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Conference programme: International Research Conference on the Effectiveness of Development Cooperation
Programme for the International Research Conference on the Effectiveness of Development Cooperation, held in Brussels, Belgium, on 17-18 November. Selected WIDER Working Papers, along with conference paper drafts and posters presented at the conference, are linked below. This page will be updated with links to recordings of the conference sessions and to additional WIDER Working Papers as they are released.
Programme, 17 November
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| 09:00-09:30 | Registration and coffee | ||||||||
| 09:30-11:00 |
Plenary 1 Welcome and opening Fiona Ramsey, DG INTPA Rachel M. Gisselquist, UNU-WIDER Keynote: Is Aid Effective in Reducing Violence? | Presentation Anke Hoeffler, University of Konstanz Chair: Patricia Justino, UNU-WIDER |
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| 11:00-11:15 | Break | ||||||||
| 11:15-12:45 |
Parallel 1.1 | Promoting Collective Action in a "Post-aid Effectiveness" World Chair: Niels Keijzer and Stephan J. Klingebiel, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) Papers Stephan Klingebiel, Jonas Painter & Lisa Trebs | Modalities of Knowledge Interactions in International Cooperation: An Analysis of Selected Knowledge Actors Svea Koch, Ina Friesen & Niels Keijzer | Emerging stronger from the crisis? Efforts towards stronger cooperation in EU development policy under “Team Europe” Lena Gutheil & Dirk-Jan Koch | Civil society organizations and managerialism: on the depoliticization of the adaptive management agenda Thilo Bodenstein & Mark Furness | Conflicting Policy and Practice Norms and Western Aid to the MENA Region since the Arab Uprisings Daniel E. Esser & Hayatullah Jawad | Bilateral development cooperation to strengthen civil society in fragile and conflict-affected countries: Did Germany do no harm in Afghanistan? |
Parallel 1.2 | Aid Effectiveness: Evidence from the Private Sector Chair: Venla Voutilainen, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland Papers Pietro Bomprezzi, Silvia Marchesi & Tania Masi | Firm-level evidence on the effects of European aid projects Arays Abdullahi, Mohamed Kalid Ali, Elijah Kipchumba & Munshi Sulaiman | Micro-enterprise in Humanitarian Programming: Impact Evaluation of Business Grants vs. Unconditional Cash Transfer in Somalia Alain Ndikumana | Does Chinese aid promote manufacturing industry in Africa? Amal Ahmad, Leonard Krapf & Sebastian Vollmer | Aid effectiveness and participatory management:The case of water user groups |
Parallel 1.3 | Aid in Fragile and Conflict Affected Contexts: Selected Case Studies Chair: Miren Aguirre, European Commission Papers Muhammad Makki & Waseem Iftikhar Janjua | Understanding the Contextual Realities of Security-Development Nexus in the PostConflict North Waziristan, Pakistan Primitivo III Cabanes Ragandang | Beyond development aid: dynamics of multi-stakeholders partnership among youth-led organizations in post-conflict communities in Mindanao, the Philippines Ruth Castel-Branco | Fast-Tracking Financialization: The World Bank's Social Protection Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Mozambique Kambaiz Rafi | Contradictions of ‘Centralized-Minimalist’ Statebuilding; The Case of Afghanistan’s Constitutional Republic Henry Mooney | Renewable energy mega projects in sub-Saharan Africa: Exploring the relationship between deliberative democracy and mitigation of conflict over land |
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| 12:45-13:45 | Lunch | ||||||||
| 13:45-14:15 |
