Donors face strong incentives to undertake their own assessment of the governance situation in partner countries, with various objectives responding to different needs. Still, quite often, there is space for better coordination.
In 2014, experts working for the European Commission carried out a synthesis of budget support evaluations from seven different countries. “We have learned that the funds we provide don’t just go into a black hole,” said Jürgen...
Rwanda has broken the mould and shown that a partner country can take the lead in assessing the quality of its governance, producing a Joint Governance Assessment Report in September 2008. In the process, the Rwandan government...
Nairobi, 21 October 2021 – A drastic reduction in unnecessary, avoidable and problematic plastic is crucial to addressing the global pollution crisis, according to a comprehensive assessment released today by the UN Environment...
What kind of issues and challenges do teachers face in developing countries? What forms of support can help address them? Join our discussion and share your views.
- Governments need to ramp up efforts to stop biodiversity decline in light of pessimistic reports.- Time running out on global efforts to meet biodiversity targets with 2/3 still off track- Countries to focus on the value of...
To celebrate World Humanitarian Day (19 August) and commemorate the 9th anniversary of the Sinjar Massacre (3 August), the Capacity4dev team reached out to the implementers and beneficiaries of an EU-funded project led by UN...
Q&A with Rupert Simons, Chief Executive Officer of Publish What You Fund. Publish What You Fund is a non-profit organisation that campaigns for aid transparency. “We believe that information is power and we campaign to make that...
Haiti is still reeling from a devastating earthquake, but its leaders don’t want the humanitarian relief operation to detract from the country’s long-term development objectives and the Commission has offered its support...
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