New aid modalities

• Child Rights Programming Handbook - Save the Children
  • This handbook aims to provide an introduction to Child Rights Programming - Save the Children's approach to the use of human rights principles and standards in its work with children, their families, carers and communities.
• Children and the PRSP in Senegal - UNICEF
  • The analysis focuses on the education, health and social protection sectors. It is based on five dimensions that are both common to all PRSPs and essential for effective strategies:
    
    - The PRSPs’ analysis of the poverty situation
    - The articulation of the strategies in the PRSPs
    - The estimation of costs and resource allocation in the PRSPs
    - The PRSPs’ implementation framework
    - The monitoring and evaluation plans in the PRSPs
• Children, the GPRS and public expenditure in Ghana - UNICEF
  • Ghana’s overarching policy framework for development has been provided by the Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy (GPRS I) for the period 2003–2005 and the Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy (GPRS II) for 2006–2009.
    
    Children’s interests have been well represented in both GPRS I and II and in related sector strategies. However, a UNICEF study has found that, despite important innovations (notably the National Health Insurance Scheme, the education capitation grant and the LEAP cash transfer programme), further policy development is required to address the financial barriers to access by the poor to health care and education.
• Children, the PRSP and public expenditure in Sierra Leone
  • Sierra Leone adopted its first Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) for the period 2005-2007 and has recently adopted a ‘second generation’ PRSP for the period through to 2012. A study by UNICEF (see box 1) has found that children’s interests are well represented in the two PRSPs, as well as in related sector strategies, although further policy development is required to address the financial barriers to accessing health care and education by the poor.
• Children in Poverty reduction strategy papers and budgets, West and Central Africa - UNICEF
  • This report is one of six produced by a regional study on children, Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and budgets in West and Central Africa. Commissioned by UNICEF’s West and Central Africa Regional Office (WCARO) and carried out by Oxford Policy Management (OPM) between November 2007 and February 2009, the study included a regional review and five country case studies on Burkina Faso, Chad, Ghana, Mauritania and Sierra Leone. This is the fi nal report of the regional review.
    
    The objective of the study was to deepen understanding of the impact on children of the PRSPs, the evolving fi scal environment and related reforms in public fi nance management (PFM) systems and aid modalities in West and Central Africa.
• Children living in poverty, A review of child poverty definitions, measurements, and policies - UNICEF
  • This report is one of six produced by a regional study on children, Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and budgets in West and Central Africa. Commissioned by UNICEF’s West and Central Africa Regional Office (WCARO) and carried out by Oxford Policy Management (OPM) between November 2007 and February 2009, the study included a regional review and five country case studies on Burkina Faso, Chad, Ghana, Mauritania and Sierra Leone. This is the fi nal report of the regional review.
    
    The objective of the study was to deepen understanding of the impact on children of the PRSPs, the evolving fi scal environment and related reforms in public fi nance management (PFM) systems and aid modalities in West and Central Africa.
• Communication from the Commission: The Future Approach to EU Budget Support to Third Countries (2011)
• Gender equality, women's empowerment and the Paris declaration on aid effectiveness: Issues brief 2 - Finding the entry points
  • The purpose of this Issues Brief is to assist programme managers and thematic advisors in donor agencies to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment within the framework of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. The approaches, questions and specific actions in this Brief are intended for use in consultation with partners to respect and reinforce the Paris principles of ownership, alignment and mutual accountability in particular.
    
    It outlines a strategic approach and entry points and questions to ask for influencing the development effectiveness agenda, in particular at country-level. In addition, a number of gender equality tools that can add value to the aid reform process are presented.
    
    This Issues Brief is one in a series of publications focussing on aid effectiveness, prepared by the DAC Network on Gender Equality.
• OECD/DAC (November 2011) Findings of the Gender Equality Module of the 2011 Paris Declaration Monitoring Survey
• Improving the prominence of child rights in poverty reduction strategy processes, Background note - ODI
  • Why do children figure so little in poverty planning? Why is there such a fragmented approach to addressing their needs and rights? How does the poor alignment of child poverty and child rights discourses contribute to this lack of coordination in poverty planning, and what are the implications for addressing these concerns in terms of influencing the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) agenda? These questions belie some important advances in the articulation of child rights within poverty processes, but represent the reality for many countries and for child rights advocates.
• Mainstreaming Children into National Poverty Strategies: A Child focused Analysis of Ethiopian Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction Programme (2002-2005) Young Lives
  • This paper assesses how the needs of children are incorporated in to Ethiopia’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper – the Ethiopian Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction Programme 2002-2005 (SDPRP). It proposes policy recommendations for the second PRSP drawn from a comparative content analysis of other countries’ PRSPs.
• OECD/DAC (November 2011) Findings of the Gender Equality Module of the 2011 Paris Declaration Monitoring Survey
  • This report is based on replies by 24 countries that chose to test the gender equality module of the 2011 Paris Declaration Monitoring Survey: Albania, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Gabon, Honduras, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Moldova, Morocco, Mozambique, Nepal, Niger, Peru, Rwanda, Togo and Zambia.
    
    It provides key findings on the application of the gender equality module.
• Raising the game mainstreaming childrens rights
  • This Briefing Paper argues that children’s rights should be mainstreamed into broader development policy debates. It outlines how the mainstreaming of children's rights requires an understanding of topics beyond a narrow focus on ‘children’s issues’, such as health and education. The paper provides a framework for the assessment of the visibility of children in policy and programming, as a guide to policy makers and practitioners looking at this area. It concludes that mechanisms are needed urgently, to increase the visibility of children in development policy dialogue, including a high-level international commission on the impacts on children of the 3-F crisis (food, financial and fuel).
• The Future Approach to EU Budget Support to Third Countries
  • In this Communication, the Commission sets out a new policy on budget support and puts forward policy proposals for an EU coordinated approach.. It aims to adapt budget support policy to the changing political and policy environment, including the Treaty of Lisbon, and to make EU budget support a more effective instrument. Member States may also consider these as recommendations as regards to their bilateral budget support, in order to achieve a coordinated approach by the EU as a whole.
• The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and the Accra Agenda for Action
  • The Paris Declaration and Accra Agenda for Action are founded on five core principles, born out of decades of experience of what works for development, and what doesn't. These principles have gained support across the development community, changing aid practice for the better: ownership, alignment, harmonisation, results, mutual accountability.
• UNICEF - Social and Economic Policy - Child Friendly Budgets for 2010 and Beyond Toward Global Economic Recovery with a human face
  • A list of documents related to child friendly budgets.