Other experience of Policy Practice Principals working on this topic:
Roger Riddell, Published book entitled 'Does Foreign Aid Really Work?', Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York. 510 pages. Provides an overview of the history of aid-giving, a summary of the approaches and policies of all the major donors, a comprehensive assessment of the impact of official aid, development aid provided by NGOs and emergency aid, a review of the way is provided and recommendations for changes in the way is provided and allocated in order to enhance its effectiveness. Topics include project aid, aid at the country level, technical assistance, capacity development, aid conditionality, bilateral and multilateral aid and the Tsunami. - 2007,
Alex Duncan, Prepared a paper on the effectiveness of the Board of Save the Children UK, and presented it in October 2006 at a seminar for executives and trustees of UK charities. - 2006,
Roger Riddell, Presentation on “Partnership and Accountability: new trends for NGOs” to the Board of DanchurchAid, Copenhagen. - 2005,
Tim Sheehy, Team Leader for Output-to-Purpose review of an anti-corruption programme implemented by Transparency International – Bangladesh. For a consortium of donors led by DFID. 2004. (Sheehy). - 2004,
- Paper: ‘Making Waves, Transparency International-Bangladesh, Output to Purpose Review,’ Tim Sheehy, Adam Burke, Carl-Gustav Gutberg, DFID Bangladesh, November 2004
Roger Riddell, Presentation on “NGO Accountability: Trends, Issues and Challenges”. Presentation to the Annual General Meeting of the Board of the Association of European Protestant Agencies. Copenhagen. - 2004,
Roger Riddell, International Director of Christian Aid, working as a senior member of the Directorate on all aspects of corporate governance. Direct responsibility for overseeing the implementation and administration work of the International Department, which accounts for 75% of the agency’s budget, leading on all the agency’s emergency, development and research and advocacy work. Acted as senior spokesperson on development issues High-level media work. 1999 - 2004,
Naresh Saxena, Preparation of a paper on Peoples’ Participation and Civil Society, India, for Danida - 2001,
Roger Riddell, Manager and lead consultant for a number of multi-country assessments of the impact of NGO aid, including for the Swedish and Finnish Government and the OECD (with ODI) - 2000,
Tim Sheehy, Engagement in studies for DFID on how to strengthen civil society participation in development of Poverty Reduction Strategies Papers (PRSPs). - 2000,
- Paper: ‘Civil Society Participation in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers,’ Report to the Department for International Development (DFID) (Two Volumes), October 2000
- Paper: ‘Strengthening Poverty Dialogue in Lesotho: Civil Society Participation in Lesotho’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper,’ Report to DFID, Tim Sheehy & Trish Silkin, SGTS, November 2000
- Paper: ‘Strengthening Civil Society Participation in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers,’ Report to DFID, Tim Sheehy & Steve Godfrey, SGTS, June 2001
Roger Riddell, Review of National Policy on Non-Governmental Organisations for Uganda. Kampala: UNDP. Lead consultant - 1998,
Andrew Barnett, Director of research and international policy at the Intermediate Technology Development Group - 1994 - 1998,
