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No. 1 | 04 Apr 2011 |
Training and Beyond: Seeking Better Practices for Capacity Development
This paper is the result of a joint effort of OECD/DAC and LenCD to assemble the critical messages about training and learning that are emerging from the current international scrutiny of training and capacity development. It synthesises current... |
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No. 6 | 01 Oct 2012 |
From Spoilers to Statebuilders: Constructive Approaches to Engagement with Non-State Armed Groups in Fragile States
The global policy discourse and the war on terror tend to ignore the wide variety of roles and agendas of non-state armed groups (NSAGs), viewing them primarily as threats to security, negative for peace and as important spoilers that can undermine... |
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No. 5 | 01 Oct 2012 |
Transnational Organised Crime and Fragile States
Transnational organised crime (TOC) refers to a fluid and diversified industry that engages in illicit activities ranging from drug and human trafficking to drug smuggling, piracy and money laundering. Although it may affect strong states,... |
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No. 4 | 01 Oct 2012 |
Exporting from Fragile States
Although fragile states account for 15% of the global population they only contribute about 2% of exports. Trade is widely believed to be an important determinant of development. This paper analyses the challenges and opportunities faced by fragile... |
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No. 3 | 01 Oct 2012 |
International Markets for Security and Military Assistance
The end of the Cold War, globalisation, and the new global security paradigm following the 9/11 attacks have seen a rapid increase in arms production and producers across different geographic regions, as well as the growth of private security... |
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No. 2 | 01 Oct 2012 |
Growth, Aid and Policies in Countries Recovering from War
What happens to countries after civil war or other conflict comes to an end? This paper shows that post-war economies can experience a peace dividend involving higher than average growth rates, and that aid can increase this dividend. Since post-war... |
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No. 8 | 01 Dec 2012 |
The Power of Radical Islamist Ideas in Fragile States in Parts of Sub-Saharan Africa
In parts of sub-Saharan Africa, radical Islamists are targeting fragile and conflict-affected states and encouraging the formation of groups which act against the state (either violently or subversively). These processes exacerbate existing fragility... |
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No. 7 | 01 Dec 2012 |
Building a “Fragile Consensus”: Liberalisation and State Fragility
This research paper seeks to answer three central questions: (i) how can different forms of liberalisation be classified; (ii) how have liberalisation policies and measures affected conflict-affected and fragile states; and (iii) what are the... |
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No. 9 | 01 Jan 2013 |
Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire? Migration from Fragile States to Fragile States
Fragile states contributed 18 million migrants and 8 million refugees in 2000. More than 20% of these migrants and more than half of the refugees settle in other fragile states. Thus, migration is likely to be both a consequence and a possible cause... |
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No. 10 | 01 Feb 2013 |
The Challenges of Supporting Effective Security and Justice Development Programming
Early 2010, the DAC International Network on Conflict and Fragility (INCAF) Task Team on Peacebuilding, Statebuilding and Security commissioned an analysis of the critical impediments to effective donor engagement in the area of security and justice... |
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No. 11 | 01 Sept 2013 |
Guarantees for Development
This Working Paper presents the results of a Survey on Guarantees for Development carried out in the context of the OECD DAC work to modernise statistics on external development finance post 2015. No comprehensive and internationally comparable data... |
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No. 12 | 01 Dec 2013 |
The Evolution of Official Development Assistance
The definition of Official Development Assistance (ODA) has for 40 years been the global standard for measuring donor efforts in supporting development co-operation objectives. It has provided the yardstick for documenting the volume and the terms of... |
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No. 14 | 16 Dec 2013 |
Green Growth and Poverty Reduction
This paper explores the policy coherence for development (PCD) dimensions of green growth strategies pursued by OECD member states. The coherence challenge is to design OECD green growth policies in order to maximise the positive synergies and... |
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No. 13 | 16 Dec 2013 |