Poster session 1 Chair: Abrams M.E. Tagem, UNU-WIDER Heather Lanthorn | “It became a fight:” the political economy of adopting and owning the AMFm Phase I pilot in Ghana Raquel Ismara Leon De La Rosa | Gender equality and women empowerment: UN Women Second Chance Education programme in Tehuacán, México Gilberto Marcos Antonio Rodrigues | Development co-operation, governance and democracy: how local autonomy may improve effective development co-operation? Nerea Craviotto Ortega | Ownership: How Private Sector Instruments could threat progress on aid untying Morgane Rosier | (Mis)applying the foreign aid effectiveness principles in Vanuatu: ownership, alignment, and harmonisation |
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| 14:15-15:45 |
Parallel 2.1 | Ownership of Aid 1 |
Parallel 2.2 | Aid, Politics, and Political Institutions in Recipient Countries Chair: Laura Bretea, European Commission Papers Nematullah Bizhan | The politics and policies of aid-recipient countries and aid effectiveness | Ravi Kumar Gupta, Udit Maheshwari & Dhirendra Bahadur Singh | An Analysis of Impact of Personalism of Political Politics on Aid Effectiveness Melissa David Samarin | Aid and democratic outcomes: findings from a systematic review Luke Amadi | Can Development Co-operation be effective at the decline of multilateralism?: Evidence from empirical review and implications for inclusive partnerships |
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| 15:45-16:15 | Coffee | ||||||||
| 16:15-16:45 |
Poster session 2 Chair: Abrams M.E. Tagem, UNU-WIDER Sergio Ismael Vázquez Meneley | Are we doing well or are we going back? Evaluation of the implementation of the GPEDC in Latin America and the Caribbean Pamela White | Whose Values Count? Building ownership in the water sector in Nepal Amitabha Sarkar | Mapping Development Effectiveness: World Bank in India’s Health Systems Landscape Gloria Novovic | National Development Plans as Inclusive Policy Arena for National Development Ownership Laura Radatz | Aid and Democracy – The Effectiveness of Conditional Development Aid Innocent Okwanya | Aid Effectiveness and Poverty Nexus: Interrogating the Linkage between AID Delivery and Communal needs in Conflict-Prone Areas of sub-Saharan Africa Maria Angela Zafra | Aid Effectiveness for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation: The Case of the Philippines Veda Vaidyanathan Narayanaswami | India’s Development Cooperation in Africa: The Case of ‘Solar Mamas’ Who Bring Light |
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| 16:45-18:15 |
Parallel 3.1 | Transparency and Accountability Chair: Sanna Takala, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland Papers Alexander De Juan & Carlo Koos | Addressing Local Information Asymmetries in Development Aidin Fragile States Kristine Eck | Police Oversight in Post-Conflict Security Sector Reform Canh Thien Dang & Trudy Owens | NGO's motivation to diversify: self-interest or operation-related? Evidence from Uganda |
Parallel 3.2 | Influence of Donor Countries and Organisations on Aid Effectiveness |
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| 18:15 | Reception | ||||||||
Programme, 18 November
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| 08:30-09:00 | Morning coffee | ||||
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Parallel 4.1 | Ownership of Aid 2 Chair: Karen del Biondo, European Commission Papers Malin Hasselskog, Vedaste Ndizera & Joakim Öjendal | Connecting national ownership and local participation in aid recipient countries. The cases of Rwanda and Cambodia Stephen Brown | Effective Development Cooperation and Sexual and Gender Minorities Shumey B. Teshome & Paul Hoebink | Aid, Ownership, and Coordination in the Agriculture Sector in Ethiopia Debapriya Bhattacharya, Towfiqul Islam Khan & Najeeba Mohammed Altaf | Unpacking 'Ownership' in Development Cooperation Effectiveness: Perspectives of Southern Recipients |
