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2020
The EBA Aid Review 2020
Each year the EBA submits a report to the Government of Sweden summarising the content and conclusion of our reports and seminars. This report is written for a wide audience of policy makers, practitioners and students as well as the...
2018
The EBA Aid Review 2018
Our intention with this report is to highlight the more important lessons learned from EBA’s reports and seminars during...
2016
The EBA Aid Review 2016
By March 31 each year the EBA submits a report to the Government of Sweden summarising the content and conclusion of our reports and seminars. In the 2016 Aid Review we present work conducted during 2015 and also briefly summarise our...
2015
The EBA Aid Review 2015
By March 31 each year the EBA submits a report to the Government of Sweden summarising the content and conclusion of our reports and seminars. In the 2015 Aid Review we present work conducted during 2014 and also briefly summarise our...
2021:02
Liberation Conservation The Salween Peace Park and the Politics of Possessing the Earth in...
Tomas Cole
In Southeast Myanmar a protracted armed conflict has dragged on for over 70 years. This DDB depicts the struggles of indigenous people and environmental activists to transform a war-torn area into an indigenously run protected zone, the...
2021:01
Regional development
The Invisibility Cloak – How ‘Internationals’ Emotions Affect Their Listening in...
Pernilla Johansson
Effective peacebuilding requires international actors to listen to local partners, which often fails in practice. Through interviews with practitioners, donors and researchers, this DDB identifies how everyday emotions help or hinder the...

2020:07
Democracy
Effects of Swedish and International Democracy Aid
Ana Horigoshi, Kunal Sen, Melissa Samarin, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa, Rachel M. Gisselquist
https://www.youtube.com/embed/FHUALezAp8k Democracy aid is a key component of Swedish international development cooperation. The EBA report Effects of Swedish and international democracy aid explores the effects of aid on countries...

2020:06
Equality
Mapping
Sextortion: Corruption And Gender-Based Violence
Åsa Eldén, Dolores Calvo, Elin Bjarnegård, Silje Lundgren, Sofia Jonsson
https://www.youtube.com/embed/GU79ssaf-aM The abuse of power and position in exchange for sexual favours – sextortion – is both a form of corruption and of gender-based violence (GBV), which makes it difficult to address. How should...

2020:November
Climate
Alignment of Sweden’s Multilateral Aid with the Paris Agreement on Climate Change
Lisa Hjelm, Mats Hårsmar
The study contains assessments of 25 multilateral organisations receiving support from Swedish ODA. To what extent are their work aligned with the Paris Agreement in terms of climate mitigation, adaptation to adverse effects of climate...

2020:04
Democracy, Public administration, Regional development
Institution Building In Practice: An evaluation Of Swedish Central Authorities´ Reform Cooperation...
Dejana Razić Ilić, Giorgio Ferrari, Krenar Loshi, Númi Östlund, Richard Allen
This evaluation analyses the results, relevance and cost-effectiveness of Swedish central government authorities’ development cooperation projects in the Western Balkans (2009–2018). THE EVALUATION ALSO SHOWED: Every year, around...

2020:05
Public administration
Analysis
In Proper Organization we Trust –Trust in Interorganizational Aid Relations
Janet Vähämäki, Susanna Alexius
Trust based management of public services could serve to achieve better results. To build trust is particularly difficult in the area of development cooperation: vast distances, unequal power relations and complex practices provide...
2020:06
The Promise of Payday: Exploring the role of state cash transfers in post-apartheid rural South...
Stefan Granlund
Cash transfer programs have become a significant tool in efforts to reduce poverty. Focusing on the Child Support Grant, this DDB explores the material and socio-relational implications of state cash transfers in rural South...
2020:05
Social entrepreneurship and innovation for transformative change - Empirical studies of sanitation...
Suvi Kokko
Social entrepreneurship and innovation are expected to take on a growing role in solving global problems of sustainability. This DDB examines the case of a social entrepreneur in the sanitation sector in Kenya. By studying the dynamics of...
2020:04
Exploring pitfalls of participation – and ways towards just practices through a participatory...
Helena Kraff
Participatory processes are typically viewed as democratic and transparent. This DDB explores the pitfalls of participation. By addressing when, how and why participatory practices lead to unjust forms of participation, it offers guidance...

2020:April
Research
Development Research in Sweden – A Dispersed Research Community Under Pressure
Cecilia Strand, Elin Bjarnegård, Flora Hajdu, Henning Melber, Janet Vähämäki, Jonas Ewald, Magnus Jirström, Rickard Lalander
This study was initiated and conducted by the newly established Swedish Development Research Network (SweDev) with support from the Expert Group for Aid Studies (EBA). The study has sought to map the Swedish development research community,...

