Cooperation after war: International development in Bosnia, 1995 to 1999

This paper discusses how predispositions, incentives, the number and heterogeneity of participants, and leadership (Faerman et al. 2001) jointly influenced the international effort to develop Bosnia and Herzegovina. International coalitions, task forces, and advisory groups are increasingly charged with implementing reforms following civil conflict. This requires a complex web of interorganizational relationships among NGOS, donors and host nations at both global and ‘ground’ levels. To better understand development assistance, attention must be paid to the relationships between these varied players. We find that four factors influenced relationships between policy, donor, and implementing organizations; and those strained relationships, in turn, affected development success. The paper draws on interviews, conducted in Bosnia, with 43 development professionals, observation of development meetings in Tuzla and Sarajevo, and review of related documents from international development programs.

On producing and sharing knowledge across boundaries: experiences from the interfaces of an international development research network

The number of large research networks and programmes engaging in knowledge production for development has grown over the past years. One of these programmes devoted to generating knowledge about and for development is National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) North–South, a cross-disciplinary, international development research network funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and the Swiss National Science Foundation. Producing relevant knowledge for development is a core goal of the programme and an important motivation for many of the participating researchers. Over the years, the researchers have made use of various spaces for exchange and instruments for co-production of knowledge by academic and non-academic development actors. In this article we explore the characteristics of co-producing and sharing knowledge in interfaces between development research, policy and NCCR North–South practice. We draw on empirical material of the NCCR North–South programme and its specific programme element of the Partnership Actions. Our goal is to make use of the concept of the interface to reflect critically about the pursued strategies and instruments applied in producing and sharing knowledge for development across boundaries.

Large-scale land acquisitions: Focus on South-East Asia: International Development Policy

Large-scale land acquisition, or "land grabbing", has become a key research topic among scholars interested in agrarian change, development, and the environment. The term "land acquisitions" refers to a highly contested process in terms of governance and impacts on livelihoods and human rights. This book focuses on South-East Asia. A series of thematic and in-depth case studies put "land grabbing" into specific historical and institutional contexts. The volume also offers a human rights analysis of the phenomenon, examining the potential and limits of human rights mechanisms aimed at preventing and mitigating land grabs' negative consequences.

Researching the Culture in Agri-Culture: Social Research for International Development: Elementos para una sociología de la investigación agrícola internacional. En: Avá, nº 9

Dedicado a la memoria de Robert Merton y sus contribuciones a la sociología de la ciencia, el libro toma como objeto la débil institucionalización del análisis social en la investigación agrícola. Así, la "cultura en la agricultura" hace referencia a los patrones y formas de organización social de la actividad de investigación en los centros agrícolas internacionales.

Time-critical aid : questionable use of disaster assistance funds for Peru : report to the Administrator, Agency for International Development /

"B-220921"--P. 1.

A review of Alliance for Progress goals : a report by the Bureau for Latin America, Agency for International Development.

"March 1969."

United States A.I.D. mission to Guatemala, Agency for International Development : telephone directory.

"Personel list and telephone directory"--Leaf [1].

Inter-American Development Bank loans to Guatemala : hearing before the Subcommittee on International Development Institutions and Finance of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, first session, December 8, 1981.

Item 1013-A, 1013-B (microfiche)

Agency for International Development needs to strengthen its management of study, research, and evaluation activities : report /

"B-133220."

Problems in coordinating multilateral assistance to Thailand, Departments of State and the Treasury, Agency for International Development : report to the Congress /

Publication date stamped on cover.

U.S. policy for the East Asia regional economic development program--what should it be? Department of State, Agency for International Development : report to the Congress /

Publication date stamped on cover.

The international development of space and its impact on U.S. national space policy /

Cover title.

Renewable energy sources for the world's poor : a review of current international development assistance programs /

October 1979.