Content update - Aid Effectiveness

1. Overseas Development Institute vacancy: Research Fellow/Programme Leader Aid and Public Finance
2. Monitoring & Evaluation: Assessing the impact of ICTs in development efforts
3. $1.5 Million in July Grants -Global Fund for Women
4. MDG Atlas
5. United Nations Good Works
6. First-aid for aid
7. How to help UK aid
8. World Bank Researchers Upbeat on Africa
9. Nigeria: World Bank - Country Still Unstable
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1. Overseas Development Institute vacancy: Research Fellow/Programme Leader Aid and Public Finance http://topics.developmentgateway.org/aideffectiveness/rc/ItemDetail.do~1107950?intcmp=700
Research Fellow/Programme Leader
Aid and Public Finance

(Ref: PPPG/04/07)

You will lead ODIs programme of research, policy advice and public affairs on aid and on public finance. ODIs successful team on these topics is at the leading edge of international ...
Contributed by Laura Jarque on 10 July, 2007

2. Monitoring & Evaluation: Assessing the impact of ICTs in development efforts http://topics.developmentgateway.org/aideffectiveness/rc/ItemDetail.do~1107980?intcmp=700
infoDev, a non-governmental program sponsored by a consortium of donors and hosted by the World Bank, makes this website available with a number of resources from its program on monitoring and evaluation of ICT programs.

Contributed by John Daly on 10 July, 2007

3. $1.5 Million in July Grants -Global Fund for Women http://topics.developmentgateway.org/aideffectiveness/rc/ItemDetail.do~1107985?intcmp=700

The Global Fund is proud to announce our summer grants of $1.5 million to 120 groups in 58 countries. In Africa we are funding women's networks tackling the HIV/AIDS epidemic and environmental degradation caused by foreign exploitation of natural resources. In ...
Contributed by Anuradha Bhattacharjee on 10 July, 2007

4. MDG Atlas
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/aideffectiveness/rc/ItemDetail.do~1108018?intcmp=700
This attractive website provides maps of accomplishments under most of the indicators defined for the eight Millennium Development Goals. The information and its display are provided by the World Bank. The site provides added data in some pull down graphs, and ...
Contributed by John Daly on 11 July, 2007

5. United Nations Good Works
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/aideffectiveness/rc/ItemDetail.do~1108021?intcmp=700
UN Good Works is a project of the U.S. Committee for UNDP, an independent non-profit organization that strives to educate the U.S. public about UNDPs role in international development, provide a forum to discuss how the United States can best provide support and ...
Contributed by John Daly on 11 July, 2007

6. First-aid for aid
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/aideffectiveness/rc/ItemDetail.do~1108064?intcmp=700
While the developed world has not yet lived up to its commitment to give 1% of its GDP to the developing South, aid flows have increased since 2000, when the pledge was renewed at the United Nations Millennium Summit. A Southern Africa Trust policy brief, Aid Effectiveness ...
Contributed by Brian Wilcox on 11 July, 2007

7. How to help UK aid
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/aideffectiveness/rc/ItemDetail.do~1108065?intcmp=700
As Tony Blair's long goodbye has finally drawn to a close and he prepares to swap the chill of Sedgefield for the sunnier climes of Jerusalem, it is apparent that he leaves behind a mountain of unfinished business on the world stage.
Contributed by Brian Wilcox on 11 July, 2007

8. World Bank Researchers Upbeat on Africa http://topics.developmentgateway.org/aideffectiveness/rc/ItemDetail.do~1108066?intcmp=700
Good governance is not the sole preserve of the richest industrialized countries but can be found around the world, a research institute at the World Bank said Tuesday.
Contributed by Brian Wilcox on 11 July, 2007

9. Nigeria: World Bank - Country Still Unstable http://topics.developmentgateway.org/aideffectiveness/rc/ItemDetail.do~1108071?intcmp=700
A new World Bank report has said Nigeria's record of political instability and major violence is yet to improve even though many African countries are making remarkable progress in the area of governance and anti-corruption.
Contributed by Brian Wilcox on 11 July, 2007