Weitzenegger's Publication Review 2009

Weitzenegger's Publication Review

Agricultural Diversification for the Poor - Guidelines for Practitioners.
http://tinyurl.com/2vs2wx8
This World Bank study treats diversification as a differentiated form of agricultural development and recognizes its role to spur sustainable growth in the rural sector. The principle purpose of this study is to outline practical ways for implementing diversification activities. Throughout the paper, emphasis is particularly on how the diversification process can be made pro-poor with minimum risk involved. Paper concludes with a list of key investment areas to assist diversification.

Assets, Shocks, and Poverty Traps in Rural Mozambique
http://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_01.c.363264.de/dp1073.pdf
Using a micro-level approach to poverty traps, this paper explores welfare dynamics among households in post-war rural Mozambique. The analysis by Lena Giesbert and Kati Schindler shows that shocks and household coping behavior help to explain the observed poverty dynamics.

Beyond Development Aid
http://europafrica.net/2010/11/09/beyond-development-aid/
Publication of the Europe-Africa Policy Research Network (EARN) that intends to address the EU-Africa political dialogue on global issues of common concern.

Brazil: An Emerging Aid Player
http://tinyurl.com/18r
This ODI Briefing Paper reviews the institutional set up of Brazil's aid programme and the implications of its rise in the aid scene.

Challenges in Impact Evaluation of Development Interventions: Opportunities and Limitations for Randomized Experiments
http://www.ua.ac.be/download.aspx?c=.IOB&n=83953&ct=77447&e=249703
Institute of Development Policy and Management (IOB study by Jos Vaessen

Combating Poverty and Inequality: Structural Change, Social Policy and Politics
http://tinyurl.com/25rkvpw
This UNRISD Flagship Report argues that this is because many current approaches to reducing poverty and inequality fail to consider key institutional, policy and political dimensions that may be both causes of poverty and inequality, and obstacles to their reduction. Moreover, when a substantial proportion of a country’s population is poor, it makes little sense to detach poverty from the dynamics of development. For countries that have been successful in increasing the well-being of the majority of their populations over relatively short periods of time, the report shows, progress has occurred principally through state-directed strategies that combine economic development objectives with active social policies and forms of politics that elevate the interests of the poor in public policy.

Evaluating Transportation Economic Development Impacts
http://www.vtpi.org/econ_dev.pdf
Understanding How Transport Policy and Planning Decisions Affect Employment, Incomes, Productivity, Competitiveness, Property Values and Tax Revenues. By Todd Litman, Victoria Transport Policy Institute

Evaluation Study on ADB Assistance for Public-Private Partnerships in Infrastructure Development
http://www.adb.org/Documents/SES/REG/SES-OTH-2009-31/default.asp
Public-private partnerships have been gaining recognition in many of the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) developing member countries as an important means of mobilizing private sector capital and expertise for infrastructure investments and service provision. This study evaluates the performance of ADB's public and private sector operations in support of public-private partnerships in the power, transport, and water sectors; and the development of related policy, legal, regulatory, and institutional frameworks.

Global Employment Trends for Youth
http://www.ilo.org/empelm/what/pubs/lang--en/docName--WCMS_143349/index.htm
International Labour Organization (ILO), Report 2010

Global Report on Migration
http://cloud1.gdnet.org/cms.php?id=research_paper_abstract&research_paper_id=16338
This report captures the main results from Development on the Move: Measuring and Optimising Migration’s Economic and Social Impacts, a joint project of the Global Development Network (GDN) and the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr). The ground-breaking global research project, supported by a consortium of international donors, has gathered new, comparative qualitative and quantitative data about migration’s development impacts.

IFAD Rural Poverty Report 2011: Global food production must increase by 70 per cent
http://tinyurl.com/33hct5m
The Rural Poverty Report 2011, released on 6 December 2010 by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), predicts that global food production will have to increase by 70 percent in order to feed the expected world population of 9 billion by 2050. Boosting the agricultural sector in developing countries is therefore the key to combating world poverty in the coming decades, it stresses. Source: EuroStep.

Is a Financial Transaction Tax a Good Idea? A Review of the Evidence
http://tinyurl.com/2dootvw
The Institute of Development Studies has undertaken a comprehensive review of the feasibility of financial transaction taxes (FTTs). We find that, worldwide, a financial transaction tax on foreign exchange transactions could raise Us$26 billion. In the UK alone it could raise US$11 billion (£7.7 billion), roughly the same as the entire UK aid budget. Such a tax would be most effective if implemented by the key financial centres around the world, but a currency transaction tax could be implemented by individual countries. However, an FTT is unlikely to reduce market volatility as claimed by some campaigners.

