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1. Scaling up what works: managing risks in fragile states

   Opinion - Articles and blogs - 7 October 2011

   Since the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra in 2008, there has been a growing awareness amongst the international community that low-income countries with fragile institutions are not simply more difficult cases of development, but require a fundamentally different approach to delivering development assistance.

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   Does donor support to public financial management reforms in developing countries work? An analytical study of quantitative cross-country evidence

   Publication - Discussion papers - 19 April 2011

   ODI Working Papers 329

   Paolo de Renzio, Matt Andrews and Zac Mills

   This Working Paper is part of a broader evaluation of donor support to public financial management (PFM) reforms in developing countries, bringing together quantitative evidence on the quality of PFM systems and the impact of donor support to PFM reforms.

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3. Study of climate finance effectiveness

   Projects - April 2011 to September 2011

   The objective is the study is an assessment of the current study of the climate finance effectiveness landscape, in particular highlighting the realisation of the gap in understanding climate finance effectiveness from both the recipient and donor perspectives, and 'market-based finance' and 'leveraging measurement methodologies'.

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   Accounts clerk looking at accounts

   Accounts clerk looking at accounts, ECWA Evangel Hospital, Jos, Nigeria
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   Credit: MikeBlyth
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   Long-term research perspectives on budget support

   Event - Workshop - 22 March - 19 October 2011

   The purpose of this series of closed events is to allow prominent researchers and policy advisors more time to think through and discuss what are considered to be some of the key questions and themes surrounding budget support today.

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5. CABRI - A much needed unified voice on what aid transparency really means for aid-recipient governments

   Opinion - Articles and blogs - 4 March 2011

   There has not been an effective and independent collaborative voice on what ‘aid transparency’ should mean from any recipient country or group of countries – until now.

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   Evaluation of Donor Support to Public Financial Management (PFM) Reform in Developing Countries: Analytical study of quantitative cross-country evidence

   Publication - Research reports and studies - 30 November 2010

   Paolo de Renzio, Matt Andrews and Zac Mills

   This study is part of a broader evaluation of donor support to Public Financial Management (PFM) reforms in developing countries.

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7. Public financial management (PFM) reforms in fragile and conflict-affected states (FCS): providing operational guidance for development practitioners

   Projects - May 2010 to December 2010

   The objective of this study is to undertake a comprehensive stock-taking, review and synthesis of lessons learned about designing, implementing and measuring public financial management (PFM) reform initiatives in fragile and conflict-affected states (FCS). It is the second part of a two-phase project which aims to better understand how PFM reforms may be supported more effectively in FCS.

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   Finance - man holding cash

   A man holding a pile of cash.
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   Budget Strengthening Initiative

   Projects - April 2010 to March 2015

   The Budget Strengthening Initiative supports fragile and conflict-affected states to build more effective, transparent and accountable budget systems.

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9. Evaluation of donor support to public finance management (PFM) reform in developing countries

   Projects - March 2010 to July 2010

   The overall evaluation of donor support to PFM reforms aims to answer two key questions: where and why do PFM reform efforts succeed? and where and how does external support to PFM reform efforts contribute most effectively to their success?

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    Taking Stock: What do PEFA Assessments tell us about PFM systems across countries?

    Publication - Discussion papers - 25 May 2009

    ODI Working Papers 302

    Paolo de Renzio

    Using the results of 57 PEFA assessments completed in August 2007, this paper looks at comparative cross-country PFM performance and analyses differences linked to country characteristics.

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