2020:02
Climate
Evaluation
Evaluation of the Swedish Climate Change Initiative, 2009 – 2012
Jane Burt, Jessica Wilson, John Colvin, Mehjabeen Abidi Habib, Miriam Kugele, Mutizwa Mukute
In 2009, the Swedish Government launched the Climate Change Initiative (CCI), a four-year programme of investments in climate change adaptation and mitigation measures, targeting some of the poorest countries. The CCI amounted to SEK 4...
2020:03
Health
Making Sanitation Happen: An Enquiry into Multi-Level Sanitation Governance
Nelson Ekane
Sanitation is high on the international development agenda, but how is sanitation policy actually put into practice on the ground? This DDB examines governance structures in sanitation on multiple levels across Rwanda and Uganda....
2020:02
Equality
Development Goals and Gender Equality Change: Superficial Adjustment or Credible Commitments?
Helena Hede Skagerlind
Global performance indicators are now-common tools for global Development governance. This DDB gives an account of the influences of such indicators, studying the mechanisms of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and their effects on...

2020:01
How can an agricultural investment that never happened affect people living in poverty?
Linda Engström
Large agricultural investment projects have been popular in African development for almost 20 years. The results of these investments however, have often failed to materialize. This DDB explores the consequences for people living where...

2020:01
Business
Mapping
Mobilising Private Development Finance: Implications for Overall Aid Allocations
Matthew Gouett, Polly Meeks, Samantha Attridge
Financing the SDGs will demand massive re-channeling of private investments. ODA may play an important role in mobilizing such flows to development purposes. In the EBA report Mobilising Private Development Finance: Implications for...

2019:09
Democracy
Analysis
Democracy in African Governance: Seeing and Doing it Differently
Göran Hydén, Marina Buch Kristensen
The Expert Group for Aid Studies (EBA) report Democracy in African Governance: Seeing and Doing it Differently examines democratic development in African countries and how democracy aid can be improved. The author discusses approaches...
0
Study of the effects of Swedish and international democracy support
Support in the areas of democracy and human rights currently represents about one-fourth of Swedish bilateral overseas development assistance, which is about twice as much as the average of OECD Development Assistance Committee countries....

2019:08
Climate
Mapping
Fishing Aid: Mapping and Synthesising Evidence in Support of SDG 14 Fisheries Targets
Goncalo Carneiro, Raphaelle Bisiaux
Despite many decades of aid to the fisheries sector, there are few known efforts to document lessons learned. The purpose of the study Fishing Aid: Mapping and Synthesising Evidence in Support of SDG 14 Fisheries Targets is to inform...
2019:07
Equality
Review
Applying a Masculinities Lens to the Gendered Impacts of Social Safety Nets
Abby Fried, Gary Barker, Jeni Klugman, Kate Doyle, Meagan Dooley, Ruti Levtov
This literature review looks at how SSNs better can integrate a gender-relational lens, including an analysis of masculinities and power dynamics, with the aim of making them more effective and sustainable. Social protection systems are...

2019:06
Evaluation
Joint Nordic Organisational Assessment of the Nordic Development Fund (NDF)
Eilis Lawlor, Kris Prasada Rao, Mira Berger, Stephen Spratt
The multilateral development finance institution Nordic Development Fund, NDF, is well-functioning and adds value from an international perspective. However, it needs reforms to uphold its relevance. This concludes the evaluation Joint...
2019:05
Human Rights
Review
Impact of Civil Society Anti-Discrimination Initiatives: A Rapid Review
Andrew Shepherd, Dhruva Mathur, Rachel Marcus
Poor people often belong to discriminated against groups. For a sustainable reduction of poverty, it is necessary to work against discrimination and disrespect of human rights. How effective are anti-discrimination measures undertaken...

2019:05
Migration
Review
Migration and Development: The Role for Development Aid, Research Overview 2019: August
Robert E.B Lucas
What is known and not known about the links between migration and economic development? What is the potential of development assistance in enhancing these links? The Swedish government’s policy on international development underlines...

2019:04
Democracy
Evaluation
Building on a Foundation Stone: The Long-Term Impacts of a Local Infrastructure and Governance...
Ariel BenYishay, Brad Parks, Christian Baehr, Daniel Aboagye, Punwath Prum, Rachel Trichler
The evaluation Building on a Foundation Stone: The Long-Term Impacts of a Local Infrastructure and Governance Program in Cambodia states that one of Sweden’s major programme initiatives for local democracy on Cambodia has created...

2019:03
Democracy
Evaluation
Supporting State-Building for Democratisation? A Study of 20 Years of Swedish Democracy Aid to...
Henny Andersen, Joakim Öjendal, Karl-Anders Larsson
Since the 1990s, democracy and human rights have been an important objective in Swedish development cooperation. The study Supporting State-Building for Democratisation? A Study of 20 years of Swedish Democracy Aid to Cambodia evaluates...
2019:02
War, security and conflict
Analysis
Fit for Fragility? An Exploration of Risk Stakeholders and Systems Inside Sida
Linnea Mills, Nilima Gulrajani
Development cooperation to fragile and vulnerable environments involves different types of risk. The study Fit for Fragility? An exploration of risk stakeholders and systems inside Sida provides an analysis of how Sida works with...
2019:03
Climate
A Climate for Change? Political Communication and the Prospects of Large-Scale Collective Action on...
Stefan Linde
Stefan Linde is a post-doctoral researcher in political science at the Department Business Administration, Technology and Social Sciences, at Luleå University of Technology. His current employment is within the project ‘Governing...
2019:01
Climate
International Acceptance of Climate Security Norms
Elin Jakobsson
Elin Jakobsson is a reseacher and a teacher in International Relations at Stockholm University. She holds a PhD in International Relations, being the first in Sweden to attain a doctoral decree in this subject. Elin's research concerns...

