The report ‘Gender Equality, the new aid environment and CSOs’ was researched and written by the Gender & Development Network (GADN) because of a growing concern about the fast changing aid structures, such as direct budget support, pooled funding schemes for supporting civil society and other forms of donor alignment and their possible implications for work on gender equality and women’s rights issues, in the Global North and South. In many countries CSOs play a crucial role in working to more...
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'We women from 15 West African countries and Mauritania, representing 33 organisations and networks of the sub region, at the West African Women’s Consultative Meeting on Aid Effectiveness and Gender Equality, organised in Lome, Togo from 25th to 27th June 2008 by Women in Law and Development in Africa,
(WiLDAF) with financial support from UNIFEM Regional Office for West Africa and OSIWA (Open Society Institute for West Africa); Having analysed the principles of the Paris Declaration and the more...
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This set of Primers shares critical information and analysis about the new aid architecture that has emerged as a result of the Paris Declaration (PD)-the most recent donor-partner agreement designed to increase the impact of aid. This aid effectiveness agenda, the result of the signature and implementation of the Paris Declaration process currently determines how and to whom aid is being delivered as well as how donor and aid-recipient countries are relating to one another. We hope the informat more...
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Developed countries provide billions of dollars of aid to developing nations every year. Although some of these funds have yielded positive results, much appears to have had little tangible impact. This has led to substantial “donor fatigue” and a justifiable questioning of whether developed countries should be providing more aid resources. It is extremely difficult for elected officials to explain to their constituents why they send their taxes to a far-away country with unclear results, es more...
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For any policy priority, a given level of resources will only have its maximum impact when there is information about the effectiveness of alternative uses for those resources. Yet in the case of aid spending there is remarkably little good evidence on the relative effectiveness of alternative ways to spend aid. Figuring out what is the most effective way to reduce poverty is not as simple as it might appear. Consider the following example: A new headmaster arrives at a school full of enthusiasm more...
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Vaccines are among the world’s most effective health interventions. Three million lives are saved each year by a standard package of cheap, off-patent vaccines which reaches three-quarters of the world’s children. Coverage is considerably lower for newer vaccines. However, despite recent scientific advances which have increased the feasibility of developing malaria, tuberculosis, and AIDS vaccines, global R&D on these vaccines is woefully inadequate. Funds for global public and non-profit ma more...
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Global public goods have benefits which go beyond the person or country that paid for them. For example, if a country invests in R&D for new scientific discoveries in health or agriculture, the benefits will be available to everyone, not just the country that paid for it. This characteristic of public goods means that there will usually be too little investment in them. A wide range of global public goods - from health R&D to preventing climate change - suffer from lack of investment. Wealthy co more...
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