Risk and Resilience
Resilience has gained significant prominence following the re-examination of the performance of the humanitarian and development aid systems in light of the two major food security crises in East and West Africa over the last two years, coupled with... |
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No. 15 | 12 May 2014 |
Food and Nutrition (in-)Security and Social Protection
Social protection measures are policy instruments that are widely used across a broad range of developing countries in pursuit of many different development objectives. In many cases social protection measures such as food or cash transfers were... |
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No. 16 | 05 Jun 2014 |
Social Protection and Climate Change
Climate change has already resulted in climate-related extreme events of greater frequency and/or intensity. This, along with long-term changes in average conditions (whether in temperature or rainfall), is likely to continue to have a major impact... |
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No. 19 | 11 Jul 2014 |
Official Support for Private Sector Participation in Developing Country Infrastructure
The objective of this study is to take stock of support by bilateral and multilateral donors for private sector participation in developing country infrastructure. It tries to draw out trends, opportunities and challenges, collective activities to... |
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No. 17 | 15 Jul 2014 |
A Calculated Risk: How Donors Should Engage with Risk Financing and Transfer Mechanisms
Better financial preparedness against risk is a central part of a comprehensive approach to disaster management. Risk financing and risk transfer are approaches to planning for risks that cannot be reduced or avoided practically or cost-effectively... |
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No. 18 | 07 Oct 2014 |
Imagining More Effective Humanitarian Aid
This paper is intended to provoke debate, and stimulate further thinking and study, about humanitarian effectiveness, and what that will mean for donors and other stakeholders, in the run-up to the World Humanitarian Summit in 2016. Today’s... |
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No. 20 | 04 Feb 2015 |
Making Development Co-operation Fit for the Future
This paper provides insights into what partner country governments anticipate will be their main development challenges within five to ten years, and into how they expect their relationships with DAC development assistance providers to evolve in... |
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Training and Beyond: Seeking Better Practices for Capacity Development
Jenny Pearson
04 Apr 2011
This paper is the result of a joint effort of OECD/DAC and LenCD to assemble the critical messages about training and learning that are emerging from the current international scrutiny of training and capacity development. It synthesises current...
From Spoilers to Statebuilders: Constructive Approaches to Engagement with Non-State Armed Groups in Fragile States
Sukanya Podder
01 Oct 2012
The global policy discourse and the war on terror tend to ignore the wide variety of roles and agendas of non-state armed groups (NSAGs), viewing them primarily as threats to security, negative for peace and as important spoilers that can undermine...
Transnational Organised Crime and Fragile States
Paula Miraglia, Rolando Ochoa and Ivan Briscoe
01 Oct 2012
Transnational organised crime (TOC) refers to a fluid and diversified industry that engages in illicit activities ranging from drug and human trafficking to drug smuggling, piracy and money laundering. Although it may affect strong states,...
Exporting from Fragile States
Anke Hoeffler
01 Oct 2012
Although fragile states account for 15% of the global population they only contribute about 2% of exports. Trade is widely believed to be an important determinant of development. This paper analyses the challenges and opportunities faced by fragile...
International Markets for Security and Military Assistance
Roy Isbister and Tom Donnelly
01 Oct 2012
The end of the Cold War, globalisation, and the new global security paradigm following the 9/11 attacks have seen a rapid increase in arms production and producers across different geographic regions, as well as the growth of private security...
Growth, Aid and Policies in Countries Recovering from War
Anke Hoeffler
01 Oct 2012
What happens to countries after civil war or other conflict comes to an end? This paper shows that post-war economies can experience a peace dividend involving higher than average growth rates, and that aid can increase this dividend. Since post-war...
The Power of Radical Islamist Ideas in Fragile States in Parts of Sub-Saharan Africa
Abdelkérim Ousman
01 Dec 2012
In parts of sub-Saharan Africa, radical Islamists are targeting fragile and conflict-affected states and encouraging the formation of groups which act against the state (either violently or subversively). These processes exacerbate existing fragility...