2019
Blockchain as a tool in humanitarian action - a brief overview of potential uses
Anna Bäckman
This working paper will discuss the possible potential of using blockchain technology in the humanitarian system to facilitate aid. It starts with a brief overview of the system of today followed by an introduction to blockchain technology...

2018:10
Business, War, security and conflict
Evaluation
Nation Building in a Fractured Country: An Evaluation of Swedish Cooperation in Economic...
Claes Lindahl, Julie Lindahl, Mikael Söderbäck, Tamara Ivankovic
The report Nation Building in a Fractured Country: An Evaluation of Swedish Cooperation in Economic Development with Bosnia and Herzegovina 1995-2018 focuses on the theme of economic development over more than two decades of development...
0
Analysis
Trust and trust based management in aid. A study on embedded challenges and core insights from...
Trust Based Management has been promoted as an alternative to management trends associated with New Public Management. The aim of the study is to scrutinize basic conditions for trust based management in aid, seeking insights from both...
2018:09
Human Rights, War, security and conflict
Underfunded Appeals: Understanding the Consequences, Improving the System
Sophia Swithern
The EBA-report Underfunded Appeals. Understanding the Consequences, Improving the System studies the consequences of funding covering less and less of the stated urgent humanitarian needs worldwide. In 2017 the estimated number of...

2018:08
Public administration
Seeking Balanced Ownership in Changing Development Cooperation Relationships
Charlotte Örnemark, Fabian Scholtes, Niels Keijzer, Stephan Klingebiel
According to the Paris Declaration and the 2030 Agenda, ownership is a prerequisite for effective development cooperation. How can the principle of ownership be promoted in today’s complex development cooperation, in which the numbers of...
2018
In Pursuit of Per Diem - Donor and Recipient Practices of Per Diem Payment
Arne Tostensen
Increasing emphasis on capacity-building and training activities as a proportion of donors’ country programmes has drawn attention to per diem practices. This report discusses the uses and abuses of per diem payments, predominantly by...
2018:07
Equality, Public administration
Putting Priority into Practice: Sida’s Implementation of its Plan for Gender Integration
Elin Bjarnegård, Fredrik Uggla
In 2015, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) was tasked with strengthening gender integration by 2018. What results were achieved through this initiative? The Expert Group for Aid Studies (EBA) commissioned...

2018
Public administration
The Rise and Fall of Budget Support in Swedish Development Cooperation
Karl-Anders Larsson
Budget support is the aid modality that best complies with the principles for aid effectiveness and it has been stated in several Swedish government documents since 2000 that its share of total Swedish aid should increase. It increased up...

2018:06
Democracy, Human Rights, Regionalt bistånd
Swedish Aid in the Era of Shrinking Democratic Space – the Case of Turkey
Åsa Eldén, Paul T. Levin
“Shrinking democratic space” describes a global trend whereby activists’ and civil society organizations’ freedom to organize and operate is circumscribed by increasingly repressive and authoritarian governments. From a Swedish...

2018:05
Public administration
Who Makes the Decisions on Swedish Aid Funding? An Overview
Expertgruppen för biståndsanalys
This report provides an overview of the financial governance of Swedish ODA at the national level. Many different stakeholders at various levels are involved in the decision-making process for Swedish aid including the Parliament, the...
2018:04
Public administration
Budget Support, Poverty and Corruption: A Review of the Evidence
Geske Dijkstra
The Expert Group for Aid Studies (EBA) report Budget support, poverty and corruption: a review of the evidence shows that budget support has been an effective way of reducing poverty. Budget support is aid that the recipient...
2018
Climate
Weather and Conflicts in Afghanistan
Monir Elias Bounadi
This Working Paper combine high-resolution data on temperature and precipitation with georeferenced data on conflict events to explore the link between local weather variations and conflict incidence for all districts of Afghanistan...
2018:03
Public administration
How Predictable is Swedish Aid? A Study of Exchange Rate Volatility
Númi Östlund
The Expert Group for Aid Studies report How predictable is Swedish aid? A study of exchange rate volatility examines the effects of disbursing Swedish bilateral aid in Swedish kronor (SEK), without hedging. Sweden generally disburses...

