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Company influence on foreign aid disbursement: Is conditionality credible when donors have mixed motives?

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2003

When donors enforce conditionality upon recipients who do not implement the conditions, companies can suffer from cancellation of their contracts with ...

Triadic, Foreign aid, Credibility, Fungibility, Samaritan's dilemma, JEL classification: E61, F35

Rukwa Ruka. The attempt of a foreign donor to uplift a neglected region: A study of the impact of Norwegian aid to Rukwa Region, Tanzania

CMI Report | Oct 2009

From 1978 to 1996 a close link existed between one of Tanzania’s least developed regions and Norway. Norway provided aid to the tune of 400 million ...

Tanzania, Aid impact, Rural development, Norwegian aid

Asian Models for Aid: Is There a Non-Western Approach to Development Assistance? Summary record of seminar held in Oslo, December 2006

CMI Report | Oct 2007

The expansion of the international donor community clearly challenges the current "consensus" of a new "harmonised" aid architecture, ...

Development aid, Asia, Japan, China, India, South Korea

Downward accountability in humanitarian aid. The example of UNHCR Uganda

U4 Issue | Nov 2020

If aid organisations are accountable to their beneficiaries, there is potentially less risk of corruption. Interventions may also be more efficient and ...

Corruption, Anti-corruption, Accountability, Refugees, Humanitarian aid, Uganda

Foreign aid donors and democratisation in the South

Book Chapter | Jan 2000

(SIDA evaluation report 99/4)

Accounting for Poverty Reduction in Norwegian Development Aid to Mozambique

CMI Report | Jan 2008

Poverty reduction is the overarching goal of Norwegian development assistance, as expressed in the "Government Plan of Action for Combating Poverty in ...

Poverty reduction, Development aid, Norway, Mozambique, Mozambique

Filling "the Gap": Lessons well learnt by the Multilateral Aid Agencies

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2005

An assumed gap between relief and development assistance was widely discussed in the 1990s. Urged to "mind the gap", the multilateral aid agencies ...

Multilateral aid, Development aid, Humanitarian assistance, International organizations

Post-war Aid: Patterns and Purposes

Journal Article | Jan 2005

A recent report by the World Bank reiterates the widely-held view that donor agencies commit large amounts of funding in the immediate post-conflict phase, ...

postwar aid, conflict, reconstruction, peacebuilding

Norwegian aid is wasted

News | 21 Jun 2013

Or isn't it? Do aid efforts to reduce child mortality actually work? Do projects aimed at female empowerment lead to less violence against women?

The Challenge of Assessing Aid Impact: A Review of Norwegian Evaluation Practice

Report in External Series | Apr 2008

The Challenge of Assessing Aid Impact: A Review of Norwegian Evaluation Practice Alf Morten Jerve

Aid evaluation, Evaluation, Norway

The elephant still in the room: The effectiveness of development aid policy regarding corruption

Newspaper Op-Ed | Apr 2011

Anecdotes abound that corruption is still a very real challenge for development aid policy and practice. So too does more formal research evidence. This ...

corruption, anti-corruption, aid

Leaking projects: Corruption and local water management in Kyrgyzstan

U4 Practice Insight | Oct 2013

Poor water infrastructure in Kyrgyzstan from the Soviet era led international donors to support investments in agricultural irrigation and potable freshwater ...

natural resource management, Kyrgyzstan

The uses and abuses of social programmes: the case of conditional cash transfers

U4 Brief | Jul 2010

Social programmes have been increasingly used by developing countries to fight poverty and have attracted growing budgets. However, it has been empirically ...

political corruption, Peru

Community-Driven Development in Contexts of Conflict

CMI Report | Jan 2003

Violent conflict represents a significant barrier to development. While Community Driven Development (CDD) programmes have been effective in establishing ...

Community driven development, Conflict, Poverty, Reconstruction, Development

From Aid Effectiveness to Poverty Reduction. Is Foreign Donor Support to SADC Improving?

Report in External Series | Jan 2008

From Aid Effectiveness to Poverty Reduction. Is Foreign Donor Support to SADC Improving? Elling N.

Aid effectiveness, Poverty reduction, SADC, Southern Africa

Countries in violent conflict and aid strategies: The case of Sri Lanka

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2000

In countries with an ongoing violent conflict aid donors are confronted by four sets of issues: How the volume and orientation of the program may influence ...

Asia: Sri Lanka

Aid to education: What works

News | 20 Jan 2017

Education is an important focus in many countries’ aid policies. Research shows that education is a good investment in the future on all levels, ...

Aid, Education

The World Food Programme (WFP) and international food aid

Book Chapter | Jan 2000

The World Food Programme (WFP) and international food aid Just Faaland, Diana McLean and Ole David

Responding to the Covid-19 Pandemic - Early Norwegian Development Aid Support

Report in External Series | Oct 2020

This report - commissioned by Norad's Evaluation Department - provides a mapping and analysis of early Norwegian development aid related to Covid-19 . ...

health, Covid 19, development aid, Norway

Aid for human rights and democracy: Challenges of design, management and evaluation

Book Chapter | Jan 2001

This chapter discusses the difficulties aid agencies encounter when entering the comparatively new and sensitive field of human rights and democracy support. ...

Human rights, Democratisation, Aid, Global