And another blog for ONE, on Hilary Clinton’s recent visit to Africa. Will come up with a better way of meshing my personal and ONE blogs at some point. Apologies for duplication.
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My first blog post for ONE, done with Dr. Sipho Moyo, ONE’s Africa Director. Great video too.
“Aid is only ever a means to an end. Aid that is truly effective will eventually do itself out of a job.” (The Tunis Consensus) The Tunis Consensus is the fruit of the second regional (African) meeting on Aid Effectiveness, held in November 2010. Organised by the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) and the African Development [...]
Donors are keen to play their part in improving governance in developing countries and see the inclusion of governance on the aid effectiveness agenda as an important entry point in this regard. But the role that donors can play in directly shaping the landscape of politics and governance in developing countries is - and should be - limited, for [...]
In the aftermath of the election in Ethiopia – elections that resulted in a landslide victory for the ruling EPRDF party – outsiders such as the UK Government or Human Rights Watch are being told, on the one hand, by the EPRDF, to keep their uninformed opinions to themselves, and, on the other, by the [...]
Interesting post, as usual – even though I sometimes disagree – from Owen Barder about transparency. I’ve stuck my oar in – again again – making the point that – CATCHPHRASE ALERT – “transparency is a necessary but not sufficient condition for securing effective accountability”.
There are lots of problems with development assistance. One of them is that people like me don’t really know what we’re doing, but pretend that we do. Or more specifically, that we rarely make explicit why we think that what we are doing will lead to the results that are hoped for. My thinking on [...]