Multilateral Resource Allocation: Best Practice Approaches
http://tinyurl.com/23cxnns
ODI Project Briefings 51 by Tony Faint and Deborah Johnson.

OECD Studies on SMEs and Entrepreneurship
High-Growth Enterprises: What Governments Can Do to Make a Difference
http://tinyurl.com/37sskrm
This report presents reports from 15 countries that provide interesting insights into the operations of and challenges faced by high-growth enterprises as well as a policy survey of 340 programmes in 24 countries.

Remittances, Value Added Tax and Tax Revenue in Developing Countries
http://www.cerdi.org/production/show/id/1208
Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Developpement International (CERDI) paper by CE Eberke.

Report denounces humanitarian aid politicisation, lauds EU
http://tinyurl.com/3yacltv
A report by the Good Humanitarian Donorship (GHD) initiative, an informal donor network, ranks humanitarian aid donors according to their aid effectiveness, as rated by 475 senior representatives of aid organisations. The report finds that while bilateral aid from EU member states is becoming increasingly driven by politics, multilateral EU aid distributed by the European Commission was ranked 6th place out of 37. The only EU member states judged to deliver more effective aid were Denmark, Ireland and Sweden. Source: EurActiv

Stemming girls' chronic poverty
http://tinyurl.com/39932cb
A new report from the Chronic Poverty Research Centre investigates how to catalyse development change by including girls (and boys) more prominently in development agendas.

Sustainable management in emerging countries
http://tinyurl.com/2w9rfjj
An analysis of German companies’ activities in India.

The Concept of Corporate Social Responsibility: a Philosophical Approach
http://repub.eur.nl/resource/pub_21243/index.html
International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University (ISS) Research Paper 508 by Adele Lebano.

The Failure of Cross-border Financial Firms: New Thinking in the Aftermath of the Financial Crisis
http://networkideas.org/featart/nov2010/fa04_Andrew_Cornford.htm
The development of rules for handling insolvencies of financial and non-financial firms with operations in a number of countries (cross-border insolvencies) is a long-standing item on the international regulatory agenda. In this context, the author Andrew Cornford analyses the measures proposed in various reports to address the problems associated with systemically important financial institutions.

The Financial Crisis and Lower Income Countries
http://www.diis.dk/sw101807.asp
Danish Institute for International Studies Working Paper 2010:35 by Sam Jones.

The future of EC trade policy 2010-2015
http://ec.europa.eu/trade/trade-growth-and-jobs/
In its discussion paper "Trade, Growth and World Affairs", the Commission analyses how trade is an engine for economic growth and job creation. It proposes a strategy to reduce trade barriers, to open global markets and to get a fair deal for European businesses. The overarching aim is to take a more assertive approach to ensure the benefits of trade reach European citizens.

The G20 as a Development Opportunity for the European Union
http://www.edc2020.eu/96.0.html
EDC2020 Policy Brief by Madeline R. Young, FRIDE, Opinion No. 6 - November 2010.

The Impact of the Crisis on Employment and the Role of Labour Market Institutions
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inst/download/dp202_2010.pdf
International Labour Organization (ILO) Publication byWerner Eichhorst et al.

Trends and issues in international development cooperation
http://poldev.revues.org/142
Emerging economies and private donors provide an increasing proportion of aid. Progress has been made in implementing the 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness in a few fields, such as untying aid, but the results do not meet expectations. The approach, too often purely technical, omits taking fully into consideration the political dimension which strongly affects aid effectiveness. The issue of overall policy coherence receives renewed attention at a time when the debate about climate change is leading development agencies to reconsider goals and strategies. Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) study by Gérard Perroulaz.

10 key issues for international development
http://tinyurl.com/2uukj4g
Alex Evans gave this presentation on global challenges to development for the new UK International Development Select Committee.

ADB Assistance for Public-Private Partnerships in Infrastructure Development
http://www.adb.org/Documents/SES/REG/SES-OTH-2009-31/default.asp
This first evaluation study on ADB assistance to public-private partnerships (PPPs) in infrastructure development covers two decades (1988-2008) of related ADB operations. It intends to provide inputs to formulating strategies and business plans for implementing further ADB support to PPP operations in developing member countries.

