Publications
This section offers a selection of publications related to capacity development.
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Felix Zimmermann, OECD Policy Insights no.12, 2005. Donors, aid agencies and recipient governments are having a hard time implementing their promises on aid. Options based on a better understanding of their diverse priorities would help make the aid system more effective. Policy makers pursuing...
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Feb 2006R. Anson et al., Global Donor Platform for Rural Development, 2005. This report provides examples of best practices and challenges of donor harmonisation and alignment in Nicaragua, Burkina Faso, Tanzania and Cambodia. As the dialogue moves from principles to practice, both governments and dono...
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African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD), 2005. While South Africa is by far the largest economy in Africa, there are still a number of severe problems which make attainment of the MDGs difficult. Poverty reduction and the attainment of the MDGs will require a shift in decisi...
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Feb 2006Robert Chambers, Institute of Development Studies (IDS), 2005. With much of our world dominated by increasing extremes of power, inequality and injustice, it is tempting to be a pessimist. Robert Chambers points to the scope that all development actors have to find good things to do. He argues...
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United Nations, 2005. This report was prepared by 25 UN agencies and international organisations on the status of progress towards meeting the 8 goals, 18 targets and 48 indicators for measuring the Millennium Development Goals.
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Development Gateway Special Report, 2005. This online report explores how an unprecedented effort for global cooperation is taking shape to help reach the goals. It includes interviews with experts, collections of documents, statistics, and surveys related to global meetings leading to the MDG+...
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OECD, 2005. Volume 2, ‘Budget support, SWAps and capacity development in public financial management’, focuses on good practice in providing budget support and sets out an approach to supporting improved public financial management performance. Volume 3, ‘Strengthening procurement capacities in...
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Feb 2006World Bank OED, 2005. This review assesses the extent to which Bank interventions have contributed to growth and poverty reduction in client countries, and the effectiveness of different types of interventions. It uses the key elements of the Bank’s 2001 poverty reduction strategy to examine th...
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S. Batchelor et al., 2005, DAC Journal, OECD, vol.6(3). This report gives an overview of what DAC members currently know about how ICTs can stimulate economic growth and poverty reduction in developing economies. It draws attention to the cross-cutting applications of ICTs, to their role as too...
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Sida, November 2005. This report reviews the evidence on how (or if) ICTs should be used in support of poverty reduction. The most effective ICTs are the basic ones – telephone and radio, and computers or the Internet for restricted, targeted uses. It finds that projects are most successful if...