2018:02
War, security and conflict
Building Bridges Between International Humanitarian and Development Responses to Forced Migration
Alexander Kocks, Hanne Roggeman, Helge Roxin, Ruben Wedel
In the EBA report Building Bridges Between International Humanitarian and Development Responses to Forced Migration, researchers from the German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval) review studies of aid responses in Syria and...

2018:05
Health
The Impact of Abortion Legalization on Fertility and Female Empowerment - New Evidence from Mexico
Damian Clarke, Hanna Mühlrad
Hanna Mühlrad is a Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Economics at Lund University, Sweden. Her primary fields of interest are health economics, development economics, labor economics and global and public health. The main focus of...

2018:04
Health
Health Systems Bottles - Necks and Evidence-based District Health Planning. Experiences from the...
Dorcus Kiwanuka Henriksson
Dorcus Kiwanuka Henriksson is a health systems and public health specialist at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm and the Chair of the Emerging Voices for Global Health Network (EV4GH). In 2017 she defended her doctoral thesis "Health...

2018:03
Health
Closing the Quality Gap - Investigating Health System Bottlenecks and Quality Improvement...
Ulrika Baker
Ulrika Baker is a Medical Doctor with a background in Public Health and Family Medicine. She has lived and worked for several years in Sub Saharan Africa, including in Tanzania, Uganda, Eritrea and Malawi where she has been based since...
2018
Public administration
Volatility in Swedish Aid: the Case of Six Long-term Partner Countries
Matilda Svedberg
Looking specifically at the case of Sweden, this working paper aims to provide insight to research and policies concerning aid volatility and generate comparable estimates of volatility in foreign...

2018:01
Business
DFIs and Development Impact: an Evaluation of Swedfund
Justin Flynn, Peter O'Flynn, Stephen Spratt
In a new EBA report, Sweden's Development Finance Institution Swedfund is evaluated for the first time in a decade. [caption id="attachment_9182" align="alignright" width="322"] Swedfund is the Development Finance Institution of the...
2018
Equality, Public administration
On-going Evaluation of Gender Mainstreaming at Sida – Second Report
Elin Bjarnegård, Fredrik Uggla, Hanna Barvaeus
The Expert for Aid Studies decided in 2016 to initiate "on-going evaluation" on the efforts to strengthen gender mainstreaming at Sida until 2018. This is the second report from the evaluation. In total, two interim reports and a final EBA...
2018:02
Public administration
The Rise and Fall of "Results Initiatives" in Swedish Development Aid
Janet Vähämäki
Janet is a researcher at Stockholm Center for Organizational Research (SCORE). In 2017 she defended herdoctoral thesis Matrixing Aid- The Rise and Fall of ‘Results Initiatives’ in Swedish Development Aid at Stockholm Business School,...

2018:01
Health
Beyond an Instrumental Approach to Religion and Development - Challenges for Church-based...
Josephine Sundqvist
Josephine Sundqvist is a development researcher who defended her thesis ”Beyond and instrumental approach to Religion and Development – Challenges for church-based healthcare” at the Uppsala Religion and Society Research Centre at...
2017
Analytical Framework for Portfolio Analyses of Swedish Development Cooperation
Annika Nilsson, Johanna Lindgren Garcia
This report introduces a generic model for portfolio analyses of Swedish bilateral development cooperation, which can be replicated across countries and sectors. A portfolio analysis of Mozambique and Palestine is conducted based on the...
2017:11
Sweden's Financing of UN Funds and Programmes: Analyzing the Past, Looking to the Future
Nina Connelly, Stephen Browne, Thomas G Weiss
Donor’s funding of UN Funds and Programmes has become increasingly earmarked over the last decade. The degree of earmarking now stands close to 80%, to be compared with 58% in 2007. The amount of core resources has subsequently declined....
2017
Climate
The Impact of Foreign Aid on Local Deforestation
Nicklas Nordfors
In collaboration with the Master’s Programme at the Department of Economics, Stockholm University, the EBA regularly engages as Master’s thesis co-supervisors. A successfully graded thesis may be published as an EBA Working Paper....
2017
Health
Plant Pests and Child Health: Evidence from Locust Infestations in West Africa
Evelina Linnros
In collaboration with the Master’s Programme at the Department of Economics, Stockholm University, the EBA regularly engages as Master’s thesis co-supervisors. A successfully graded thesis may be published as an EBA Working Paper....
2017:10
Democracy, Public administration
Seven Steps to Evidence-Based Anti-corruption: A Roadmap
Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
In this report, based on her extensive research on anti-corruption, Professor Alina Mungiu-Pippidi discusses the possibility for donors as outsiders to support domestic strategies aimed at building public integrity and ethical...

2017:09
Geospatial Analysis of Aid: A New Approach to Aid Evaluation
Ann-Sofie Isaksson
Recent years have seen an increased focus on results in development cooperation, and a heated debate on the evaluation strategies and effectiveness of development policies. Against this background, the aim of this report is to introduce...
2017:10
Results and Ownership in Swedish Development Cooperation
Therese Brolin
Therese Brolin defended her PhD thesis ”Ownership or Donorship? Results and ownership in Swedish international development cooperation” in Human Geography at the University of Gothenburg in September 2017. Prior to her doctoral studies...

