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Development Approaches
This category describes the various approaches to the delivery of aid and development activities and provides useful information for users wanting to understand the appropriate context and implications of each approach.
Capacity Building
- The UNU-IAS Traditional Knowledge Initiative
- PNG capacity development showcase
- Bridgespan
- Capacity, change and performance
- Berlin statement on International development training
- Joint evaluation study of provision of technical assistance personnel: what can we learn from promising experiences?
- Capacity development in the international development context: implications for Indigenous Australia
- Technical assistance and capacity building: Timor-Leste
- Guidelines for hosting and undertaking international work and study placements
- Capacity building in public finance: an evaluation of activities in the South Pacific
- Capacity building handout: lessons learnt
- A staged approach to assess, plan and monitor capacity building
- Study on capacity, change and performance: Interim report
- Monitoring and evaluation of capacity and capacity development
- The concept of capacity
- Measuring capacities: an illustrative guide to benchmarks and indicators
- Capacity development practice note
- Capacity assessment practice note
- A brief review of 20 tools to assess institutional capacity
- The challenge of capacity development - working towards good practice
- Capacity development: why, what and how
- Organisational capacity building arena
- The Millennium Development Goals, capacity building and the role of the IMF
- Australian community development and civil society strengthening scheme (ACCESS)
- The developing of capacity
- Promoting institutional & organisational development
- Institutional & organisational development - source book of tools and techniques
Harmonisation & Alignment
- Three-Cs.net: evaluation of coordination and complementarity of European assistance to local development
- Multi-donor support to civil society
- Donor coordination and the uses of aid
- Harmonisation, alignment, results: progress report on aid effectiveness
- Incentives for harmonisation and alignment in aid agencies
- Harmonisation, alignment, results - report on progress, challenges and opportunities
- Partnerships for poverty reduction: rethinking conditionality (pdf 138kb)
- Harmonising donor policies and practices in the Pacific
- OECD-DAC Development Cooperation Report 2005
- Government of Cambodia: harmonisation with development partners
- Harmonising donor practices for effective aid delivery
Projects & Programs
- Betterplace Foundation
- ANCP Pacific Cluster Evaluation
- Community Development Snapshot Tool (CDST)
- Community Led Assessment and Planning Processes (CLAPP) Manual & Tool
- Capacity development in South Asia
- ANCP India Cluster Evaluation
- The European CommunityÂ’s development policy: Annual Report 2007
- Evaluation of general budget support
- Programmatic support: summary of evidence for increased effectiveness
- Joint evaluation of general budget support
Sector Wide Approaches
Bilateral & Multilateral Approaches
- Organisational learning: people in the process
- Organisational learning in NGOs: creating the motive, means and opportunity
- What determines the choice of aid modalities?
- Tracking development and governance in the Pacific
- ODE conditionality issues note
- The long-term strategic framework of the Asian Development Bank (2008–2020)
- Improving ADB's strategic focus and operations in India
- Emerging practices in policy-based lending
- Asian models for aid: is there a non-Western approach to development assistance?
- The Millennium Development Goals: progress in Asia and the Pacific 2007
- AusAID 2010: Director generalÂ’s blueprint
- Aid for trade: making it effective
- In the public interest: health, education and sanitation for all
- Multilateral aid effectiveness
- Connecting government: whole of government responses to AustraliaÂ’s priority challenges
- Whole of Government: does working together work?
Participatory & Related Approaches
- Participatory methods' toolkit: a practitioner's manual
- Areol, action research and evaluation on line
- Learning from the poor: findings from participatory poverty assessments in India
- Rights based approach to development and citizen participation
- Appreciative inquiry commons
- The power of participation: PRA and policy
- Rights-based approach
- Participation resources
- IDS participation, power and social change homepage
Community-Based Approaches
- Going back to country with bosses: youth participation & walking along with Elders
- A toolkit for Pacific youth: localising the Millennium Development Goals
- Last-First Networks
- From clients to citizens: Asset-based development
- Community-based development approaches
- Asset-based development
- Sustainable livelihoods approach