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Program-for-Results: An Innovative New Financing Instrument of the World Bank

Submitted by Paul Bermingham on Tue, 01/10/2012 - 08:00

Paul Bermingham, Director of the Bank department that is developing Program-for-Results, talks about the World Bank’s proposal to introduce a new financing instrument for its client countries—its first in 30 years.

Is South-South Cooperation Really Different? New Development Partners in Busan

Submitted by Philip E. Karp on Tue, 12/06/2011 - 15:45
Much of the discussion at the HLF-4 in Busan last week, as well in the months leading up to the event, was focused on forging consensus around a new global development cooperation partnership framework that would accommodate the interests and unique cooperation modalities of new partners such as China, Brazil, and India. The agreement by these and other new development actors to sign on to the HLF-4 Outcome Document is an important achievement and ke

Aid architecture debate surfaces new ideas, appetite for dialogue

Submitted by Axel van Trotsenburg on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 13:35

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I am flying out of Busan after a very stimulating discussion on the new aid architecture at the 4th High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness. We organized this panel discussion with the goal of learning what our development partners, particularly new partners, think about the future of aid—the challenges and opportunities.

A Stop in Cuzco on the Road to Busan: Taking Procurement Reform to HLF4 and Beyond

Submitted by Enzo de Laurentiis on Thu, 12/01/2011 - 15:35

In May 2011 a diverse and inclusive group of procurement practitioners from around the world—representing countries ranging from middle-income countries to fragile states, as well as development partners and civil society organizations—met in Cuzco, Peru, to discuss and agree on the messages to be sent to the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF4) in Busan. They signed a declaration providing important inputs to the Effective Institutions and Country Systems themes that would be discussed in Busan. Participants endorsed an important strategic direction: t

Three-way-learning. The South-South Agenda in Busan

Submitted by Han Fraeters on Thu, 12/01/2011 - 10:36

Here in Busan, at the High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, there is strong momentum around South-South Cooperation and Knowledge Exchange. The main Thematic Session on South-South, moderated by WBI Vice President Sanjay Pradhan, drew a crowd of close to 500 people. In the intense negotiations over the Busan Outcome Document, the South-South agenda is also front and center. Why?

First of all, South-South is a great way to support development. Let me give an example.

Harmonization and alignment in development assistance for health: now what?

Submitted by Cristian Baeza on Wed, 11/30/2011 - 11:10

The International Health Partnership (IHP+) has done an exceptional job the last three years in bringing together countries, donors, international financial institutions, civil society, the United Nations, and many other partners to agree on how, concretely, we would implement the principles of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness.

Moving Towards Open Development

Submitted by Sanjay Pradhan on Wed, 11/30/2011 - 11:09

As many of those gathered here in Busan, I feel very excited about the chance we have to collectively shape the way in which development is practiced.

The future of aid—and how to make it more effective

Submitted by Axel van Trotsenburg on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 14:30

I have some good and some not so good news about aid. First, the good news. The aid landscape has seen three important changes during the last decade that have had a transformative, positive effect on the very nature of aid.


One of these changes has been the increased focus on the quality of aid—especially on the results being achieved on the ground. The World Bank and IDA, the Bank’s fund for the poorest, have placed a premium on having a real impact in the work we support, and the results show.

New technology can democratise development

Submitted by Caroline Anstey on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 11:30

An old black and white photograph taken in 1944 at the Conference in Bretton Woods that gave birth to the World Bank and the IMF shows a roundtable of men in grey suits meeting to design the future multilateral system.

Embracing all forms of development cooperation

Submitted by Joachim von Amsberg on Mon, 11/28/2011 - 13:24

World Bank Aid Effectiveness ShowcaseToday, the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF-4) will open in Busan, Korea. The HLF-4 is an opportunity for the global development community to come together and showcase the results that our partner countries have been producing, and to shape the future course of the aid effectiveness agenda in a dramatically changing global development landscape.

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