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Education from the Bottom Up: UNICEF’s Education Programme in SomaliaThe failure of the Somali state from 1993 to 2012 represents one of the world’s most profound and prolonged cases of state collapse. Initially, education and other government services came to a standstill...
Children Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic development projectsBlog
From the Editor’s Desk (October 2013)
31 October 2013 Tony Addison October finds Angle in New York, for our event on ‘Fragility and Aid–What Works?’ at the Permanent Mission of Germany to the UN...
Agriculture Budget ChildrenBlog
Getting into a State?
30 October 2013 Roger Williamson The UNU-WIDER meeting held last week in New York on the topic of fragility and aid argued forcefully that you cannot ‘fix’ failed states as you would a broken window...
Agriculture Budget Conflict managementWorking Paper
Liberia’s Gender-Sensitive Police Reform: Starting from Scratch? Improving Representation and ResponsivenessAfter its 14-year civil war, Liberia worked with multiple donors and partners to restore security...
Bureaucracy Crime Economic assistance and foreign aidWorking Paper
The National Solidarity Programme: Assessing the Effects of Community-Driven Development in AfghanistanThis paper describes the results of an impact evaluation of the National Solidarity Programme, a community-driven development programme in Afghanistan that created democratic village councils and funded small-scale development projects...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic development projects Public goodsWorking Paper
A Review of External Assistance and Aid Effectiveness for Maternal and Child Health: Challenges and OpportunitiesThis paper primarily focuses on how global funding has supported interventions that have proven to be successful in reducing maternal, newborn, and child mortality around the world...
Children Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic development projectsWorking Paper
Delivering Good Aid in Hard Places: the Yemen Social Fund for Development ApproachThe Yemen Social Fund for Development (SFD) was established in 1997 with the support of the international community, and in particular the World Bank, to combat national poverty and reinforce the limited existing social safety net...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic development Economic development projectsWorking Paper
Foreign Aid and Decentralization: Policies for Autonomy and Programming for ResponsivenessDonor support for decentralization comes in two main categories: recommendations at the policy level and project activities at the programming level...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic development Economic development projectsWorking Paper
The Challenge Fund Aid Modality: Assessing the Potential for Tackling Gender Challenges in DevelopmentThis paper compares the use of Challenge Funds by the UK’s Department for International Development and Sweden’s International Development Agency to address gender challenges in development...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic development projects Social responsibility of businessResearch Brief
Evaluations: Crucial for the Spread of Social Protection ProgrammesEvaluations of social protection programmes have been much more comprehensive in Latin America than in sub-Saharan Africa. Monitoring and evaluation protocols are crucial to facilitate improvements in government effectiveness...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic development projects Poverty measurementBlog
From the Editor's Desk (February 2013) Tony Addison As the snow continues to lie deep across Helsinki, UNU-WIDER is putting the last touches to the ReCom results meeting on ‘aid and the social sectors’, which takes place at Sida in Stockholm on 13 March...
Industrialization Econometric models (Economic development) ChildrenWorking Paper
Evaluating Antipoverty Transfer Programmes in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa: Better Policies? Better Politics?The paper provides a comparative analysis of the incidence of evaluation methods in antipoverty transfer programmes in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic development projects Poverty measurementWorking Paper
It’s All about MeE: Using Structured Experiential Learning (‘e’) to Crawl the Design SpaceThere is an inherent tension between implementing organizations—which have specific objectives and narrow missions and mandates—and executive organizations—which provide resources to multiple implementing organizations...
Economic development projectsBlog
Jobs are Development
Carl-Gustav Lindén One important part of ReCom–Research and Communication on Foreign Aid is the sharing of results...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic development projects Structural adjustment (Economic policy)Journal Article
Identifying and Addressing Gender Issues in Doing BusinessPart of Journal Special Issue Female Entrepreneurship Across Countries and in Development
Economic development projects Institutional economics WomenBlog
The Challenge of Small Island Developing StatesWim Naudé, Mark McGillivray and Amelia U...
Climate change Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic development