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Joint Evaluation of Citizens' Voice & Accountability: Synthesis Report

Alina Rocha Menocal, Bhavna Sharma

London: Department for International Development (DFID) (2008), xxi, 109 pp.

"Citizens’ Voice and Accountability (CV&A) work has emerged as a priority in the international development agenda from the 1990s onwards. In their CV&A work, donors recognise the importance of context: it shapes relation to that context. However, context awareness has not proven sufficient to enab ... more

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Freedom of Oppression: Government Communication on Swedish Democracy Support

Regeringskansliet (2008), 90 pp.

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Donantes a la sociedad civil latinoamericana: Donantes europeos, organizaciones no gubernamentales internacionales, donantes latinoamericanos, organismos de cooperación internacional, y fundaciones de Estados Unidos

Buenos Aires: Fundación Avina (2008), 10, xii pp.

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Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation in Development Organisations: Sharing training and facilitation experiences

John DeConinck, Khilesh Chaturvedi, Ben Haagsma, Hans Griffioen, Mariecke van der Glas

New Delhi et al.: Sage; Interkerkelijke Organisatie voor Ontwikkelingssamenwerking (icco); Cordaid (2008), xv, 200 pp.

"Planning, monitoring and evaluation (PME) remains a challenge for many development organisations in spite of countless PME workshops, experts and manuals. Yet, we believe that effective PME is essential for organisational survival (and therefore for sustainable development) and that this can be nur ... tured through careful and sensitive PME training and facilitation. We do not propose here a PME manual: our aim in these pages is rather to share some of our real-life experiences as PME facilitators and to offer suggestions to support PME processes, with a focus on civil society organisations. As a group of facilitators who have worked on PME issues in different contexts, we realised that we confronted three common challenges: 1. First, a perception of PME as imposed, ‘technical’ and expensive [...] 2. Second, in terms of PME contents, there is a frequent focus on a particular project, or programme, rather than on the wider organisation, its reason for existence and the broader context in which it operates [...] 3. Third, we see PME support processes that emphasise training workshops which, however well delivered, seldom lead to successful PME application, let alone sustained use. This refl ects the limits of a one-shot method, as opposed to a more process-oriented approach, where PME is about day-to-day activities and attitudes, rather than ‘PME events’. So why this book? While we work in various countries, for different organisations and in different roles, we propose to share experiences that refl ect these common challenges and help to: 1. Embrace a ‘total organisation’ approach to PME, not only rooted in programmes, or projects, but with a wider perspective: that of the ‘total organisation’, with its financial dimension, its environment, its collaborators and competitors, in a context informed by local and national cultures [...] 2. Enhance custom-made PME. We have found that PME support is rarely effective if it is not customised to a particular organisation and its stakeholders [...] 3. Bring PME into daily learning practice so that it becomes part of mental processes within a partner organisation, changing mindsets and attitudes, while refl ecting contexts and capacities." (Pages 3-5) more

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Communications Strategy for Russia's Development Assistance: A Review of Other Donors' Experience

Christopher Neal, Svetlana Markova

Washington, DC: World Bank (2008), 55 pp.

"This paper reviews the public positioning of official development assistance (ODA) pr ograms of selected donor countries, as well as that of multilateral development institutions. It compares and contrasts their communications objectives, messages, strategies, practices and products. It also discus ... more

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Corruption and Development Aid: Confronting the Challenges

Georg Cremer

Boulder, Colorado; Freiburg: Rienner; Lambertus (2008), xiv, 169 pp.

"Although corruption has always been a quietly recognized aspect of development aid programs, the taboo against openly discussing it is only now being widely overcome. Georg Cremer systematically addresses the subject, exploring the nature and impact of corruption, the conditions under which it is m ... more

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Democratisation's Third Wave and the Challenges of Democratic Deepening: Assessing International Democracy Assistance and Lessons Learned

Lise Rakner, Alina Rocha Menocal, Verena Fritz

London: Overseas Development Institute (ODI); Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) (2007), v, 57 pp.

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The Effective Exit: Managing the End of a Funding Relationship

Anne Mackinnon, Jan Jaffe

GrantCraft (2007), 29 pp.

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Capacity Development in Fragile States

Derick W. Brinkerhoff

Maastricht; Washington, DC: European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM); RTI International (2007), iv, 32 pp.

