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Training and co-operation to improve public policy in The Gambia
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Voices & Views
A learning event was organised in Banjul in February 2020 to accompany The Gambia in the design and implementation of its public policy. The trainers are sharing how they developed this course and the benefits of choosing delivery...
Africa
The Gambia
Development Effectiveness
Aid effectiveness
Aid modalities
+1Budget support
Budget support: Delegation perspectives
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The updated Budget Support Guidelines, introduced in October 2017, encompassed changes to the modality and a streamlining of existing procedures. Grounded in a logic of dialogue and partnership, budget support accounts for about...
Development Effectiveness
Budget support
Budget support methodology
+1Capacity Development
Updating EU budget support: Introducing 2017 guidelines
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Voices & Views
About a third of the EU’s bilateral cooperation is implemented through budget support – funds provided directly to a country’s treasury to be managed using national systems, conditional on policy dialogue and performance...
Worldwide
Budget support
Does blending work? Experts evaluate innovative EU financing for development
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Voices & Views
The financing needs of the SDGs range up to $7 trillion a year – well beyond the reach of traditional development assistance. Donors are looking at ways to leverage their resources by attracting private financing, for example...
Africa
Asia
Budget support
Private Sector
Public Private Partnerships
Views from the Field: Q&A with Johann Hesse, EU Head of Cooperation in India & Bhutan
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Voices & Views
EU bilateral assistance to India is being completed, but cooperation continues on many levels, as Johann Hesse outlines. In this wide-ranging interview the Head of EU Cooperation reflects on lessons learned and the path ahead...
Asia
Bhutan
India
Budget support
Civil Society
Food & Nutrition Security
Views from the Field: Q&A with Fiona Ramsey, EU Head of Cooperation in Cambodia
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Voices & Views
Classed as a lower middle income country, Cambodia is a growing economy that is still marked by its history, notably the Khmer Rouge period. In the first of a new monthly series of articles featuring interviews with EU Delegations...
Development Effectiveness
Joint programming
Budget support
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Primary education
Developing Financial Management Capacity in South African Municipalities – A Basis for Local Development
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Voices & Views
When you think about development challenges, a lack of trained accountants might not immediately come to mind. Yet poor public sector financial management is often at the root of patchy service delivery in other sectors, from...
Africa
South Africa
Budget support
Capacity Development
Economics & Public Finance
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Learning
Public Sector Reform & Decentralisation
Addressing Rising Inequality via Tax Reform, Infrastructure Investment and Civil Society
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Voices & Views
Zambia can sound like a success. One of sub-Saharan Africa’s fastest-growing economies – with an average annual expansion of 3% between 2004 and 2013 – it was classed by the World Bank as a lower-middle-income country in 2011.
Africa
Zambia
Asia
+3Jordan
Oceania
Papua New Guinea
Budget support
Civil Society
Economics & Public Finance
View from UNEP: Aligning the financial system with sustainable development
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Voices & Views
Estimates for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals range up to a $7 trillion a year. Where will it come from? According to two senior experts from the United Nations Environment Programme, the funds are there, and the real...
Europe
Budget support
Economics & Public Finance
Partnering with Emerging Donors
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The balance of international aid is shifting, with emerging donors contributing a growing proportion of the international development budget. The surge in investment needs careful handling to avoid gaps and overlaps, and to keep...
Africa
Asia
China
Budget support
Economics & Public Finance