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Programming for Democracy: A How-To Guide for Supporting Democratic Governance

Brussels: European Partnership for Democracy (EPD) (2020), 32 pp.

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Accountability to Affected Populations: A Handbook for UNICEF and Partners

UNICEF (2020), xi, 109 pp.

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Meta-Review of Evaluations of Development Assistance to Afghanistan, 2008 – 2018

Christoph Zürcher

Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) (2020), 39 pp.

"Overall, one finding stands out: the international community has repeatedly overestimated its own capacity and the capacity of its Afghan partners to bring about rapid social change. What has worked best are modest, locally embedded projects with immediate, tangible benefits. What has rarely worked ... are complex projects aimed at building capacity and changing behaviour. More specifically, interventions in basic health and education, and in improving basic livelihoods, led to results. Interventions in building capacity for the administration, or in sectors such as the rule of law or gender, rarely worked. In reading these 148 reports, one also realizes that the international aid community is often not good at learning. Monitoring and evaluation systems are weak, and have hardly improved since 2002. Back in the early 2000s, many donors pointed out that, in order to achieve meaningful and sustainable development, more time was necessary. Fifteen years later, few sustainable results have been achieved, but many donors continue to suggest that better results will still require more time. Few donors appear to have changed their fundamental strategic approach, despite the fact that their own evaluations strongly suggest that many aid programs are neither e cient nor e ective in the Afghan context. In all fairness, the Afghan context is an incredibly challenging one, as these 148 reports vividly remind us on almost every page. The situation on the ground was and still is characterized by a lack of basic security; Afghan partners in government and in civil society lack basic capacities; many entrenched political actors have little interest in real reforms. Despite these challenging conditions, there was since the early days of the international engagement in Afghanistan tremendous political pressure on development actors to rush in and to provide quick results. An additional layer of complexity was added by the fact that the international engagement was from the beginning both a civilian and a military intervention, and planners in headquarters as well as practitioners on the ground had to learn how to cope with the task of civil-military cooperation. Under such circumstances, designing e ective aid programs is a herculean task." (Introduction, page 8) more

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Grassroots Grantmaking: Embedding Participatory Approaches in Funding

Hannah Paterson

Winston Churchill Memorial Trust (2020), 73 pp.

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Afrotopia

Felwine Sarr

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2020), 175 pp.

"Noch immer wird Afrika mit Stereotypen behaftet, die Unterentwicklung und Armut hervorheben. Und noch immer werden die Perspektiven des Kontinents an westlichen Fortschrittsmaßstäben gemessen, selbst wenn sich diese längst als unbrauchbar, wenn nicht gar zerstörerisch erwiesen haben. Felwine Sa ... more

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Democratic Openings and Country Visibility: Media Attention and the Allocation of US Democracy Aid, 1975-2010

James M. Scott, Charles M. Rowling, Timothy M. Jones

Foreign Policy Analysis, volume 16, issue 3 (2020), pp. 373-396

"Late in the twentieth century, the United States embraced democracy promotion as a foreign policy priority, a central component of which involved allocating democracy aid to governments, political parties, and nongovernmental organizations around the world to support and encourage democratization. ... more

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Synthesis of Evaluations in South Sudan: Lessons Learned for Engagement in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States

Logan Cochrane

Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, volume 2, issue 1 (2020), pp. 21-34

"South Sudan is one the largest recipients of official development assistance. Given the complexity of the operational environment, there is a need to learn from the lessons gained to-date. This article seeks to enable better-informed decision making based on a synthesis from humanitarian and develo ... more

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China’s Foreign Aid: A Primer for Recipient Countries, Donors, and Aid Providers

Leah Lynch, Sharon Andersen, Tianyu Zhu

Center for Global Development (2020), 16 pp.

"Since the 1950s, Chinese foreign aid has been influenced by and linked with China’s investment, trade, and foreign policy objectives. Partly as a result, it has also been fairly opaque. However, as Chinese aid (and loans) have increased in volume and significance, and as China’s economic status ... more

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What the EU Should Do for Democracy Support in Africa: Ten Proposals for a New Strategic Initiative in Times of Polarisation

Christine Hackenesch, Julia Leininger, Karina Mross

Brussels; Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2020), 36 pp.

"Proposal 1: Bring democracy support and protection to the core of EU external action and implement this strategic priority in EU foreign relations with Africa (and worldwide). Proposal 2: Develop a new narrative and more strategic approach to democracy support in a geopolitical context where democr ... more

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Considerations for Using Data Responsibly at USAID

Mobile Solutions Technical Assistance and Research (mSTAR);FHI 360;USAID (2019), vi, 34 pp.

"This document aims to provide USAID staff and local partners with a framework for identifying and understanding risks associated with development data. It is meant as a conversation starter—to highlight important concerns and provide actionable advice—to help those who use data in development p ... more

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Participation Tools for the Pacific

Asian Development Bank (ADB) (2019), 56 pp.

"Engagement of key stakeholder groups in operations financed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) promotes good governance, transparency, innovation, responsiveness, and development effectiveness. Effective engagement of stakeholder groups, including civil society, project beneficiaries, and project- ... more

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Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary

Ashish Kothari, Arturo Escobar Ariel Salleh, Federico Demaria, Alberto Acosta (eds.)

Tulika Books;Authorsupfront (2019), 340 pp.

"Pluriverse contains over 100 essays on transformative initiatives and alternatives to the currently dominant processes of globaloized development, including its structural roots in modernity, capitalism, state domination, and masculinist values. It offers critical essays on mainstreaming solutions ... more

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Pluriverso: Un diccionario del posdesarrollo

Ashish Kothari, Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Alberto Acosta Federico Demaria

Barcelona: Icaria Editiorial (2019), 476 pp.

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Land and Conflict Prevention: How Integrated Solutions Can Help Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

Marc Baxmann, Caroline Kruckow

Bonn: FriEnt - Working Group on Peace and Development (2019), 98 pp.

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Attributing Development Impact: The Qualitative Impact Protocol (QuIP) Case Book

James Copestake, Marlies Morsink, Fiona Remnant

Practical Action Publishing (2019), xv, 275 pp.

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Routledge Handbook of South-South Relations

Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Patricia Daley (eds.)

Abingdon; New York: Routledge (2019), xxiii, 447 pp.

"This handbook critically explores diverse ways of defining 'the South' and of conceptualising and engaging with 'South-South relations.' Through 30 state-of-the-art reviews of key academic and policy debates, the handbook evaluates past, present and future opportunities and challenges of South-Sout ... more

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Routledge Handbook of NGOs and International Relations

Thomas Davies (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2019), xxvi, 658 pp.

"Offering insights from pioneering new perspectives in addition to well-established traditions of research and pioneering new perspectives, this Handbook considers the activities not only of advocacy groups in the environmental, feminist, human rights, humanitarian, and peace sectors, but also the a ... more

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Revitalizing Democracy Assistance to Counter Threats to Democratization

David Black

Washington, DC: German Marshall Fund of the United States (2019), 16 pp.

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Sida’s Handling of Suspicions of Corruption and Irregularities in International Development Co-Operation

Stockholm: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2019), 15 pp.

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Louder Than Words? Connecting the Dots of European Democracy Support

Brussels: European Partnership for Democracy (EPD) (2019), 127 pp.

"European support for democracy is at a crossroads. The next decade will have a major bearing on what democracy means for the European Union (EU) at a time of increasing awareness of fundamental technological change, climate risks, demographic adjustment and power shifts between and within continent ... more