New Zealand Aid Tools References 

SWAps | Sector Wide Approaches

References

Acknowledgements

In the preparation of this guideline, information and ideas have been gleaned from the guidelines of a number of other Agencies. NZAID would particularly like to acknowledge the valuable contributions of the following documents: AusAID Activity Management Guidelines, EC Project Cycle Management Guidelines and DFID Tools for Development.

Further Reading

There is a wealth of resources available on sector-wide approaches. See below some selected resources, both internal and external.

  • CIDA. Operational guide on direct budget support and pooled funding to recipient countries. May 2005.
  • European Commission. Good practice note on providing support to sector programmes. January 2005.
  • Harrison, Myra. Sector-wide approaches: What challenges and whose opportunities? PNG SWAp Forum, Madang, PNG, February 2006.
  • Harrison, Myra. Progress and experience in the Solomon Islands education SWApMount Hagen, PNG, June 2006.
  • Institute for Health Sector Development. Sector-wide approaches in education. August 2003.
  • Lexow, Janne. The role of civil society organizations in Zambia’s Basic Education Sub-Sector Investment Programme. Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, April 2003.
  • Netherlands Development Organisation (SNV). The sector-wide approach: Organising principle for bilateral development cooperation. 2004.
  • OECD-DAC. Harmonising donor practices for effective aid delivery. Volume 2: Good practices in budget support, sector-wide approaches and capacity building in public financial management. 2005. DCD/DAC/EFF(2005)2/REV1.
  • Walford, Veronica. Developing sector-wide approaches in the health sector. DfID, October 1998.
  • Ward, Michael. Increasing aid effectiveness: Towards a sector-wide approach in Vanuatu education. May 2005.

Web Resources

Selection of web resources on international donor practices (including aid modalities and evaluations)
Organisation Resources offered Website address
Development Gateway
  • multidonor information on progress in harmonisation
  • tracks progress on the MDB Roundtable on Operational Policies, Strategies, and Practices
 www.developmentgateway.org
Accessible Information on Development Activities
  • common access for various development organisations in a single, integrated report.
  • directory of development projects and activities(including the Pacific)
  • keywords on over 400,000 activities found in the web sites of twenty sources (donors, multilaterals, civil society).
 www.developmentgateway.org/aida
EC
  • programme to enhance effectiveness of European Commission’s assistance on poverty reduction and MDGs
  • proposals for research, summaries of research, policy recommendations
 www.ec-prep.org
European Centre for Development Policy and Management
  • information about activities
  • publications
  • Complete synthesis paper with case studies on “Pooling of Technical Assistance”. Several case studies examine TA pooling in the context of SWAps (including Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique).
 www.ecdpm.org
Capacity building for international development cooperation
  • web magazine - cum - portal intended for practitioners and policy makers who work in capacity development in international cooperation.
  • each issue focuses on a specific theme and includes interviews, events, and related web resources.
  • virtual library (by sector, tools/methods, institutional grouping or policy)
 www.capcity.org

European Forum on International Cooperation

(EU members and European NGOs)
  • references/virtual library
  • e-debates
  • articles grouped by themes e.g. governance, Pacific and Europe
  • global directory of development organisations
 www.euforic.org

Health Resource Centre

(provides support to DFID and its partners)
  • virtual library
  • papers on SWAps in the health sector (authors include Swiss Tropical Institute, CIDA, WHO, DFID)
 www.healthsystemsrc.org
IMF
  • guide on the implementation of the fiscal transparency code, (A Code of Good Practices on Fiscal Transparency)
  • questionnaire to gauge a country’s fiscal management practices relative to the standards of the code
  • list of agencies involved in standard setting
OECD
  • links to IDGs and MDGs (with data on progress)
  • Statistics/charts: international development, countries, regions, ODA levels
  • Aid Effectiveness series
  • DAC Evaluation Resource Centre
  • documents from DAC sub-committees
  • financial management
  • monitoring and evaluation
  • pre-implementation
  • all reference documents from the OECD (virtual library)

One World

(non-governmental consortium)
  • news reports
  • articles from NGOs
 www.oneworld.net

Overseas Development Institute

(independent think tank in UK)
  • reference papers on development
  • journal
  • Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure publications
  • Country case studies
  • Results based budgeting
  • Aid instruments
 www.odi.org.uk

PARIS21 consortium (UN, OECD, World Bank, IMF and EC)

(Consortium founded to boost statistical capabilities, especially in developing countries)
  • newsletter
  • calendar of events (workshops)
 www.paris21.org

SiDA

(Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency)
  • evaluation reports
  • policies and newsletters
 www.sida.se

Strategic Partnership with Africa

(WB, African Devt Bank, UNDP, Economic Commission for Africa)
  • reports
  • news
  • pilot studies info
  • members component
 www.spa-psa.org
World Bank
  • Topics in development
  • Global Development Learning Network
  • Publications
 http://www.worldbank.org

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