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17-May-2006
This publication assesses the effectiveness of the various ways in which food aid can promote food security and poverty alleviation and demonstrates that food aid in-kind carries substantial efficiency costs. The study argues that, in most circumstances, financial aid (cash) is the preferable way to fund direct distribution of food or to provide budgetary support for general development or project assistance. A context-specific rationale is always required for providing imported commodity aid rather than financial aid.
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12-May-2006
The joint evaluation, An Evaluation of General Budget Support, looks at the use and effectiveness of direct payments to the budgets of developing country governments and shows that this system of delivering aid can be an effective way to strengthen the management of public financial systems in developing countries.
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09-May-2006
OECD donor countries now channel about US$ 5 billion – some 5 per cent of their aid – directly to the budgets of developing country governments. A new independent evaluation, released today at a conference hosted by the OECD, shows that this system of delivering aid can be an effective way to strengthen the management of public financial systems in developing countries, and has helped to improve access to services like healthcare and education.
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04-May-2006
Certain developing countries have already confirmed their participation in the 2006 Survey on Monitoring the Paris Declaration. Governments of countries wishing to take part in the survey are invited to send an email to the Secretariat (simon.mizrahi@oecd.org) and provide the name of the National Coordinator. For more information on the role of the National Coordinator, please consult the Explanatory Note.
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Workshop on the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness: Implications and Implementation
25-Apr-2006
Summary now available for this workshop that was held in Bamako, Mali. It provided representatives from Central, North and West African countries and their partner donor institutions the opportunity to identify practical actions that can be taken with respect to implementing the Paris Declaration.
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21-Apr-2006
In response to its mandate, POVNET has prepared guidance to donors on promoting pro-poor growth. The policy statement is developed in the attached document. POVNET has also produced reports on promoting the contribution of private sector development, agriculture and infrastructure to pro-poor growth.
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Workshop on Results Reporting by Donor Agencies
14-Apr-2006
This workshop enhanced mutual learning in the way that information on development results can be reported to the stakeholders in the development process. The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted the workshop in The Hague, The Netherlands on 11-12 April 2006.
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22-Mar-2006
Adequate country capacity is one of the critical missing factors in current efforts to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Development efforts in many of the poorest countries will fail, even if they are supported with substantially increased funding, if the development of sustainable capacity is not given greater and more careful attention.
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22-Mar-2006
Hardly a major international development event goes by without calls for more aid to be untied. In response, the DAC had agreed in 2001 on a Recommendation on Untying ODA to the Least Developed Countries. While the Recommendation provided for exceptions concerning small contracts, the DAC has now decided to lift this exception.....(Extract from Room Document presented at the 15 March 2006 DAC Meeting).
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15-Nov-2005
This online resource centre has been developed to give easy access to a central and easily searchable database of evaluation reports and publications that have been published by the the DAC Evaluation Network and its members. DEReC currently contains over 800 evaluation reports and will help to disseminate members' publications as well as to build up the "institutional memory" of evaluations of DAC members' development co-operation efforts. DEReC is also an online facility for accessing the combined evaluation experience of Network members.
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