index, publication, reportShared by Governance Assessment Portal Washington, D.C. – ONE’s 2010 DATA Report shows that promises made to African countries at the2005 Gleneagles G8 Summit have yielded historic increases in...
Publication: Joint Donor Responses Study highlights assessing governance and corruption as a basis for responses OECD Govenet, 22 April 2010)
22 April 2010 | anti-corruption, case studies, corruption, donors, publication, studyGOVNET was tasked with developing a framework for more effective collective donor responses to corruption. To inform this work, the GOVNET Anti-Corruption Task Team commissioned a study of how donors...