An Approach to Impact-Oriented Programming, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
http://tinyurl.com/37vv8lk
The objectives of this CONCORD Discussion Paper are to generate a common understanding among European humanitarian and development CSOs of the concept of impact; to provide pointers for European CSOs to enhance their approaches and systems for impact-oriented programming, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, including by providing recommendations for CSOs and EU donors; to provide recommendations to the European Commission (EC) and the member states of the European Union (EU); and to feed into the international debate on how to improve aid for enhanced development impact.

Beyond Institutions
http://tinyurl.com/2wzyj4d
Institutions and organizations in the politics and economics of poverty reduction – a thematic synthesis of research evidence. Published by the DFID-funded Research Programme Consortium on Improving Institutions for Pro-Poor Growth (IPPG), September 2010.

China and India — The New Growth Engines of the Global Economy?
http://tinyurl.com/2c2abh3
While the leading industrial nations are still recovering from the consequences of the global financial crisis, China and India are already boasting very high growth rates again. In the third quarter of 2009 China’s economic growth was 10.7 percent; India’s was 7.9 percent. Both countries are again being portrayed as the growth engines of the global economy. GIGA Focus International Edition (4/2010).

Deeper Integration: What Effects On Trade?
http://wwwuser.gwdg.de/~fjohann/paper/DB204.pdf
Ibero-Amerika Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Diskussionsbeitrag 204, Authors: Martin Clever and Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso.

Economic diversification in Africa - A review of selected countries.
http://tinyurl.com/2vb8bxq
New Partnership for Africa's Deveopment (NEPAD), OECD and UN Office of the Special Adviser on Africa (OSAA) paper, October 2010.

Effective state-business relations, industrial policy and economic growth.
http://tinyurl.com/3x9xqns
Improving Institutions for Pro-Poor Growth (IPPG) briefing paper, by Dirk Willem te Velde et al., September 2010.

Global Poverty and the new Bottom Billion: Three-Quarters of the World’s Poor Live in Middle-Income Countries
http://tinyurl.com/33fjh7u
This paper argues that the global poverty problem has changed because most of the world's poor no longer live in poor countries meaning low-income countries (LICs). Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Working Paper, Author: Andy Sumner.

Governments, Non-State Actors and Trade Policy-Making: Negotiating Preferentially or Multilaterally?
http://www.wto.org/english/res_e/publications_e/gov_2010_e.htm
This new book from the WTO analyses the approaches and impact of domestic non-state actors (NSAs) in eight developing countries on national government’s decisions on whether to conduct international trade cooperation via preferential trade agreements or at the WTO. The book provides information on the role of NSAs in national policy formulation and the ‘optimum’ modes of cooperation with governments. It also analyses what these findings says about the drivers of multilateralism and regionalism/preferentialism in terms of domestic political and economic interests.

GTZ Reference Guide for Local/Regional Economic Development (LRED) practitioners
http://www2.gtz.de/wbf/lred/news1.asp
With approx. 140 webpages, nearly 50 charts and pictures, 190 documents and quite a number of hyperlinked tools, case studies and podcasts it is already a vivid knowledge compilation on LRED. This LRED-Reference Guide is a living document, subject to changes and supplements. Feedback, hints and materials to improve this website are always welcome! The use of the LRED-Reference Guide is free of charge. However, registration is necessary.

How post-conflict countries can attract and benefit from FDI
http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/diaepcb200915_en.pdf
Lessons from Croatia and Mozambique. It focuses on the successful experiences of Croatia and Mozambique in attracting FDI and using it to enhance economic growth and stability. The two nations' investment performances have helped entrench peace since the countries emerged from their respective conflicts in the early 1990s.

Integrating poverty and social analysis into Aid for Trade programmes
http://tinyurl.com/39hbk7u
Trade facilitation and trade-related infrastructure. Overseas Development Institute (ODI) Tips and Tools for Aid for Trade, inclusive growth and poverty reduction brief 3, by Kate Higgins and Liz Turner.

Making the most of agricultural investment
http://www.iied.org/pubs/pdfs/12566IIED.pdf
A survey of business models that provide opportunities for smallholders

Migration Industry and Markets for Managing Migration
http://tinyurl.com/38j6och
Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS); New Research Network.

