This Policy and Practice Note grows out of extensive consultations with countries, regional organizations, and donors and other development partners, and it is addressed primarily to high-level policymakers and decision makers within them. Its analysis and recommendations are meant to inform disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) planning across a ...» more
Library
This e-library contains more than 4500 external publications on governance, social development, conflict and humanitarian issues. It includes academic and grey literature selected for its basis in good quality research and coverage of a range of perspectives. Policy-oriented summaries of each document are provided, plus links to the full text.
Climate Security: A holistic approach to climate change, security and development
Around the world, politicians and armies of experts are coming together to consider the world’s development agenda after the Millennium Development Goals expire in 2015. The risks posed by climate change will feature highly in discussions that shape the post MDG era. Climate change is not just about rising temperatures and sea levels. It is about health, education and poverty, ...» more
10 Years after Caguán: lessons for peace in Colombia today
This report derives from a research collaboration between Georgetown University and Universidad de Los Andes Colombia which analyzes the Colombian armed conflict and the consequent peace processes through a comparative historical perspective. It examines the long history of confrontation and the consecutive attempts to restore peace in Colombia and other countries in Latin ...» more
Aid Effectiveness in Fragile States: Lessons from the First Generation of Transition Compacts
The policy report draws lessons-learned for the UN and others from the first generation of transition compacts in support of postconflict peacebuilding, focusing on case studies from Afghanistan, the DRC, Iraq, Liberia, and Timor-Leste. It finds that transition compacts can be effective but their effectiveness has been mixed. In order to improve their effectiveness the report ...» more
Beyond capacity – addressing authority and legitimacy in fragile states
This article argues that state-building represents a lengthy process whereby the state’s authority, capacity and legitimacy are forged and strengthened to enable the state to deliver across key domains. Despite the emerging policy consensus that building institutions and strengthening state legitimacy are important, donors have in practice neglected both authority and ...» more
Societal Dynamics and Fragility: Engaging Societies in Responding to Fragile Situations
Today's world is changing at breakneck speed, shaking the very foundations of many societies. Increased mobility through massive urbanization and migration allows people unprecedented access to different cultures and ideas; advanced technologies speed the pace of human interaction; the globalization of communication offers new forms of social relationships that may directly ...» more
Growth and livelihoods in fragile and conflict-affected situations
The socioeconomic impacts of war and large-scale violence are often devastating, multiple and wide- ranging, and it is with some justification that violent conflict has come to be identified over the years as a major barrier to development. Yet, although recent years have seen a marked increase in the level of interest directed towards conflict-affected situations – or, to use ...» more
Guidance for Supporting State-Building in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States: A Tool-Kit
The challenges facing situations of fragility and conflict are daunting. The 2011 World Development Report (WDR) on Conflict, Security and Development presented a compelling case for urgent and innovative responses to circumstances of fragility and conflict. This note is part of the Bank-wide response to operationalize the central message of the WDR: that effective and ...» more
Horizon 2025: Creative destruction in the aid industry
The global economic landscape has evolved dramatically since 2000: developing and emerging economies have been driving global growth, new sources of development finance have mushroomed and the diversification of actors, instruments and delivery mechanisms has continued. Transformations in the poverty map and new forces on the supply side of development finance are challenging ...» more
Evaluation of Transnational Programs at the IDB
This evaluation assesses IDB’s role in contributing to the coordinated solution of transnational challenges during the period 2000-2011. The evaluation found that the relevance and effectiveness of IDB’s Technical Cooperation program has been limited - in particular the Regional Public Goods program. The efficiency of the transnational Technical Cooperation program has been ...» more
Fostering Regional Integration in Africa: An Evaluation of the Bank’s Multinational Operations, 2000-2010
,p>This evaluation assesses: (a) the relevance and consistency of the Bank’s strategic and operational framework for fostering regional integration; and (b) the relevance, efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability of the Bank’s multinational operations (MOs). It discusses the key factors of performance for MOs, the Bank’s organisational effectiveness, and it makes ...» more
Trade and Gender: Advances in the Process of Gender Mainstreaming in Trade Operations
This technical note presents the work done under the Trade and Gender Initiative led by the Integration and Trade Sector (INT) of the Inter American Development Bank. The technical note emphasizes the process of incorporating a gender perspective into trade operations conducted by the Bank and in knowledge generation in the trade and gender area. INT’s work in the trade and ...» more
Region Level Evaluation. Caribbean Region. Final Report. Volume I: Main Report
This report presents the findings of the 2011 Regional Level Evaluation of the Commission of the European Union’s cooperation with the Caribbean Region. The evaluation was carried out to provide meaningful feedback to the Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS), but also to the general public, on the results achieved by the Commission’s co-operation ...» more
Making public sector reforms work : political and economic contexts, incentives, and strategies
Supporting effective public sector reform is a major challenge that the World Bank and other agencies and stakeholders have been grappling with. It is increasingly recognized that political economy factors play a crucial role. However, beyond this broad proposition, specific questions arise: What country contexts are more/less propitious for public sector reforms and what ...» more
A Congolese community-based health program for survivors of sexual violence. Conflict and Health
Many survivors of gender based violence (GBV) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) report barriers to access health services including, distance, cost, lack of trained providers and fear of stigma. In 2004, Foundation RamaLevina (FORAL), a Congolese health and social non-governmental organization, started a mobile health program for vulnerable women and men to address the ...» more
Ending the deadlock: Towards a new vision of peace in eastern DRC
The main objective of this report is to draw on International Alert’s decade of peacebuilding experience in DRC, to propose a new approach towards laying the foundations of lasting peace. The report demonstrates how the conflicts devastating the east of the country are rooted in Congolese history and are political in nature. They mainly relate to the distribution of power and ...» more
Protecting Communities in the DRC: Understanding gender dynamics and empowering women and men
Political and social transformation rarely happens without some form of conflict, and conflict in itself is not necessarily negative until it turns to violence. Understanding how gender roles interact with the context is key to contributing to positive change that is sustainable. Not understanding this, or adopting a simplistic approach, risks doing significant harm. ...» more
Providing access to economic assets for girls and young women in low-and-lower middle income countries: a systematic review of the evidence
What is the impact of economic asset-building and/or protecting programmes for girls in low- and lower-middle income countries, and fragile states? What are girls’ and young women's views and experiences of participating in such programmes? This systematic review finds that a modest but growing evidence base suggests that providing girls and women with access to economic assets ...» more
Peoples’ views of taxation in Africa: A review of research on determinants of tax compliance
What are the key determinants of taxpayer compliance? And which features of citizen state relations govern attitudes and behaviour regarding taxation? This paper examines the analytical foundation, methodological approaches and key findings of available empirical literature on taxpayer behaviour in Africa. Understanding how citizens perceive and experience taxation may provide ...» more
In the Eyes of Others: How People in Crises Perceive Humanitarian Aid
This publication presents the results of an evaluation of how the work of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is perceived in volatile environments. The study attempted to understand how MSF’s image is constructed and how it is conveyed to audiences outside the organisation by using a multifaceted methodology: literature reviews, questionnaires, discussion ...» more
