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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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  • Capacity Development Stocktaking: Change Readiness

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    How can partners address capacity development and what can you do to support them in the early stages of such processes? This is a key issue that underlies all European Commission efforts towards sustainability of development and aid effectiveness.
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  • Mapping the Demand - and Supply Side

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    Who are actually pressing for performance from public organisations? Who are overseeing them, and to whom are they accountable? The Toolkit for Capacity Development has a handy tool for mapping sector and governance actors.
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  • Improving Donor Harmonisation Through Joint Monitoring

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    Improving Donor Harmonisation Through Joint Monitoring The EC offers three concrete proposals. At the 2nd Joint Monitoring Seminar, The European Commission proposed three concrete steps that donors can take towards better harmonisation through joint monitoring of common development projects.
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  • Moving Towards a Shared South-South Cooperation Policy

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    The broadly worded South-South policy recommendations, signed off at the recent international event in Bogota, reflect a cautious step towards an international consensus.
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  • Difficulties Matching Theory and Practice in Tanzania

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    “Compliance with financial regulations and disbursement pressure continues to drive the agenda. In this regard, we wonder what room there is to adopt the Backbone Strategy principles,” said Enrico Strampelli Head of Development Cooperation at the EU Delegation in Tanzania, in a recent interview for...
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  • Rethinking Support to Local Governance

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    To strengthen local governments across Africa, donors would be advised to spend more time and resources in researching and understanding local systems, according to Jean Pierre Elong Mbassi a key expert from the region. Mr Mbassi, from Cameroon, is a well known expert in decentralisation and has...
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  • I do? You do? We do?

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    Who should call meetings, lead capacity assessments or mobilise consultants and monitor their progress? Get help to find the right answer to these questions and more in another tool from the Toolkit for Capacity Development.
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  • Quality Support Reviews Produce Early Lessons

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    Since January, European Commission Delegations have been required to complete Quality Assessment Grids in addition to Action Fiches for technical cooperation support operations in the QSG process. The first samples arriving for review at headquarters offer some interesting lessons on the ongoing TC...
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  • South-South Cooperation Tops Agenda

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    Development practitioners and experts from across the globe are to gather in Bogota, Colombia, this week for a three-day conference on South-South Cooperation that could shape south-south policy for years to come.
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  • The Backbone Strategy and In-Country Partners

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    What does the European Commission’s reform of technical cooperation mean for in-country partners? This digested paper offers some guidance.
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