Parallel 4.2 | Measuring and Evaluating the Effectiveness of Aid Chair: Izabella Toth, CORDAID Papers Ravinder Bhavnani, Karsten Donnay, Nina Sophia Schlager & Mirko Reul | Defining Signatures of Resilience to Acute Malnutrition in Kenyan Households Janos Borst, Thomas Wencker & Andreas Niekler | Using Text Classification with a Bayesian Correction for Estimating Overreporting in the Creditor Reporting System on Climate Adaptation Finance Patrick Mabuza, Francis Kemeze, Oluwatoba Omotilewa, Mamadou Bah & Btissam Benkerroum | Assessment of institutional set-up of results measurement and reporting systems for non-sovereign operations in development finance institutions Stefan Leiderer & Helge Roxin | Effectiveness of German Development Cooperation in dealing with conflict-induced migration crises |
Parallel 4.3 | Econometric Analyses of the Development Outcomes of Aid Chair: Eivind Hammersmark, Norad Papers Matthew Kofi Ocran | Politics, Policies and Effectiveness of Foreign Aid in Fragile States Zunera Rana & Dirk-Jan Koch | Can fungibility of development aid lead to more effective achievement of the SDGs? An analysis of the aggregate welfare effect of aid fungibility Sara Daub & Marina Dodlova | Development Aid in Times of Conflict: A Case Study of Iraq |
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| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee | ||||
| 11:00-12:30 |
Parallel 5.1 | Aid-Institutions Nexus Chair: Mads Hove, DG INTPA Papers Mathieu Cloutier, Hodan Hassan, Deborah Isser & Gael Raballand | Understanding Somalia’s Social Contract and State-Building Efforts: Consequences for Donor Interventions Thierry Kangoye | Aid, Institutional Transplants, and Democracy Alessandro Belmonte, Vincenzo Bove & Jessica Di Salvatore | Donors for Tax Morale: Evidence from 34 African Countries Ali Compaoré & Abrams M. E. Tagem | Does aid fragmentation affect tax revenue dynamics in developing countries? Observations with new data |
Parallel 5.2 | Aid Effectiveness: Perspectives from the Health Sector Chair: Arve Ofstad, ECORYS Papers Hany Besada | Development aid in fragile states Investigating the effectiveness of COVID-19 aid in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Dick Durevall & Ann-Sofie Isaksson | Aid and child health: Local effects of aid on stunting in Malawi Ryan Jablonski, Brigitte Seim, Mariana Carvalho & Clark Gibson | The Effects of Top-Down Monitoring on Medicine Theft Léonce Ndikumana, Lynda Pickbourn & Ray Caraher | Does project-level aid for water and sanitation improve child health outcomes? Evidence from household panel data in Uganda |
Parallel 5.3 | Inclusive Knowledge Production for Effective Development Co-operation Chair: Shailaja Fennell, University of Cambridge Papers Rekha Bhangaonkar | Can social learning support adaptive management? Groundwater governance in semi-arid India Albert Sanghoon Park | Mapping 'Resilience' in ASEAN: Policy Transfer Challenges in Sustainable Development Georges Quist | A Financial Straitjacket? Côte d’Ivoire’s National Development Banks Noura Wahby | Corporatisation and Technopolitics: Water Billing in Cairo’s Urban Areas
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| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch | ||||
| 13:30-15:15 |
Plenary 2 | Past Lessons and Reflections on Aid Effectiveness Panel Chair: Debapriya Bhattacharya, Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) Papers David Carment & Yiagadeesen Samy | Aid Effectiveness in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Contexts: Lessons from More than Two Decades of Research Nilima Gulrajani | Development narratives in a post-aid era: Understanding the implications for the global effectiveness agenda Christoph Zuercher | Evidence on aid (in)effectiveness in highly fragile states: A synthesis of three systematic reviews of aid to Afghanistan, Mali, and South Sudan, 2008–21 Rachael Calleja & Beata Cichocka | Good for now but not forever: officials’ perspectives on the relevance of the effectiveness agenda and the need for change Rachel M. Gisselquist, Patricia Justino & Andrea Vaccaro | Indicators of Aid Effectiveness: Empirical Linkages between Principles and Outcomes Closing remarks: Christina Etzell, DG INTPA Rachel M. Gisselquist, UNU-WIDER |
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| 15:15-15:45 | Coffee | ||||