Publications
21 May 2012
Issue 9 - May 2012
ECDPM
Approaching fragile states from a complexity perspective by Frauke de Weijer
Fragility, as a concept that refers to weak institutional capacity, poor governance, political instability, and frequently conflict, has moved up the international agenda in recent years. As none of the ‘fragile states’ have reached any of the MDGs, these are typically the countries where developmental progress has shown persistent weakness or failure.
INHEA
The International Network for Higher Education in African (INHEA) has a redesigned webpage.
INHEA provides key resources on African higher education free to faculty, graduate students, and practitioners. It lists new books, initiatives, and additional resources about developments in higher education throughout the region.
InterAction
Guidance Note #2: Linking Monitoring and Evaluation to Impact Evaluation
This is the second guidance note in a four-part series of notes related to impact evaluation developed by InterAction with financial support from the Rockefeller Foundation. This second guidance note, Linking Monitoring and Evaluation to Impact Evaluation, illustrates the relationship between routine M&E and impact evaluation – in particular, how both monitoring and evaluation activities can support meaningful and valid impact evaluation.
OECD
Managing Risks in Fragile and Transitional Contexts. The Price of Success?
This publication provides the evidence to help donors understand how to balance risks and opportunities in order to protect the integrity of their institutions while delivering better results to those who need it most.
Improving Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems. OECD Conference Proceedings
This conference proceedings from the OECD Conference on Agricultural Knowledge Systems (AKS), held in Paris, on 15-17 June 2011. The conference considered developments in institutional frameworks, public and private roles and partnerships, regulatory frameworks conducive to innovation, the adoption of innovations and technology transfers, and the responsiveness of AKS to broader policy objectives.
Geographical Distribution of Financial Flows to Developing Countries 2012. Disbursements, Commitments, Country Indicators.
This publication provides comprehensive data on the volume, origin and types of aid and other resource flows to around 150 developing countries. The data show each country's intake of official development assistance and well as other official and private funds from members of the Development Assistance Committee of the OECD, multilateral agencies and other key donors. Key development indicators are given for reference.
Monitoring and Evaluation for Adaptation: Lessons from Development Co-operation Agencies, Lamhauge, N., E. Lanzi and S. Agrawala (2012); OECD Environment Working Papers, No. 38
This working paper is the first empirical assessment of M&E frameworks used by development co-operation agencies for projects and programmes with adaptation-specific or adaptation-related components. It has analysed 106 project documents across six bilateral development agencies.
OECD/World Bank
Promoting Inclusive Growth, 2012
This volume includes the proceedings of a conference co-hosted by the OECD and the World Bank that took place in Paris on 24-25 March 2011. The conference provided an opportunity for policymakers, academics, practitioners and members of civil society to discuss policy options for making growth more inclusive. Policy issues highlighted: financial development, social policies, innovation, regulation and political economy issues.
The World Bank
Putting Higher Education to Work: Skills and Research for Growth in East Asia
This report takes a comprehensive look at higher education in the region to explore how higher education systems can produce the type of skills and kind of commercially applicable research that will drive growth.
Self-evaluation of the Independent Evaluation Group
The World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) recently published a self-evaluation of its activities. Besides representing current thinking among evaluation experts at the World Bank, it also more broadly reflects some of the strengths and gaps in the approaches that evaluators use to assess and learn from the performance of the international institutions with which they work.
Are Countries' Investments in Tertiary Education Making a Difference? Report No. 53, South Asia Human Development Sector, February 2012
This paper is exploring the impact of various measures of spending on a range of outcomes of tertiary education, using cross-country comparisons. It finds that public expenditures are only loosely linked with outcomes in terms of access and participation, but that they are positively associated with proxies of quality. This exploratory research shows very different patterns for the group of high-income countries and less developed countries.
UK Higher Education International Unit
International Focus. Africa: A new horizon for HE? Issue 79, April 2012