2017:09
War, security and conflict
Peace and Politics: Promoting Durable Solutions to Communal Conflicts
Emma Elfversson
Emma Elfversson is a researcher at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University. She will defend her dissertation “Central Politics and Local Peacemaking: The Conditions for Peace after Communal Conflict” on 6...
2017:08
War, security and conflict
Peacemaking Up Close: Explaining Mediator Styles of International Mediators
Mathilda Lindgren
Mathilda Lindgren is a Peace Researcher who defended her thesis ”Peacemaking Up Close: Explaining Mediator Styles of International Mediators” at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University in October 2016. This...
2017:04
Health, Research
Effects of Violent Conflict on Women and Children: Sexual Behvaior, Fertility, and Infant Mortality...
Elina Elveborg Lindskog
Elina Elveborg Lindskog defended her thesis "Effects of violent conflict on women and children. Sexual behavior, fertility, and infant mortality in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo" in June 2016. This is a summary of her...
2017:07
Equality, War, security and conflict
Educating for Peace - A Theological Task in Contemporary Times
Sara Gehlin
Sara Gehlin is a post-doctoral researcher in theology. Her current research project Women and Peace: Vision and Reality at the Intersection of Peace - and Feminist Theology concerns the impact of Resolution 1325 in contemporary...
2017:06
Health
Increasing Access to Abortion
Susanne Sjöström
Susanne Sjöström is an obstetrician at Danderyds sjukhus. She defended her thesis "Increasing acces to abortion - perspectives on provider availability in different settings" at Karolinska institutet in Januari 2017. Her work has...
2017:05
Health, Research
The Quest for Maternal Survival in Rwanda – Paradoxes in Policy and Practice
Jessica Påfs
Jessica Påfs works as a SRHR-advisor for Plan Sverige. She defended her thesis in December 2016 at Uppsala university with the thesis "The Quest for Maternal Survival in Rwanda - Paradoxes in Policy and Practice". This is a summary...
2017:03
Health, Research
Moving Upstream: Gender Norms and Emerging Sexual Experiences in Early Adolescence
Anna Kågesten
Anna Kågesten is a researcher at Karolinska Institutet. She defended her thesis ”A window of opportunity: Gender attitudes and patterns of romantic and sexual experiences in early adolescence” at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School...

2017:02
Health, Research
Strategy for Supporting Low-income Countries in Building a Midwifery Profession
Malin Bogren
Malin Bogren defended her thesis "Building a midwifery profession in South Asia" in 2016 at the University of Gothenburg. "Strategy for supporting low-income countries in building a midwifery profession" is a summary of her thesis. The...
2017:01
Exporting Agrarian Expertise: Development Aid at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences...
Karl Bruno
This Development Dissertation Brief is a summary of Karl Bruno's doctoral dissertation in agrarian history, which he defended in June 2016. It is a historical study, the findings throw new light on formative episodes in Swedish rural...
2017:08
Education, Research
Research Capacity in the New Global Development Agenda
Måns Fellesson
Studien syftar till att med hjälp av primärdata besvara denna fråga genom att utifrån parametrarna rörlighet, samarbete och vetenskaplig produktion studera karriärutvecklingen bland personer från Moçambique, Tanzania och Etiopien...

2017:07
Research Aid Revisited – a Historically Grounded Analysis of Future Prospects and Policy Options
David Nilsson, Sverker Sörlin
This report examines the historical path as well as current tendencies of the Swedish government’s support to development research and research capacity building in low-income countries, or simply “research aid”. It also presents...
2017:06
Research
Confronting the Contradiction - an Exploration into the Dual Purpose of Accountability and Learning...
Desmond MchNeil, Hilde Reinersten, Kristina Bjorkdahl
Based on evaluations of Swedish and Norwegian aid the researchers Hilde Reinertsen, Kristian Bjørkdahl and Desmond McNeill written a report which examines whether accountability and learning are compatible in the evaluation of aid. Their...

2017:05
War, security and conflict
Local Peacebuilding - challenges and opportunities
Hanna Leonardsson, Joakim Öjendal, Martin Lundqvist
Peacebuilding is at crossroads. While it is one of the most important intstruments for addressing crisis and fragility, it is also persistently criticised. In this EBA report, Joakim Öjendal, Hanna Leonardsson and Martin Lundqvist Review...

