How transparent are aid agencies to their citizens? Introducing the Citizen Aid Transparency Dataset

Citizens' juries: an aid to environmental valuation?

Survey techniques such as contingent valuation have been used extensively by environmental economists to develop an understanding of consumer preferences for environmental goods. On the basis of such techniques, recommendations have been formulated in relation to environmental policy. However, the exposure of weaknesses in this method has led economists to look to other informationgathering app...

Effective Aid for Hitting the Bull’s Eye; Comment on “It’s About the Idea Hitting the Bull’s Eye”: How Aid Effectiveness Can Catalyse the Scale-up of Health Innovations”

This article studies how six key aid effectiveness principles for “Hitting the bull’s eye” can bring about the scale up of maternal and newborn health (MNH) interventions. These key principles are based on accepted international agreements such as the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. The results indicate that the six principles should be a guide for recipient countries to take ownership ...

Harper skirts transparency on foreign aid.

Marrying new global players with the international aid transparency initiative : the future of aid data governance

Development aid forms an important link between rich countries, poor countries and poor people. But there have been serious concerns raised by aid critiques about the quality and accuracy of the global aid data (Riddell 2007, Easterly and Pfutze 2008 and Birdsall et al, 2010). It is often incomplete and of poor quality. Though OECD DAC has long played a key role in defining and capturing data o...

Dynamite under the Intercommunal Bridge : How Can Aid Agencies Help Defuse It ?

Drawing on evidence from two case-study projects, this article identifies two types of conflict transformation approaches used by aid agencies in developing countries: promotive and pre-emptive. Recognizing that activities designed to promote linkage between groups often are ineffective in preventing conflict, the article explores how the second 'pre-emptive' approach seems to address shortcomi...