Assessing the effectiveness of external financial flows for meeting the 2030 Agenda goals
Panel discussion at the Global Solutions Summit 2019 Date and Venue 18 March 2019, 15.00 – 15.50 hrs; European School of [...]
Financing SDGs: Is humanitarian aid causing a diversion?
This article looks at how a higher flow of humanitarian assistance has influenced the development finance discourse.
Is blended finance trending in the LDCs? Perspectives from the ground
Blended finance is picking up as a new source of finance to meet the funding gap in implementing SDGs. [...]
Tackling Development Effectiveness: A spectrum of unfinished business(es)
The need to broaden focus and attention from ‘aid effectiveness’ to ‘development effectiveness’ has gained momentum with Busan HLF4. But what development effectiveness means specifically and what framework accounts for the intended shift have yet to be articulated.
New Development Landscape and its Challenges
This blog post looks at the challenges and shifts that the development landscape has experienced over the last decade. It argues for the need for developing a new methodological framework for assessing development effectiveness.
Harnessing Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for Development Effectiveness
The question of whether and how Big Data could help donors, policymakers, and development professionals to get a better sense of the effectiveness of development has become more relevant.
Bolivia, the Latin American Cinderella
New financial sources have clearly changed the development landscape in Bolivia. Still, there are discrepancies about whether real changes have happened in the country’s management.
Five Questions for New Metrics to Assess Development Effectiveness
There is an urgent need to revisit the metrics of assessing development effectiveness of development cooperation. It is underpinned by significant changes in recent times regarding the concept of development effectiveness, and the emerging new modalities of development cooperation.
Non-traditional aid in Uganda: Weighing private vs public priorities
Uganda needs to take lead in establishing a more accountable structure for negotiating external support from “non-traditional” development partners.
Why do we need to rethink Development Effectiveness?
It is maintained that the aid effectiveness initiative remains an unfinished business. Despite being technically sound, it lacks necessary political ownership on the part of both providers and recipients.