Localising aid: sustaining change in the public, private and civil society sectors
This major new report looks at whether transferring aid to or through national systems and organisations strengthens them over the long term.
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Social protection and basic services in fragile and conflict-affected situations
Samuel Carpenter, Rachel Slater and Richard MallettIn an effort to generate better understanding and to identify useful lessons and findings for researchers and decision makers working on and in fragile and conflicted-affected situations, this paper synthesises and assesses the available evidence on social protection and basic services (health, education and water) in fragile and conflict-affected situations. -
Livelihoods, basic services and social protection in Northern Uganda and Karamoja
Kirsten Gelsdorf, Daniel Maxwell and Dyan MazuranaThis paper synthesises current evidence on how people are recovering their livelihoods and accessing basic services and social protection interventions in the conflict-affected regions of Uganda’s Greater North. -
Cusco, Peru
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Source: FlickrERD 2013: European Report on Development
The European Report on Development (ERD) 2013 aims to provide an independent European contribution to the emerging debate on a possible post-2015 consensus on international development. In doing so, it will seek to answer questions such as:
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Should donors give money to countries with poor human rights?
'Donors once sent aid to the most despotic regimes to secure strategic national interests. Now they appear to want to use their aid power to stand up for the rights of citizens in other countries.' -
From seeds to simcards - what's missing from Britain's offer to the world on development
Andrew Mitchell’s speech on ‘Beyond Aid’ at the Wellcome Trust last night proved interesting timing. -
UKAid - DFID Logistics Officer helps to load a pallet of humanitarian aid to Pakistan
A DFID (Department for International Development) Logistics Officer helps to load a pallet of humanitarian aid to Pakistan onboard a C-17 aircraft, following devastating floods in the country in 2010. The tents were provided by the Department for International Development (DFID) which deals with global relief and development on behalf of Her Majesty’s Government.
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Source: FlickrA new aid deal for fragile states?
This event will consider whether a new aid deal is needed for fragile states and what this deal might look like, bringing together a range of views from civil society, the research community and fragile states themselves.
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How the 9/11 decade changed the aid, security and development landscape
This ODI Opinion reflects on the impact of 9/11 on the aid, development and security landscape and explores how development and security concerns merged in a new lexicon (‘fragility’, ‘radicalisation’, ‘stabilisation’). This raised hopes for development approaches that might better combine action to assure the human security of poor people with orthodox social and economic development. It also, however, raised fears that the ‘securitisation’ of aid would undermine both development and humanitarian action.
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Coordinating post-conflict aid in Southern Sudan
Fiona Davies, Gregory Smith and Tim WilliamsonThis Background Note from ODI’s Budget Strengthening Initiative reviews the background to aid effectiveness in Southern Sudan. -
Friend or foe? Military intervention in Libya
The Humanitarian Policy GroupThis HPG Briefing Note looks at the international community's response to the conflict in Libya and reflects on the importance of robust civil-military coordination efforts to help manage the tensions between the military and humanitarian actors in this crisis and support more effective humanitarian outcomes.