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

Government Ownership Key to Successful EU Support to the Philippines

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 6 May 2013

The European Commission’s experience in the Philippines in recent years has been marked by strong country ownership of development programming and implementation. This hands-on approach has proved to be a decisive factor in achieving effective aid interventions and could offer lessons for other...

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Smart Procurement for More Effective Aid

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 6 May 2013

More aid contracts being won locally could boost development and job creation in partner countries, according to a new report by the European Network on Debt and Development, Eurodad.

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Towards Better Capacity Development: Learning from the Private Sector

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 6 May 2013

Could development professionals at the European Commission improve their efforts in developing capacity by drawing some lessons from experiences in the private sector? Consultants Paul Beaulieu and Robert LeBlanc, think they could.

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Partner Countries: Time to Seize the Capacity Development Agenda?

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 6 May 2013

After decades of donor dominated debate on the subject of capacity development, partner countries are increasingly formulating the CD-agenda, according to Jim Hradsky of the OECD, who expects partner countries to take the lead on capacity development at the Busan aid effectiveness conference in...

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Join the Debate: Using Political Economy Analysis to Improve EU Development Effectiveness

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 6 May 2013

The authors of a background note, ‘Using Political Economy Analysis to Improve European Union Development Effectiveness’, are posting a draft version of their findings in The Political Economy in Practice working group and invite interested capacity4dev members to offer their feedback. The...

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Capacity Development "The Way We Do Business"

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 6 May 2013

Capacity development is fundamental to sustainable poverty reduction and experts are expecting it to be an important topic at an upcoming international meeting on aid effectiveness.

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Contributions to the Debate on the Future of EU Budget Support

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 6 May 2013

As the European Commission and the Member States of the European Union are busy shaping the future of EU Budget Support, voices from civil society and developing countries call for strengthened budget support as one of the most effective ways of providing aid to poor countries.

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From Technical Cooperation Reform to a Wider Capacity Development Perspective

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 6 May 2013

Three years after the launch of its reform of technical cooperation, the European Commission is now looking beyond technical cooperation at ways to support capacity development more consistently across all areas of development assistance.

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Capacity Development: Where Do EU Member States Stand on the Road to Busan?

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 6 May 2013

While all European donors do not regard Capacity Development with the same degree of priority, they have become increasingly aware of the importance of supporting it as a way to achieve lasting development results, according to a recent European Commission study.

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Capacity Development and Results: Where Does Africa Stand?

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 6 May 2013

According to Frannie Leautier from the African Capacity Building Foundation, regular monitoring of capacity change in Africa could stimulate a lively debate on aid results and capacity in the run-up to Busan and beyond.

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