OECD: Innovation and the Development Agenda
http://tinyurl.com/3748xxx
Innovation drives long-term economic growth. It has a crucial role to play as global economies recover from the current financial crisis. This book examines the role of innovation in developing countries, with a focus on Africa.

On the Economics of Regional Powers: Comparing China, India, Brazil, and South Africa
http://www.giga-hamburg.de/dl/download.php?d=/content/publikationen/pdf/wp145_kappel.pdf
German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), GIGA Working Paper no. 145, Author: Robert Kappel.

Rebalancing Local Economies: Widening economic opportunities for people in deprived communities
http://www.ippr.org/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=779
A major new study by ippr north, working with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and The Northern Way, shows 57 per cent of the poorest neighbourhoods in the North of England had above-average improvement to employment prior to the recession.

Rethinking the (European) Foundations of Sub-Saharan African Regional Economic Integration
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/18/59/46013902.pdf
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Author: Peter Draper.

SME-Development, Business and Investment Climate, Entrepreneurship, Industrial Policy, Innovation and Technology
http://browse.oecdbookshop.org/oecd/pdfs/browseit/8510021E.PDF
This OECD book explores how government policy can boost innovation by improving the environment for entrepreneurship and small firm development and increasing the innovative capacities of enterprises. Policy findings and recommendations are presented in three key areas: embedding firms in knowledge flows; developing entrepreneurship skills; and social entrepreneurship. In addition, country notes present statistics and policy data on SMEs, entrepreneurship and innovation for 40 economies.

The Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA): Towards a new era for Caribbean trade.
http://www.cigionline.org/sites/default/files/Caribbean_Paper%2010.pdf
The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) caribbean paper no. 10, by D. Thorburn, J. Rapley, D. King and C. Campbell, September 2010.

The Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on the Budgets of Low-Income Countries
http://tinyurl.com/39hbk7u
Oxfam research report, by Katerina Kyrili and Matthew Martin, July 2010.

The Millennium Declaration, The MDGs and the ILO Decent Work Agenda
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/pardev/download/mdg/2010/overview2010.pdf
International Labour Organization (ILO), Publication.

The New Bottom Billion and the MDGs – A Plan of Action
http://tinyurl.com/23qztxb
Popular understandings of global poverty are based on the false premise that poor people all live in poor countries. In fact, new estimates by the Institute of Development Studies place three-quarters of the world's 1.3bn or so poor people in middle-income countries (MICs) such as India, China, Nigeria, Pakistan and Indonesia, and only a quarter live in low-income countries (LICs), largely in Africa. This is a dramatic change from just two decades ago when 93 per cent of poor people lived in low-income countries. This change has major implications for both the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and global strategies for poverty reduction beyond 2015. IDS In Focus Policy Briefing 16.

Too Many Resources or Too Few? What Drives International Conflicts?
http://tinyurl.com/2wwex36
GIGA Working Paper No 147 by Georg Strüver.
The findings, although preliminary, suggest that resource scarcity may play a less prominent role in the aggression of belligerent countries than is often assumed and that the existence of large oil deposits and high resource-rent incomes are better predictors of conflict involvement.

Values, Ethics and Morality in Development
http://www.iss.nl/News/Values-ethics-and-morality-in-Development
Special Virtual Issue of Journal of International Development, Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands (ISS).

What is the role of donors in budgetary execution?
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/29/55/46184537.pdf?contentId=46184572
Budget execution is an important element of infrastructure development and in non-OECD countries, external resources, including donor funding, remain critical. This presentation by Laura Recuero Virto and Sara Fyson, economists at the OECD, gives us some tips on the sustainability of the resources used to finance development.

Why is it important to consider governance issues in sector operations and how should aid practitioners go about this?
http://tinyurl.com/262abec
Dominique Dellicour of EuropeAid’s Governance, Security, Justice, Human Rights and Gender unit introduces the EC policy document ‘Analysing and Addressing Governance in Sector Operations’ in a video interview http://tinyurl.com/233csgp. ‘‘Democratic governance is more and more at the centre stage of sector operations” she says adding that ‘‘There was more and more realisation that although technical and economic aspects are important in defining a sector operation, the sector governance set up and the related politics do matter substantially.” In a related video, ECDPM’s Jean Bossuyt provides an inform ative and instructive presentation on the practicalities of putting the EC’s sector governance approach into practice and considers that cultural understanding is imperative to making sensible, informed decisions. Source: ECDPM.

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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