Future stability in Afghanistan depends in part upon continued delivery of development assistance throughout the country, albeit at reduced levels, ...

Aid coordination is expected to ensure the more efficient and effective delivery of humanitarian assistance. Presently, a large number of humanitarian ...

Foreign aid contributes to about 10% of gross domestic product of developing countries. To distribute aid in recipient countries, Western donors increasingly ...

Donor funding has fuelled a vast increase in service delivery, medical research and clinical trials throughout the developing world. Yet, there is a dark ...

The European Union needs to develop a coherent strategy and invest in tackling corruption outside its own neighbourhood.

Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are often on the front line of aid delivery, managing a significant proportion of aid funds. The risk of corruption ...

The literature on corruption tends to focus on grand corruption for contracts and licenses worth large sums of money. However, 1.6 billion people annually ...

International forces are scheduled to leave Afghanistan during 2014 and there is a fear that this can lead to further instability and reduction in development ...

Military and civilian actors are engaged in a debate over where to draw the lines in the provision of humanitarian and development assistance. This is ...

What impact has Tanzania's Local Government Reform Programme had on local governance, finances and service delivery? Have there been any changes over ...

The Service Delivery Indicators (“the Indicators”) provide a set of metrics for benchmarking service delivery performance in education ...

The purpose of this evaluation has been to improve the aid administration’s current practice of results-based management by documenting ...

Does the possession of certain types of natural resource wealth undermine national economies and damage polities? Mick Moore has studied contemporary developing countries, focusing on the political consequences of resource rents. Mick Moore is Professor at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.

Some donor interventions, like supporting public financial management, seem to help combat corruption. Others are ineffective. Opinion by Aled Williams ...

In malaria endemic countries of sub-Saharan Africa, many children develop severe anaemia due to previous and current malaria infections. After blood transfusions ...

The Local Government Reform Programme (LGRP) in Tanzania aims to restructure local government authorities so that they can respond more effectively to ...

Open data platforms have a great unexplored potential. Publicly available health data can make service delivery more transparent and accountable. Experience ...

Right to Play (former Olympic Aid), is an athlete-driven international humanitarian organisation which uses sport and play as a development tool for children ...

The urbanisation of poverty is one of the most dramatic developments on the African continent, yielding contrasting images of affluent residential and ...

Lansering av rapporten "Hunting for Per Diem: The Uses and Abuses of Travel Compensation in Three Developing Countries".