Building a “Fragile Consensus”: Liberalisation and State Fragility
Peter Middlebrook
01 Dec 2012
This research paper seeks to answer three central questions: (i) how can different forms of liberalisation be classified; (ii) how have liberalisation policies and measures affected conflict-affected and fragile states; and (iii) what are the...
Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire? Migration from Fragile States to Fragile States
Anke Hoeffler
01 Jan 2013
Fragile states contributed 18 million migrants and 8 million refugees in 2000. More than 20% of these migrants and more than half of the refugees settle in other fragile states. Thus, migration is likely to be both a consequence and a possible cause...
The Challenges of Supporting Effective Security and Justice Development Programming
Nicole Ball and Luc van de Goor
01 Feb 2013
Early 2010, the DAC International Network on Conflict and Fragility (INCAF) Task Team on Peacebuilding, Statebuilding and Security commissioned an analysis of the critical impediments to effective donor engagement in the area of security and justice...
Guarantees for Development
Mariana Mirabile, Julia Benn and Cécile Sangaré
01 Sept 2013
This Working Paper presents the results of a Survey on Guarantees for Development carried out in the context of the OECD DAC work to modernise statistics on external development finance post 2015. No comprehensive and internationally comparable data...
The Evolution of Official Development Assistance
William Hynes and Simon Scott
01 Dec 2013
The definition of Official Development Assistance (ODA) has for 40 years been the global standard for measuring donor efforts in supporting development co-operation objectives. It has provided the yardstick for documenting the volume and the terms of...
Green Growth and Poverty Reduction
Michael King
16 Dec 2013
This paper explores the policy coherence for development (PCD) dimensions of green growth strategies pursued by OECD member states. The coherence challenge is to design OECD green growth policies in order to maximise the positive synergies and...
Risk and Resilience
Andrew Mitchell
16 Dec 2013
Resilience has gained significant prominence following the re-examination of the performance of the humanitarian and development aid systems in light of the two major food security crises in East and West Africa over the last two years, coupled with...
Food and Nutrition (in-)Security and Social Protection
Rachel Slater, Rebecca Holmes and Nicholas Mathers
12 May 2014
Social protection measures are policy instruments that are widely used across a broad range of developing countries in pursuit of many different development objectives. In many cases social protection measures such as food or cash transfers were...
Social Protection and Climate Change
Chris Béné, Terry Cannon, Mark Davies, Andrew Newsham and Thomas Tanner
05 Jun 2014
Climate change has already resulted in climate-related extreme events of greater frequency and/or intensity. This, along with long-term changes in average conditions (whether in temperature or rainfall), is likely to continue to have a major impact...
Official Support for Private Sector Participation in Developing Country Infrastructure
Kaori Miyamoto and Kim Biousse
11 Jul 2014
The objective of this study is to take stock of support by bilateral and multilateral donors for private sector participation in developing country infrastructure. It tries to draw out trends, opportunities and challenges, collective activities to...
A Calculated Risk: How Donors Should Engage with Risk Financing and Transfer Mechanisms
Lydia Poole
15 Jul 2014
Better financial preparedness against risk is a central part of a comprehensive approach to disaster management. Risk financing and risk transfer are approaches to planning for risks that cannot be reduced or avoided practically or cost-effectively...
Imagining More Effective Humanitarian Aid
Rachel Scott
07 Oct 2014
This paper is intended to provoke debate, and stimulate further thinking and study, about humanitarian effectiveness, and what that will mean for donors and other stakeholders, in the run-up to the World Humanitarian Summit in 2016. Today’s...
Making Development Co-operation Fit for the Future
Robin Davies and Jonathan Pickering
04 Feb 2015
This paper provides insights into what partner country governments anticipate will be their main development challenges within five to ten years, and into how they expect their relationships with DAC development assistance providers to evolve in...