Weitzenegger's Publication Review 2009

Weitzenegger's Publication Review

Banking in Rural India
http://www.deza.admin.ch/en/Dossiers/Asia_Brief
Achievements and lessons of a 30 years Swiss engagement.

Contextualizing Conceptions of Corruption: Challenges for the International Anti-corruption Campaign
http://www.giga-hamburg.de/workingpapers
GIGA Working Paper No 115 by Malte Gephart.

Cooperating with Diaspora Communities. GTZ Guidelines for Practice
http://www2.gtz.de/dokumente/bib/gtz2009-3037en-cooperating-diaspora.pdf
This practical orientation by GTZ is based on experience gained by German DC since 2007 in its cooperation with diaspora communities in the area of their non-profit activities in the partner countries. It intends to identify preconditions for successful cooperation with diaspora communities, provide criteria for the practical design of a cooperation arrangement with diaspora communities with regard to their non-profit activities.

Creative Industries: An Engine for Growth
International Trade Forum - Issue 3/2009
http://www.tradeforum.org/news/fullstory.php/aid/1487
What are creative industries? There are differing views and much scepticism about which goods and services have been grouped into this new classification. There is no doubt, however, that modern technology has transformed delivery of services and created business models that do not charge customers, such as Google and Facebook, but which have generated huge wealth for their creators. There is no doubt either that the design industry is having a massive impact on how cultural heritage and tradition are transformed into products ranging from household goods and fashion items, to solutions for health care and new media and entertainment.

Economic Policies in G-20 and African Countries during the Global Financial Crisis
http://tinyurl.com/ygd72qw
ODI Working Paper by Dirk Willem te Velde.

Export promotion agencies revisited
http://tinyurl.com/y97s786
This World Bank paper studies the impact of today's export promotion agencies and their strategies, based on new survey data covering 103 developing and developed countries. The results suggest that on average they have a statistically significant effect on exports. The identification strategies highlight the importance of EPA services for overcoming foreign trade barriers and solving asymmetric information problems associated with exports of heterogeneous goods. There are also strong diminishing returns, suggesting that as far as export promotion agencies are concerned, small is beautiful.

Global employment trends 2010: vulnerable employment and poverty on the rise
http://tinyurl.com/ye2xsnh
The economic crisis has had a major impact throughout the world on the level of employment as well as its quality. The ILO's annual report on Global Employment Trends 2010 says the share of workers in vulnerable employment worldwide may have increased by more than 100 million in 2009, and with it global poverty. ILO Online spoke with Lawrence Jeffrey Johnson who directed the publication of the report.

Global Trends 2010: Peace – Development – Environment
http://www.globale-trends.de/home.html
This book provides concise information about major trends in peace, the world order, development, the global economy and environmental change. Global Trends 2010 also makes it clear that in parallel to ''casino capitalism”, which has sometimes spiraled out of control, fundamental power shifts, and the challenges posed by climate change, other trends are emerging which have developed over decades and are also likely to impact on future global governance.

Green policies and jobs: a double dividend?
http://tinyurl.com/y938ga3
Nearly 40 per cent of all jobs worldwide are in high carbon intensive sectors. If we want to arrest climate change, this will inevitably create an employment challenge as workers will have to move to different jobs and sectors. And it raises the question to what extent green policies can produce a double dividend, in terms of environmental and employment goals. Here are a series of questions and answers on climate change, green policies and jobs.

Incubators as Tools for Entrepreneurship Promotion in Developing Countries
http://tinyurl.com/ygx65q6
This UN WIDER paper reviews the literature on incubators in developed and developing countries. We show that the concept of incubators has evolved in time according to market and firm needs. Contemporary successful incubators are profit-oriented, provide a wide range of services, focus more on intangible business services, and employ qualified managers and support staff. By drawing lessons from country experiences we assess the appropriateness of incubators as a tool for entrepreneurship promotion in developing countries.

Latin America in 2010: Migration Policies for Development
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/13/17/44091346.pdf
OECD Policy brief

Making It: Industry for Development
http://www.makingitmagazine.net
The new quarterly magazine by the UNIDO aims to stimulate informed debate about the role of industry as a dynamic force in wealth creation and development on the one hand, and the need to ensure the environmental and social sustainability of industry on the other.

