hearing before the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, September 18, 2008
Annotation The World Bank and international donor agencies invest substantial resources and effort in development. A continuing challenge is to ensure that assistance is provided and used as effectively as possible. This book surveys recent findings on the effectiveness of aid and the steps the Bank and other development institutions are taking to assess and improve their operations. It examines specific methods for achieving better coordination within programs and among donors and brings together recommendations on how countries and agencies can improve the administration of aid. The study concludes that five conditions are essential for aid to be effective: - Ownership by the government and participation by the affected people - Strong administrative and institutional capacity - Sound policies and good public sector management - Close coordination by donors - Improvements in aid agencies' own business practices.
... judiciary, information and communications, processes for decisionmaking,
budgeting, personnel management, and accountability. Traditional technical
assistance can be improved by avoiding supply-driven programs. Giving more
time to project preparation, avoiding overambitious projects, seeking local
participation, carefully selecting advisers and counterparts, and establishing
better supervision will help to improve the results X STRENGTHENING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF AID.
The Key to Acceptance, Respect, Forgiveness, and Growth
An in-depth analysis of the nine principle personality types, based on an amazingly accurate, ancient classification system called the Enneagram. The author demonstrates how an understanding of one's strengths and weaknesses can lead to spiritual growth.
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Proposals for Better Organization and Decision Making
Focuses on international needs for science advise in the field of environment. The report offers several proposals. The audience for this report includes government officials in the U.S. and abroad.
EXISTING INTERNATIONAL MECHANISMS AND THE UNMET NEED How
effective are present mechanisms in environmental fields that require
international research collaboration? What more or different would be useful? It is
important to recognize the strengths and potential contributions of the
international environmental programs and organizations that have evolved over
the past two decades.9 The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) is in a central
position. The United Nations ...
How groups of people, from various educational settings worlwide, conduct research together is the subject of this book. Rather than wait for top- down policy changes in education, many practitioners are conducting research in order to implement reform from the bottom-up, the aim of this research being to progress action necessary for educational reform. The authors look at different aspects and the impact of action research on educational reform around the world, including: how do geography and philosophy affect differences on this work worldwide?; what is the political nature of groups currently taking action to improve education?; and what are the tensions between personal and instructional changes that come from participating in action research? The text also considers the effects of action research on changes in the professions including education, social work, nursing and management.
Research. Section. Editor: Melanie. Walker. Section 111 looks at the tensions
between personal and pedagogical transformation and research/development/
production. Each author speaks personally about the issues which underlie
tensions between life/theory/work/and reform. The tensions between the lifeworld
and the world of work are laid out in Chapter 12: 'Research', we suggest, is not a
technical set of specialist skills but implicit in social action and close to the ways
in which ...
Imperatives for Globalisation & Nation-building in Nigeria
Africaís New Public Policy: Imperatives for Globalisation and Nation-building provides a comprehensive analysis of globalisation and democracy, from an African perspective. It also provides policy imperatives that are aimed at seeking solutions to the myriad challenges emanating from managing the consequences of globalisation in Nigeria and other African countries. The author attempts to determine the extent to which public administration principles ñ in Nigeria in particular, and the rest of Africa in general, as well as in other parts of the developing world ñ underpin the management of the effects of globalisation within a democracy and nation building projects. Africaís New Public Policy will not only be a useful resource for public policy decision-making on globalisation issues, but it will also serve as a credible reference material for public sector practitioners, scholars in international relations, as well as officials involved in the diplomatic work environment. It also includes a comparative analysis on how Nigeria and South Africa have handled some of the globalisation and democratisation challenges facing their respective countries under the administrations of Presidents Obasanjo and Mbeki respectively.
Africaís New Public Policy will not only be a useful resource for public policy decision-making on globalisation issues, but it will also serve as a credible reference material for public sector practitioners, scholars in international ...
The Formation of the Waqf in Third-century A.H. Ḥanafī Legal Discourse
This work presents an analysis of the earliest legal treatises on the Islamic trust, or waqf - the Ah kam al-Waaf" of Hilal al-Ray and the Ah kam al-Awqaf of al-Khassaf. This work undertakes a textual analysis of the treatises.
Ibn Abi al-Wafa', Abu Muhammad 'Abd al-Qadir. Al-Jawdhir al-Mudiyyaf Tabaqat
al-Hanafyya. 1 vols. Hyderabad: Da'irat al-Ma'arif al-Nizamiyya, 1332/1914, and
second printing, 1408/1988. Ibn 'Abidin, Muhammad Amin b. 'Umar. Rasa'il. 2
vols. Beirut: Mu'assasat Fu'ad, 1978. Ibn Abi Shayba, 'Abd Allah b. Muhammad.
Al-Musannaf. 15 vols. Bombay: al-Dar al-Salafiyya, 1403/1983. Ibn al-Athir, 'Izz al
-Dm. Al-KamilJi al-Ta'rikh. 12 vols. Beirut: Dar Sadir, 1965-67. Ibn al-Athir, Majd ...
