Contents February issue

Editorial

Hans Dembowski:
In spite of the aid affectiveness agenda, developmental programmes are still risky investments

 

Monitor

Slow reconstruction in Haiti | Niger’s new oil fields and Nigeria’s petrol price | Resource wealth as an impediment to development | How to provide pharmaceuticals to the poor | Politically motivated violence makes many elections dangerous | In brief

Focus: Managing for Results

Interview with Antonio Tujan Jr.:
“Emphasis on considering the impacts”

Vera Dicke:
A brief history of the aid-effectiveness agenda

Mamadou Lamine N’Dongo:
Africa needs regional integration

Interview with Karin Slowing Umaña:
Developing countries “must learn to say no”

Jörg Mühlbach:
A Nicaraguan NGO’s experience

Andris Piebalgs:
Results matter, not input

David Booth:
Ownership misunderstood

Raphael Mweninguwe:
Donors discontinue budget support in Malawi

Tribune

Fabian Scholtes:
How researchers can have a bearing on development agencies

Michael Konow:
In Niger, civil society must be supported at the grassroots level

Cletus Gregor Barié:
Colombian artists fight violence

Maria Elisabeth Rotter:
Why the plans for the European Endowment for Democracy are inadequate

Debate

Comments on Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s troubles in Cairo, on the elections in Egypt and on Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria | Letters