2017:03
Health
Animal Health in Development – Its Role for Poverty Reduction and Human Welfare
Arvid Uggla, Jonathan Rushton, Ulf Magnusson
In low income countries, around 70% of the rural poor and 10% of the urban poor are dependent on livestock. Increasing livestock production in rural areas is not enough to reduce poverty, productivity gains are needed. Animal diseases are...
2017
Equality
On-going Evaluation of Gender Mainstreaming at Sida - First report
Elin Bjarnegård, Fredrik Uggla
The Expert for Aid Studies decided in 2016 to initiate “on-going evaluation” on the efforts to strengthen gender mainstreaming at Sida until 2018. This first report presents the researcher’s "baseline" focusing on gender integration...
2017:02
Equality, Human Rights
Do Anti-Discrimination Measures Reduce Poverty Among Marginalised Social Groups?
Anna Mdee, Ella Page, Rachel Marcus
In the EBA-report “Do Anti-Discrimination Measures Reduce Poverty Among Marginalised Social Groups? “ Rachel Marcus, Anna Mdee and Ellen Page from the Chronic Poverty Advisory Network, put focus on the impacts of political...
2017:01
War, security and conflict
Making Waves: Implications of the Irregular Migration and Refugee Situation on Official Development...
Andrew Sheriff, Anna Knoll
Based on the most recent developments in Europe, Anna Knoll with Andrew Sherriff at the European Center for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) have written an EBA-report high-lighting a number of key issues concerning the development...
2016:11
Democracy, Research, War, security and conflict
Revitalising the Policy for Global Development
Per Molander
Rapporten baseras på en genomgång av relevant forskning om ”vad som driver utveckling” och utmynnar i ett antal policyslutsatser för Politiken för global utveckling (PGU) och svenskt bistånd. Här återfinns en artikel på...

2016:09
How does China Challenge the IMF’s Power in Africa?
Johanna Malm
Johanna Malm defended her PhD dissertation “When Chinese development finance met the IMF’s public debt norm in DR Congo” in International Development Studies at the Department of Social Sciences and Business at Roskilde University in...
2016:08
Democracy, Public administration
Anti-corruption Reform – Evolution or Big Bang?
Anders Sundell
Anders Sundell is a researcher at the Department of Political Science, Gothenburg University. He defended his dissertation "Public Administration and Corruption: How to get the institutions that work" at Gothenburg University in June 2015...
2016
Business, Climate, Democracy, Education, Equality, Health, Human Rights, Public administration, Regionalt bistånd, Research, War, security and conflict
Reclassification or Reprioritisation? The Sector Allocation of Swedish Official Development...
Ulrika Ahrsjö
Working paper "Reclassification or Reprioritisation? The Sector Allocation of Swedish Official Development Assistance 1973-2013" written by Ulrika Ahrsjö....
2016
Public administration, Regionalt bistånd
Sweden's Economic Relationships with Uganda
Anton Ståhl, Arne Bigsten, John Åke Andersson, Per-Åke Andersson
Working paper"Sweden's economic relationships with Uganda". Authors: Arne Bigsten, John Åke Andersson, Per-Åke Andersson, Anton...

2016:10
Regionalt bistånd
Swedish Development Cooperation with Tanzania – has it helped the poor?
David Carpenter, Julie Thaarup, Mark McGillivray, Oliver Morrissey
Authors: Mark McGillivray, David Carpenter, Oliver Morrissey och Julie Thaarup The report was presented during following...
2014:01
Randomized Controlled Trials: Strenghts, Weaknesses and Policy Relevance
Anders Olofsgård
Det övergripande syftet med denna rapport är att bidra till den pågående debatten om utvärdering och effektivitet I svenskt bistånd. Mer specifikt ligger fokus på betydelsen av så kallade randomiserade kontrollerade studier (RKS)...
2016:09
Regionalt bistånd
Exploring Donorship - Internal Factors in Swedish Aid to Uganda
Stein-Erik Kruse
Author: Stein- Erik Kruse The report was presented during following seminar. Click here to find a blog from the...
2016:08
Climate, Democracy, Education, Equality, Health, Human Rights, Public administration, War, security and conflict
Sustaining a Development Policy: Results and Responsibility for the Swedish Policy for Global...
Lisa Román, Måns Fellesson
The report was presented during following seminar. Click here and here to find articles on the...

2016:07
Towards an Alternative Development Management Paradigm?
Cathy Shutt
Alla som på något sätt är involverade i internationellt bistånd vill bidra till resultat och göra skillnad för de människor som insatserna riktar sig till. Betydelsen av att visa och rapportera om resultat är därför inget nytt...
2016
Is Development Aid a Complement or a Substitute to Foreign Direct Investment?
Ulrika Ahrsjö
Working paper "Is Development Aid a Complement or a Substitute to Foreign Direct Investment?", Ulrika Ahrsjö....

2016:06
Public administration
Vem beslutar om svenska biståndsmedel? En översikt
Expertgruppen för biståndsanalys
Denna studie är en kartläggning av den finansiella styrningen av det svenska biståndet, från budgetpropositionens grova ramar till insatsnivå: Vem beslutar om vilka medel inom det svenska biståndet, till vilka ändamål, på vilka...

