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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

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  • The Dutch and Danish Debate the Future of Aid

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    Development assistance is once again the focus of intense debate. This time the discussion is in the Netherlands and Denmark, respectively, but the relevance of their deliberations goes beyond the borders of their two countries.
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  • The Challenge of Being ‘Backbone-minded’

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    How can we bring the principles of the Backbone Strategy on Technical Cooperation Reform into supporting infrastructure programmes? How can we be Backbone-minded? These were the themes of a recent internal session at EuropeAid headquarters. AIDCO Unit E7, which is in charge of quality assurance on...
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  • Learning About South South Cooperation

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    A call for case studies detailing effective south-south cooperation in practice, launched by the Task Team on South-South Cooperation, has generated wide interest.
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  • Embracing Technical Cooperation Reform in ACP Countries

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    The European Commission's reform of technical cooperation, has become an integral part of the EC's work, according to Gary Quince, EuropeAid's Director for African, Caribbean and Pacific Countries. It was only a couple of years ago that Mr Quince, like many Commission staff, first...
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  • Quake Disaster Shouldn't Detract from Long-term Objectives

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    Haiti is still reeling from a devastating earthquake, but its leaders don’t want the humanitarian relief operation to detract from the country’s long-term development objectives and the Commission has offered its support, according to top officials.
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  • Time to Learn and Act

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    As a high level meeting on South-South Cooperation and Capacity Development approaches, there is a growing push to get from talking to walking.
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  • Technical Cooperation and Spain's EU Presidency

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    With the start of the New Year, Spain assumed the presidency of the European Union. During Spain’s six-month term the EU is set to implement a framework that includes measures on technical cooperation for enhanced capacity development and the new presidency has already thrown the spotlight on the...
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  • South-South Cooperation Moving to Centre Stage

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    South-South Cooperation is moving up the international aid effectiveness agenda. Colombia is hosting a high-level event on South-South Cooperation and capacity development in March 2010. Capacity4dev.eu will follow the debate up to that event and gives a first overview in this article.
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  • Improving Performance Measurement in the Social Sectors

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    There are abundant stories about over-ambitious targets and badly chosen indicators in Performance Assessment Frameworks. So should we do away with PAFs as instruments for sector capacity development? No, says Willem Cornelissen from the Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam and...
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  • Technical Assistance: Too Much of the Wrong Thing?

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    In war-torn Afghanistan, technical assistance has been the standard recipe for getting quick results in a situation with limited government capacity. It has at best been a double edged sword, according to a recent learning event on technical cooperation in the capital, Kabul. On the other hand,...
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