Aid Effectiveness

Increasing the effectiveness of aid means ensuring that aid helps developing countries to improve the welfare of their poorest populations. For this reason, aid must be genuinely focused on development priorities set by these countries. Developing countries bear the primary responsibility for their own development, but the EU accepts its share of responsibility and accountability for the joint efforts undertaken in partnership.

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Aid effectiveness - Aid fragmentation - Aid modalities - Division of labour & donor coordination - Joint analysis - Joint implementation - Joint programming - Mutual accountability - Ownership - Science of delivery - Transparency

Is Development Happening?

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013

The EU Development Days brought together thousands of development practitioners and policy makers from across the world in Brussels, Belgium, for two days of debate and discussion on the hot topics in their industry. We asked some of them: Is development happening?

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Technical and Economic Cooperation by Emerging Powers: More Actors on the Horizon

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013

While industrialised nations have traditionally taken the lead in coordinating development, emerging powers like South Africa, Brazil and India are increasingly assuming a role as providers of technical cooperation, too. Is this a welcome conversion? We’d like your views.

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Prioritising Support for Parliamentary Institutions

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013

The Office for the Promotion of Parliamentary Democracy was created within the European Parliament in response to an increase in demand for support from new and emerging parliamentary democracies. Watch this video interview with OPPD director Dick Toornstra.

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EU-Funded Project "Walks with Communities" towards Democracy in Malawi

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013

Having managed to slip away briefly from her household chores, Joyce Mtenje sits at a wooden desk in a district resource centre in Malawi, flipping through the pages of “The Nation” newspaper. She's taking advantage of an EU-funded centre that's about to transform to a Malawian...

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EU Trade Facilitation Efforts Boost New President’s Anti-Graft Programme in Philippines

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013

The European Union delegation’s support for the Philippines’ Bureau of Customs has become a triple shot. Benedikt Madl, Programme Manager for Trade at the EU delegation to the Philippines, explains.

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Building Ownership to Deliver Sustainable Water Aid

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013

When the children of Inyima in southeast Nigeria began to fall sick and die, villagers were horrified to learn that their own poor hygiene practices had contaminated the community’s drinking water, causing a deadly diarrhoea outbreak.

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Increasing Support for Parliaments: Topic of Recent Conference

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013

Engaging with the world’s lawmakers is a new, expanding and crucial field for European Commission staffers working on democracy assistance. That was the message heard by dozens of participants at a recent pilot workshop on supporting parliaments around the globe.

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Governance Challenges in Education: Similar Problems, Different Causes, Tailored Solutions

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013

While a massive body of water separates Haiti and the Democratic Republic of Congo, there’s not an ocean of difference between them in terms of the scale of the governance challenges facing their education sectors.

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Enhancing Institutional Capacity to Negotiate EU Association and Trade Agreements

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013

A recent two day planning and knowledge exchange workshop to address institutional change gave a boost to the implementation of the Comprehensive Institution Building Programme, bringing together some 25 colleagues from EuropeAid headquarters and representatives from European Union delegations in...

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One Ukraine Government Manager Sees Movement in EU-Backed Institution Building Programme

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013

From the viewpoint of one Ukrainian government manager, a new element of a European Union programme aimed at its “Eastern Partnership” initiative is easing coordination of institutional development (ID), but political support is needed for overall success.

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