2016:05
Pathways to Change: Evaluating Development Interventions with Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)
Barbara Befani
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) is a method particularly well suited for systematic and rigorous comparisons and synthesis of information over a limited number of cases. In addition to a presentation of the method, this report...
2016:04
Climate, Democracy, Education, Equality, Health, Human Rights, Regionalt bistånd, War, security and conflict
Swedish Responsibility and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Kristina Jönsson, Magdalena Bexell
In September 2015, the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by all UN Member States. Attention now turns to realisation of the goals at national level. In light of their broad scope, a clear allocation of...
2016:06
Equality
Women in African Natural Resource Booms
Anja Tolonen
Anja Tolonen is an assistant professor at Department of Economics at Barnard College, Columbia University. She defended her dissertation "Mining Booms in Africa and Local Welfare Effects: Labor markets, Female Empowerment, and Criminality"...
2016:05
Equality, Human Rights
Beyond the Buzzwords: Approaches to Gender in Humanitarian Aid
Elisabeth Olivius
Elisabeth Olivius is a researcher at the Department of Political Science at Umeå University. She defended her dissertation "Governing Refugees through Gender Equality: Care, Control, Emancipation" in December 2014. The aim of this...
2016:03
Education
Capturing Complexity and Context: Evaluating Aid to Education
Jane Leer, Joel Samoff, Michelle Reddy
The objective of this study is to do a synthesis of evaluations of aid supported education activities that recognizes the complexities of education, aid, and evaluation. The authors are arguing that since education, aid, and evaluations...

2016:01
Education
Education in Developing Countries what Policies and Programmes Affect Learning and Time in School?
The authors have conduct a study in order to determine which types of education programs are most likely to improve students’ educational outcomes. The study is a synthesis of high quality and rigorous evaluations in the field of...
2015:01
Business, Human Rights
Business and Human Rights in development cooperation - has Sweden incorporated the UN guiding...
Rasmus Kløcker Larsen, Sandra Atler
Forskaren Rasmus Kløcker Larsen och MR-experten Sandra Atler har skrivit EBA-rapporten ”Business and Human Rights in Development Cooperation – has Sweden incorporated the UN Guiding Principles?. Rapporten innehåller en analys av hur...
2016:01
Regionalt bistånd
Support to Regional Cooperation and Integration in Africa - What Works and Why?
Fredrik Söderbaum, Therese Brolin
Regional cooperation and integration in Africa has deepened and expanded considerably during the last two decades, partly as a result of intesified outside support and financing. Over time, Sweden has provided substantial support in to...

2015:09
Climate
In Search of Double Dividends from Climate Change Interventions Evidence from Forest Conservation...
Ariana Salas, Daniel Ternald, Erin Sills, Eskil Mattsson, Gunnar Köhlin, Madelene Ostwald, Subhrendu Pattanayak
More and more aid is used for climate related interventions in developing countries. In the last 15 years, bilateral aid has increased from 3 to 20 billion USD annually. Globally, the ambition is to further five-fold this kind of support...

2015:08
Business, Human Rights, Public administration
Evaluation
Business and Human Rights in Development Cooperation – Has Sweden Incorporated the UN Guiding...
Rasmus Kløcker Larsen, Sandra Atler
Forskaren Rasmus Kløcker Larsen och MR-experten Sandra Atler har författat EBA-rapporten ”Business and Human Rights in Development Cooperation – has Sweden incorporated the UN Guiding Principles?. Rapporten innehåller en analys av...

2016:04
Education, Human Rights
Child education, child labor and the agricultural economy
Elin Vimefall
Most poor people in the world live in rural communities, and they are more likely to be women, children, or members of a minority ethnic group. The research presented in this brief focus on these individuals, the most vulnerable in...

2016:03
Regional development, Regionalt bistånd
Path dependent possibilities of transformation: Agricultural change and economic development in...
Montserrat López Jerez
No doubt, institutions are central to economic and social development, and history provides many examples showing that they have a tendency to be persistent. Nevertheless, several issues remain to be settled before conclusions can be drawn...

2016:02
Human Rights
The when and why of helping: individual and organizational decision making from a psychological...
Arvid Erlandsson
Within the fields of experimental psychology and behavioral economy helping decisions, i.e. decisions that potentially can benefit someone else than the decision maker, have mostly been investigated at the individual level (e.g. “should...
2016:01
Public administration, Research
Going with the flow or swimming against the current? Interplay of formal rules, informal norms and...
Yumiko Yasuda
This DDB introduces key findings from broader research that aimed at understanding the influence of formal and informal rules and norms on civil society...
2015:07
Public administration
Review
Making Development Work: The Quality of Government Approach
Bo Rothstein, Marcus Tannenberg
This report aims to summarize the results of research from the Quality of Government approach in terms of its importance for development and aid policy. In the report, Professor Bo Rothstein and Marcus Tannenberg from the University of...
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Making Development Work: The Quality of Government Approach
This report aims to summarize the results of research from the Quality of Government approach in terms of its importance for development and aid policy. In the report, Professor Bo Rothstein and Marcus Tannenberg from the University of...
2015:05
Public administration
Analysis
Has Sweden injected realism into public financial management reforms in partner countries?
Matt Andrews
The importance of well-functioning institutions – formal and informal ’rules of the game’ – for development is widely acknowledged nowadays. Much has also been written on how institutions change. However, to bring such knowledge to...
2015:06
Business, Public administration
Review
Now Open for Business: Joint development initiatives between the private and public sectors in...
Ari Kokko, Hanna Norberg, Sara Johansson da Silva
The aim with this study is to analyse existing evidence about the effects of various modes of public-private partnerships in development cooperation and to conclude what forms of partnerships that are expected to work best in certain...
2015:04
Business, Education
Review
Youth, entrepreneurship and development
Kjetil Bjorvatn
Young people in low income countries have realistically very minor options to get a job in the formal sector of the economy. Most will instead find themselves in the informal sector, with all the insecurity and low income that it implies....

