The Millennium Development Goals, the aid effectiveness agenda, and global interdependence have contributed to more demand and a sense of urgency for greater public awareness and learning about these promises, and challenges, in OECD countries. Donors and practitioners could make greater use of...

Les objectifs du Millénaire pour le développement (OMD), la nécessaire efficacité des programmes d’aide et l’interdépendance mondiale ont contribué à développer la demande et le sentiment de l’urgence d’une meilleure sensibilisation et formation du public à ces promesses et à...

Avec les OMD et des ambitions renouvelées en matière d’efficacité, les bailleurs ont l’occasion d’expliquer au public ce qu’ils font pour l’aide au développement. A défaut, ils courent le risque de voir le scepticisme croissant des contribuables entamer leur soutien.

Summary of trends on public opinion and international development co-operation in OECD DAC member countries: <I>i)</I> Public support in OECD DAC member countries for helping poor countries has remained consistently high for almost two decades: there is no aid fatigue; <I>ii)</I> Donations from the public to...</i></i>

Monitoring changes in public awareness and attitudes in rich countries towards aid and other international development policy issues is extremely difficult: due to lack of systematic polling or monitoring, there is no reliable, comparable data across DAC member countries. This paper suggests a...

Decentralisation has been advocated by donors and development agencies as an important factor broadening citizen participation and improving local governance, thereby promoting poverty reduction from the bottom up. On the basis of a comprehensive review of 19 country case studies documented in...

MDGs and new aid-effectiveness targets are an opprtunity for donors to explain what they do before growing scepticism erodes taxpayer support for aid.