What are the main dedicated climate funds that focus on adaptation finance, who receives the money and what kinds of adaptation projects are funded? This brief examines these issues.Key findings:The largest sources of approved funding for adaptation projects are currently the Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR) of the World Bank’s Climate Investment Funds and the Least ...» 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.
The South Asia Women’s Resilience Index: Examining the role of women in preparing for and recovering from disasters
This report discusses the findings of the South Asia Women’s Resilience Index (WRI).The WRI draws upon a range of indicators in four categories—Economic, Infrastructure, Institutional and Social—to assess the capacity of a country to adapt to and recover from quick onset events that fall outside the range of those that are normal or anticipated.Key findings:Most South Asian ...» more
Girls’ Education and Gender Equality
This literature review investigates the kind of interventions that can help expand and improve girls’ education and gender equality. All relevant literature published since 1991 was identified and systematically reviewed by a team of experts. A Theory of Change (ToC) was developed for the review which distinguishes between three kinds of interventions, namely those focusing ...» more
2013/4 Education for All Global Monitoring Report: Teaching and learning: Achieving quality for all
This Education for All (EFA) Global Monitoring Report underlines the fact that people in the most marginalised groups have continued to be denied opportunities for education over the decade. It argues for an accelerated progress in the final stages of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and proposes a robust global post-2015 education framework to tackle unfinished business ...» more
Better Value for Money: An organising framework for management and measurement of VFM indicators
This paper provides an organising framework that attempts to provide a means to better understand, express and enable judgements to be reached on Value for Money (VFM) in development programmes.The framework is based on, but evolves around the 4Es approach (Economy, Efficiency and Effectiveness and Equity). It aims to do two things: bring the dimensions of value ...» more