Maximising the potential of UNCAC implementation: Making use of the self-assessment checklist
http://tinyurl.com/yc63zq3
The UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) offers States Parties a unique framework to strengthen their ability to prevent and combat corruption. The self?assessment checklist, which was developed as part of the review mechanism for the Convention, is one of the few available methods for assessment for which the state provides its own information, maximising its ownership of the process. Moreover, the self?assessment checklist can have follow?on effects, bringing several potential positive outcomes as part of the corruption and broader governance assessment processes.

Most Significant Change Technique – A guide to its use
http://www.mande.co.uk/docs/MSCGuide.pdf
The most significant change (MSC) technique is a form of participatory monitoring and evaluation. It is participatory because many project stakeholders are involved both in deciding the sorts of change to be recorded and in analysing the data. It is a form of monitoring because it occurs throughout the program cycle and provides information to help people manage the program. It contributes to evaluation because it provides data on impact and outcomes that can be used to help assess the performance of the program as a whole.

Participatory Method: How to run an Evaluation Café
http://www.weitzenegger.de/cafe/index.htm
The Evaluation Café is a method for group facilitation that allows stakeholders of a project or programme to evaluate its impact in an informal brief session. The purpose of the Evaluation Café is to build and document stakeholders' views on success and impacts after a planned activity. The aim of the workshop is to clarify future expectations of strategic planning in the light of past experiences. Evaluation Café is a fast result-driven qualitative survey, seen as a participative way of focus group interview. This step-by-step guide by Karsten Weitzenegger helps you to run it successfully.

Preventing Corruption in Humanitarian Operations: A Handbook of Good Practices
http://tinyurl.com/y9ug6pe
A Handbook of Good Practices is a timely, practical guide to help aid organizations deal with corruption in day-to-day operations. When people donate money to aid agencies they expect it to reach people in need. The idea for this handbook came from the massive humanitarian response to the Asian tsunami, similar to the reaction to the earthquake in Haiti. This handbook fills that gap. It offers a menu of best practice tools for preventing and detecting corruption in humanitarian operations that includes ways to track resources, confront extortion and detect aid diversion.

Science and Innovation for Development
http://tinyurl.com/yacy29z
Professors Gordon Conway and Jeff Waage emphasise the potential of new technologies – Information and Communication Technology (ICT), nanotechnology and biotechnology – to reduce poverty.

Self-determined development vs. externally controlled aid efficiency – what kind of development strategy leads to success?
http://www.sef-bonn.org/download/publikationen/foreign_voices/foreign_voices-2009-2.pdf
SEF Paper by Eckhard Deutscher nad Yash Tandon.

Smart Toolkit for Evaluating Information Projects, Products and Services
http://smarttoolkit.net
This publication, developed by CTA (Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU) and its partners, provides methods and tools to deal with the challenges that information practitioners face in implementing their various projects, products and services. It looks at evaluation within the context of the overall project cycle, from project planning and implementation to monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment, and then at the evaluation process itself, the tools involved and examples of their application. The theme running throughout the toolkit is: participatory evaluation for learning and impact.

Strengthening Entrepreneurship and Economic Development in East Germany: Lessons from Local Approaches
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/43/48/42367462.pdf
This OECD report is written for policy-makers and entrepreneurship development practitioners. For six themes brief overviews present policy issues and challenges discussed in literature with references to the East German context. In this way, the reader can draw upon the theoretical debate around the role of public policy as well as upon lessons from East Germany when developing new policies and strategies for entrepreneurship and SME development. A synthesis of identified challenges and good practice initiatives in entrepreneurship and enterprise development from local case study areas accompanies the discussion of appropriate policy responses in selected OECD countries.

Study Finds Local Aid Management Systems Complement CRS Database
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/0/27/43908328.pdf
A study published by Development Gateway and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development concludes that the OECD Creditor Reporting System and local aid information management systems have ''distinct and important roles.'' The study compared data reported to the CRS and data collected at the country level in local management systems. Rudolphe Petras, author of the report, concludes that while the data are comparable in aggregate terms, the systems differ in purpose, coverage, and sector classifications, among other ways. Country systems, such as the Aid Management Platform, are central to managing aid flow on a day-to-day basis. CRS is the authoritative source for aggregate data useful in international comparisons and historical analysis.

Tackling the roots of poverty
http://www.inwent.org/ez/articles/166739/index.en.shtml
In the first ever ''European Report on Development” (ERD), independent researchers assess ways to overcome fragile statehood in sub-Saharan Africa. Dysfunctional institutions, protracted crises and conflicts are important obstacles to fighting poverty and fostering sustainable development. This is a complex issue, aid critics often tend to neglect.

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