Aid Reform research and reports
- Harvesting data
- What can 10 years of official development assistance data tell us about US international agricultural development?
- Reforms put foreign aid to work fighting corruption and waste
- USAID is changing the way it implements US foreign aid programs to put local actors in the driver's seat.
- The politics of partnership: How donors manage risk while letting recipients lead their own development
- This paper provides recommendations for the US government as it continues grappling with ways of improving foreign aid, taking lessons from successful donor partnerships with recipient countries.
- Capacity: Helping countries lead
- In trying to improve US foreign aid, Oxfam America believes that we must listen to the people who know aid best: those who receive and deliver aid.
- Information: Let countries know what donors are doing
- In trying to improve US foreign aid, Oxfam America believes that we must listen to the people who know aid best: those who receive and deliver aid.
- Ownership in practice: The key to smart development
- Countries should provide foreign aid in ways that strengthen the voice of poor people and the responsiveness of the state.
- Field report from Cambodia
- Smart Development in Practice series
- Field Report from Southern Sudan
- Smart Development in Practice Series
- The White Oak Recommendations on Effective Global Development in the US National Interest
- Failing the Cardozo test
- Why US foreign assistance legislation needs a fresh start
- Field report from Afghanistan
- Smart Development in Practice series
- Field Report from Mozambique
- Smart Development in Practice Series
- From Poverty to Power
- For the US to become a global leader in smart development, it should focus on strengthening responsible and effective states and helping active citizens to foster equitable economic growth through their own efforts.
- Field Report from El Salvador
- Smart Development in Practice Series
- Perceptions of Poverty from the "Poor," Conceptions of Poverty from the "Poor"
- This executive summary presents the broader lessons from APPPA's findings and documents a sample of the vast selection of personal understandings of poverty from people living in Afghanistan. By providing these first-hand perspectives, the APPPA aims to contribute to increasingly relevant, effective poverty reduction projects.
- Falling Short
- The prospects for peace in Afghanistan are being undermined because Western countries are failing to deliver on their promises of aid to the tune of $10 billion and because aid going to the country is used ineffectively, according to this report by ACBAR, an alliance international aid agencies--including Oxfam--working in Afghanistan.
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