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Effects of U.S. Foreign Assistance on Democracy Building: Results of a Cross-National Quantitative Study

Steven E. Finkel, Aníbal Pérez-Linán, Mitchell A. Seligson

Dinorah Azpuru (assist.)

Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University (2006), 111 pp.

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Promoting Democracy in Postconflict Societies

Jeroen de Zeeuw, Krishna Kumar (eds.)

Boulder, Colo.; London: Rienner; Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations (2006), xii, 331 pp.

"This study critically evaluates international democratization assistance in postconflict societies to discern what has worked, what has not, and how aid programs can be designed to have a more positive impact. The authors offer a unique recipient perspective as they explore three dimensions of demo ... more

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Proving Our Worth: Developing Capacity for the Monitoring and Evaluation of Communicating Research in Development

Nicholas Perkins

Department for International Development (DFID); Institute of Development Studies (IDS); Healthlink Worldwide (2006), 4 pp.

"An informal network composed of representatives from a number of UK organisations concerned about the impact of research on the reality of poverty convened a workshop on 5-6 September 2006. The objectives of the workshop were to mobilise a wider group of organisations working in the field of resear ... more

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EU Entwicklungszusammenarbeit verstehen: Glossar zu Themen und Institutionen der EU Entwicklungspolitik

Wien: Österreichische EU Plattform entwicklungspolitischer Nichtregierungsorganisationen (2005), 26 pp.

"Dieses Glossar zu Themen und Institutionen der EU Entwicklungspolitik bietet kurze und prägnante Einstiegsinformationen zu aktuellen und wichtigen entwicklungspolitischen Abkürzungen und Schlagworten, mit denen sich EU-Institutionen sowie NROs derzeit befassen. Für alle, die sich weitergehend in ... more

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Wirkungsbeobachtung und Evaluierung bei der Förderung von Demokratie und Good Governance: Leitfaden für Geberinstitutionen und GutachterInnen

AG Demokratieförderung und ihre Evaluierung

Arbeitskreis "Evaluation von Entwicklungspolitik" in der DeGEval (2005), 34 pp.

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USAID/OTI Afghanistan Program: Final Evaluation

Social Impact Inc.

Washington, DC: USAID (2005), 91 pp.

"The purpose of the final evaluation was to provide the Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI) and the U.S. Agency for International Development with an assessment of the relevance, effectiveness, and lessons learned from OTI’s mega-program in Afghanistan. Since evaluations of the media program ha ... more

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Our Common Interest: Report of the Commission for Africa

London: Commission for Africa (2005), 461 pp.

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Democracy Assistance to Post-Conflict Ethiopia

Dessalegn Rahmato, Meheret Ayenew

The Hague: Netherlands Institute of International Relations 'Clingendael' (2004), xvii, 93 pp.

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Indigene Völker in Lateinamerika und Entwicklungszusammenarbeit

Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) (2004), 230 pp.

"Das BMZ hat bereits zu Beginn der von den Vereinten Nationen ausgerufenen indigenen Dekade (1994 – 2004) ein Konzept zur Zusammenarbeit mit indianischen Bevölkerungsgruppen erarbeitet, das für die GTZ und KFW Entwicklungsbank verbindlichen und für NROs orientierenden Charakter hat. Dieses Konz ... more

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Projects Do Not Create Institutions: The Record of Democracy Assistance to Post-Conflict Societies

Jeroen de Zeeuw

Democratization, volume 12, issue 4 (2004), pp. 481-504

"Highlights the major accomplishments and setbacks of electoral, human rights and media assistance to eight post-conflict countries: Cambodia, Ethipoia, Rwanda, Uganda, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, El Salvador and Guatemala. International assistance has been instrumental in encouraging democratic initi ... more

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The Power and Limits of NGO's: A Critical Look at Building Democracy in Eastern Europe and Eurasia

Sarah E. Mendelson, John K. Glenn (eds.)

New York: Columbia University Press (2002), xiii, 264 pp.

"Since the end of the Cold War, a virtual army of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) from the United States, Britain, Germany, and elsewhere in Europe have flocked to Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia. These NGOs are working on such diverse tasks as helping to establish competitive political ... more