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Robustness and vulnerabilities to corruption in Denmark’s aid funding modalities in Afghanistan
CMI Report | Jun 2017
The Danish Embassy’s risk management and mitigation system is well-structured and effective. The Embassy has a coherent and comprehensive ...
aid, funding, anti-corruption, Denmark, Afghanistan
Rethinking Governance to Fight Corruption
U4 Brief | Oct 2007
This U4 Brief argues that the key to more effective anti-corruption strategies is to think differently about governance. Instead of starting ...
aid, World
Evaluation of the Danish Association for International Cooperation (MS)
Project | Jan - Dec 2003
The main objectives of the evaluation were to (a) assess the relevance, effectiveness and impact of Danish development assistance administered ...
aid, NGOs, partnership, Africa: Kenya, Zambia., Asia: Nepal
Corruption and the city: How aid donors can support integrity building in urban spaces
U4 Brief | Mar 2018
More than half of the world's population live in urban areas. The policies and practices of municipal governments are therefore an integral ...
aid, donor coordination
Collective donor responses: Barking or biting?
U4 Brief | Mar 2014
In 2006, the OECD Development Assistance Committee Ministers of Development expressed a desire to move towards more effective collective responses ...
aid
The basics of corruption risk management: A framework for decision making and integration into the project cycles
U4 Issue | Dec 2015
Aid agencies need better systems to identify, assess, and mitigate corruption risks. Risk assessments should consider two main dimensions of ...
aid
A joint response to corruption in Uganda: Donors beginning to bite?
U4 Practice Insight | Mar 2012
Given the stagnating trend on corruption in Uganda and the need to consolidate accountability reforms ahead of the inflow of oil revenues, international ...
aid, Uganda
Corruption and collective action
U4 Issue | Jan 2015
Increasingly it is argued that anti-corruption efforts have not worked because they are based on inadequate theory, suggesting that collective ...
aid
The New Deal as an anti-corruption tool?
U4 Brief | Aug 2015
New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States provides a framework in which donors and host countries establish shared priorities for reducing fragility, ...
aid, fragile states
Effect of Paying for Performance on Utilisation, Quality, and User Costs of Health Services in Tanzania: A Controlled Before and After Study
Journal Article | Sep 2015
Despite widespread implementation across Africa, there is limited evidence of the effect of payment for performance (P4P) schemes in low ...
results-based financing, P4P, payment for performance, maternal and child health services
Effects of Payment for Performance on accountability mechanisms: Evidence from Pwani, Tanzania
Journal Article | Jan 2017
Payment for Performance (P4P) aims to improve provider motivation to perform better, but little is known about the effects of P4P on accountability ...
P4P, RBF, Health, Tanzania
Does aid for trade to SADC countries facilitate poverty reduction?
Book Chapter | Dec 2009
Given that the motivation for aid is poverty reduction, I argue that Aid for Trade (AfT) measures need to demonstrate that they are effective ...
Aid for Trade, SADC, Poverty
Assessing aid impact: A review of Norwegian evaluation practice
Journal Article | Dec 2009
This article reviews recent Norwegian aid evaluations with a mandate to study impact, and assesses how the evaluators establish causal effects. ...
Development aid, Aid evaluation, Norway
Engineering gender equality: The effects of aid to women's political representation
Project | Jan 2014 - Dec 2017
While the number of women holding parliamentary seats is slowly growing globally from 10% in 1995 to 17% in 2009, Africa is on the ‘fast ...
Malawi, Zambia, Uganda, Sudan
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?
Devolutionary delusions? The effect of decentralization on corruption
CMI Working Paper | Sep 2014
The effect of government decentralization on corruption is theoretically ambiguous. On the one hand, bringing government closer to the people ...
Decentralization, Corruption, Bribery, Accountability, Capture
Natural resources, corruption and trust: A complex relationship
U4 Issue | Dec 2011
Do natural resources reduce social trust? And if so, do natural resources have a direct effect on trust, or is their effect indirect through ...
natural resource management, corruption, natural resources, social trust
Acting jointly on behalf of women? The cross-party women’s caucus in Malawi
CMI Brief | May 2016
Despite an increase in the number of countries that have adopted women’s caucuses in sub-Saharan Africa, there is still little empirical ...
women, caucus, legislation, Malawi
Lack of consultation. Stakeholders perspectives on local content requirements in the petroleum sector in Tanzania
CMI Brief | Oct 2016
Tanzania has recently discovered huge offshore natural gas fields. This has led the Government to develop Local Content Policies (LCPs) to increase ...
oil, gas, resources, local content, petroleum, Tanzania
The institutional impact of aid dependence on recipients in Africa
CMI Working Paper | Jan 1999
Heavy aid dependence can have significant effects on institutions and governance. In Botswana, Mauritius, Korea and Taiwan, high levels of aid ...
Africa: Sub-Saharan Africa