2015:07
War, security and conflict
Aiding the End of Conflict? Reintegrating Ex-Combatants in Colombia
Michael Jonsson
This Dissertation Brief analyzes Colombian efforts to reintegrate AUC and FARC ex-combatants into civilian life from 2002 and onwards. The paper draws substantially from Michael Jonsson's Ph.D dissertation "A Farewell to Arms....
2015:06
War, security and conflict
Causes of Communal Conflicts – Government Bias, Elites, and Conditions for Cooperation
Johan Brosche
Why do communal conflicts turn violent in some regions but not in others? This question has been explored by Johan Brosché in his dissertation "Masters of War – The Role of Elites in Sudan’s Communal...
2015:05
Equality, War, security and conflict
Stronger than Justice: Armed Group Impunity for Sexual Violence
Angela Muvumba Sellström
Which conditions lead to armed group impunity for sexual violence? This is something that Angela Muvumba Sellström has studied in her doctoral dissertation "Stronger than Justice: Armed Group Impunity for Sexual Violence". The...

2015:04
Democracy, War, security and conflict
Public Participation in Constitution Building; An Effective Strategy for Enhancing Democracy?
Abrak Saati
Abrak Saati is a researcher at the Department of Political Science, Umeå University. This Development Dissertation Brief (DDB) is a summary of her dissertation "The Participation Myth: outcomes of participatory constitution building...
2015:03
Evaluation
Concentration difficulties? An analysis of Swedish aid proliferation
Rune Hagen
The report was presented in the following...
2015:01
Democracy
Analysis
Rethinking Civil Society and Support for Democracy
Richard Youngs
Sweden has a long tradition of providing development cooperation with the aim of strengthening democracy and respect for human rights. Sida-support for these purposes has increased in recent years, and accounts for more than 5 billion SEK...
2014:04
Analysis
The African Development Bank – Ready to Face the Challenges of the Future?
Christopher Humphrey
The EBA report "The African Development Bank - Ready to Face the Challenges of a Changing Africa? discusses the African Development Bank's current challenges. It is written by Christopher Humphrey from Zurich University in Switzerland. A...

2015:03
Public administration
Transformative Social Policy in Development? Demystifying Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin...
Johan Sandberg
Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) have been widely promoted for their ability to simultaneously pursue the twin objectives of short-term poverty alleviation through income support (i.e. cash transfers), and long-term poverty reduction...

2015:02
Research, War, security and conflict
Aiding Science. An analysis of Swedish Research Aid Policy 1973 - 2008
Veronica Brodén Gyberg
Veronica Brodén Gryberg has in this report summarized her dissertation on the topic of Swedish research aid policy. The dissertation investigates how Swedish official aid policy constructed the role of research for development in...
2015:01
Democracy
Institutional Impediments and Reluctant Actors - The Limited Role of Democracy Aid in Democratic...
Agnes Cornell
This Development Dissertation Brief (DDB) summarizes Agnes Cornell’s dissertation Institutional Impediments and Reluctant Actors - The Limited Role of Democracy Aid in Democratic Development. The dissertation examines why and under what...
2014:02
Health
Analysis
Sweden’s Development Assistance for Health – Policy Options to Support the Global Health 2035...
Dean Jamison, Gavin Yamey, Helen Saxenian, Jesper Sundewall, Robert Hecht
On December 3, 2013, the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health (CIH) published Global Health 2035: A World Converging within a Generation. The report laid out a series of opportunities for donors, low-income countries, and lower...
2013
Mapping of Swedish multilateral development aid during the 1997 – 2012 period
Mapsec
The purpose of this study was twofold. One task was to find out how Swedish support to multilateral organisations has evolved over the last 15 years. Another purpose was to investigate what information could be found in publically...
2014:01
Description of method
Randomized Controlled Trials: Strengths, Weaknesses and Policy Relevance
Anders Olofsgård
The general purpose of this report is to offer input into the ongoing debate on the evaluation and effectiveness of Swedish foreign aid. More specifically, the focus lies on the role of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in evaluations...