2010 has been an important year for Africa. It marked the 50th anniversary of independence for 17 African countries and the 10th anniversary of the Millennium Declaration. It has also been around a decade since steps toward creating the AU und NEPAD were taken. In a series of DIE Briefing...

One key challenge facing OECD-DAC donors at present is how to enlarge the community of actors committed to principles of effective aid delivery. The recently established Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation signals that global efforts to promote development goals will...

Ausländische Direktinvestitionen (Foreign Direct Investment – FDI) stellen eine immer wichtiger werdende Quelle der externen Finanzierung für Entwicklungsländer dar. Die Debatte um Entwicklungseffekte von FDI wird jedoch seit mehreren Jahrzehnten mit oft widersprüchlichen Ergebnissen...

Die sich verändernde Geberlandschaft hat in den vergangenen Jahren die Aufmerksamkeit der entwicklungspolitischen Öffentlichkeit innerhalb von OECD-DAC auf sich gezogen. China, Indien,Brasilien und andere so genannte neue Geber spielen neben den traditionellen bilateralen Gebern in Afrika eine...

Eine der größten Herausforderungen der OECD-DAC-Geber besteht derzeit darin, die Gruppe der Akteure zu erweitern, die die Grundsätze einer wirksamen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit vertreten. Die noch junge globale Partnerschaft für wirksame Entwicklungszusammenarbeit ist ein Zeichen dafür, dass...

Developed countries have pledged to provide USD 100 billion annually to developing countries to support efforts to pursue climate-friendly development and to deal with climate change effects. Although public climate finance from developed countries still falls far short of this goal, climate...

Finance to support climate change mitigation and adaptation comes from diverse sources. Coordination among the multiplicity of actors involved in finance provision and delivery has the potential to limit the duplication of efforts, lower administrative costs, and ensure that resource commitments...

Addressing the complex challenges that fragile states face is an important area for action on the international development cooperation agenda. Danish development cooperation prioritizes countries that are considered fragile states. This DIIS Working Paper provides an overview of Danish aid to...

Earmarking financial contributions for specific geographic, thematic or other priorities has emerged as an important modality for funding multilateral development organisations. Earmarking has had positive consequences, such as the mobilisation of resources for multilateral organisations and new...

The 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness provided an important framework for encouraging donor and partner countries to adapt aid management practices to make development cooperation more effective. The agenda it advanced has since lost visibility, even among aid providers that were once...