How does reforming public financial management (PFM) help to improve governance in developing countries? In both industrialised and developing countriesPFM reforms affect fundamental interests of state andgovernance. Although PFM has steadily grown in importancein development cooperation in...

2014 will be an important milestone for shaping the policy field of development cooperation in a post-2015 context. Two central events are taking place. The Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation(GPEDC) will convene for its first High-Level Meeting in April 2014 in Mexico City....

Mit zwei wichtigen Ereignissen markiert das Jahr 2014 einen Meilenstein in der Ausgestaltung des Politikfelds Entwicklungszusammenarbeit nach 2015: Im April findet in Mexiko-Stadt das erste hochrangige Treffen der Globalen Partnerschaft für wirksame Entwicklungskooperation (GPEDC) statt, und im...

This edited volume provides an assessment of an increasingly fragmented aid system. Development cooperation is fundamentally changing its character in the wake of global economic and political transformations and an ongoing debate about what constitutes, and how best to achieve, global...

Changes in the financing of United Nations development cooperation (UN-DC) are gradually eroding the multilateral character of UN development aid. Two trends have become clear over the past 15 years. First, donors have more than doubled their financial contributions for UN development...

No longer are development agendas framed primarily bytraditional aid structures: the post-2015 agenda will involve not just governments, but also the private sector, civil society and individuals. The High-Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda has coined the phrase of a “global...

Die Finanzierung der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit der Vereinten Nationen (VN-EZ) ist einem grundsätzlichen Wandel unterworfen, in dessen Folge der multilaterale Charakter der VN-EZ sukzessive verloren zu gehen droht. Zwei Trends sind für die letzten 15 Jahre kennzeichnend: Zum einen haben die...