Substantial but Uneven Achievement: Selected Success When Stars Align. Public Financial Management Reforms in Sierra Leone

Tavakoli, Heidi; Cessay, Ismaila B.; Cole, Winston Percy Onipede

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“…Alternatively, successful examples of bottom-up peacebuilding also exist in former conflicted areas. Examples of these include gender-sensitive police reform in Liberia (Bacon 2017), financial management reforms in Sierra Leone (Cole 2017), and bottom-up education reform in Somalia (Cummings 2017).…”

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International Organizations and Transnational Initiatives: Vital Pieces in Peace Education

Schupp

2024

Community Change

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International organizations and transnational initiatives differ in nature, but both provide essential elements of peace education at local, regional, and global levels. This paper examines both types of organizations' roles, impact, influence, and effectiveness, looking into program outcomes, planning, and implementation. While much good comes from their work, many such efforts struggle to deal with the consequences of structural inequality and hierarchical decision-making. This leads to such efforts often ignoring the needs at the local level and seeking to implement top-down solutions. This paper argues that it is possible to improve these groups and organizations while continuing to spread peace education in areas of conflict. While they have their problems, international organizations and transnational initiatives create the scaffolding that promotes peace education and creates a culture of dialogue and tolerance.

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International Organizations and Transnational Initiatives: Vital Pieces in Peace Education

Schupp

2024

Community Change

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“…Research on aid‐supported interventions shows in multiple cases a link between the principles and better development outcomes. Case studies of aid projects and programmes point in particular to the value of local ownership in the success of interventions, with evidence across multiple sectors and countries—including, for instance, World Bank health projects in East Timor (Rosser & Bremner 2015), health and education sector projects in Zambia (Leiderer, 2015), and public financial management reform programmes in Sierra Leone (Tavakoli et al., 2017). Yet, there are gaps in knowledge about the generalizability of findings drawn from particular cases and about the overall relationship at the macro level.…”

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Do the principles of effective development co‐operation improve development outcomes? The case for clearer definitions and measurement

Gisselquist

Justino

Vaccaro

2023

Development Policy Review

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MotivationElaborated in their current form in Busan in 2011, and reiterated in Geneva in 2022, the four Principles of Effective Development Co‐operation comprise country ownership, focus on results, inclusive partnerships, and transparency and mutual accountability. Framed to guide more effective development assistance, their measurement and impact has not been systematically studied.PurposeWe ask, what do we know about adherence to the principles and better development outcomes? What can we learn about this relationship using the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co‐operation (GPEDC)'s monitoring framework?Methods and approachWe define and measure adherence to the four principles using the GPEDC framework and indicators. We then explore the association between these indicators and development outcomes (for example, economic growth and poverty) using correlation, descriptive analysis, and analysis of data quality.FindingsAcross countries, the empirical relation between the currently available GPEDC data and development outcomes is tenuous as best. Shortcomings in the data explain much of the lack of evidence. Some shortcomings could be fixed straightforwardly with adjustments to the indicators and data collection, but many relate to inherent challenges to measurement of the four principles.Policy implicationsMore precise definition of indicators of adherence to the principles, with wider coverage of countries, and with annual measurement would help —not necessarily for their instrumental value, but as much, if not more, to raise the profile of the principles themselves. The universally agreed objectives of strengthening international partnerships and cooperation, as well as of building inclusive, effective, accountable, and transparent institutions, as declared in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, are goals well worth pursuing.

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Substantial but Uneven Achievement: Selected Success When Stars Align. Public Financial Management Reforms in Sierra Leone

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International Organizations and Transnational Initiatives: Vital Pieces in Peace Education

International Organizations and Transnational Initiatives: Vital Pieces in Peace Education

Do the principles of effective development co‐operation improve development outcomes? The case for clearer definitions and measurement

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