Managing aid : practices for DAC member countries /

The members of OECD's Development Assistance Committee (DAC) give almost USD 70 billion in foreign aid (development co-operation) annually. How to manage that aid for the best results is the subject of this study, based on the organisational structures and practices of 22 of the world's ma...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Laird, Michael
Corporate Author: Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económicos
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Paris : OECD, 2005
Series:DAC guidelines and reference series
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Acronyms
  • Introduction
  • 1. Managing development co-operation in the new millennium: the context, challenges and way dorward
  • 2. The legal and political foundations for development co-operation
  • 3. DAC member countries' developemnt co-operation at the dawn of the 21st century
  • 4. Sources and allocation of funds
  • 5. The overall shape of DAC member countries' development co-operation systems
  • 6. Managing development agencies: inetrnal structures and systems
  • 7. Managing human resources for development co-operation
  • 8. Implementing bilateral programmes in different partner country contexts
  • 9. Humanitarian assistance, NGO co-financing schemes and other forms of bilateral assistance
  • 10. Multilateral assistance and contributions to global funds
  • 11. Cheks and balances in development co-operation systems
  • Bibliography
  • List of boxes
  • List of tables
  • List of figures.