Development Initiatives Archived Collection

National factors helping aid-funded programmes deliver: Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia

This briefing shows how national leadership, policy alignment, and context‑specific approaches helped aid‑funded programmes in Kenya, Uganda, and Ethiopia deliver results, while warning of sustainability challenges.

• Research and Studies

Kenya’s aid information management: The data landscape

This report examines Kenya’s aid data landscape, assesses systems and frameworks, and recommends integration, coordination, and capacity building to improve transparency and decision‑making.

• Research and Studies

Global Humanitarian Assistance (GHA) Report 2024: Falling short? Humanitarian funding and reform

• Research and Studies

ODA financing the climate–gender–disability interface: Key facts

This factsheet analyses recent official development assistance to African countries and national budgets from select eastern African countries to assess the financing landscape of the intersections between climate change adaptation and mitigation, inclusion and empowerment of persons with disabilities, and gender equality.

• Research and Studies

From gender-relevant to gender-transformative climate finance: Rwanda case study

This briefing examines the gendered impacts of climate change in Rwanda and analyses barriers to accessing and tracking gender-relevant climate finance.

• Research and Studies

Digital compacts: global ideals, regional realities

This paper compares the UN’s Global Digital Compact and the African Digital Compact, examining their ambitions and approaches to digital and data governance.

• Commentaries

Concessional loans for Africa's climate crisis: Whose fiscal effort?

The document examines Africa’s reliance on concessional loans for climate action and the resulting debt burden. It highlights the imbalance between loans and grants in climate finance, questioning who ultimately bears the fiscal responsibility for addressing a crisis Africa contributed least to.

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Catalogue of quality funding practices to the humanitarian response (2024)

The catalogue reflects progress, supports Grand Bargain signatories’ commitment to expand quality funding through 2026, and continues to serve as a reference on funding mechanisms that strengthen humanitarian and broader crisis response.

• Research and Studies

Climate finance: A credibility gap?

This webinar explores problems with current climate finance reporting and recommendations to strengthen transparency and accountability.

• Research and Studies

Climate finance: Earning trust through consistent reporting

How inconsistent climate finance reporting is undermining trust between countries and what can be done to improve transparency.

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Vulnerability and Resilience: How does Uganda’s data ecosystem inform social protection systems?

The report aims to understand the data ecosystem that informs responsive social protection systems, and provide evidence-informed policy recommendations on how it can be strengthened.

• Research and Studies

Data analysis to leave no one behind in Tulsipur, Nepal

This report examines poverty and inequality in Tulsipur, Nepal, identifying those most at risk of exclusion and providing evidence to inform inclusive policies and strengthened social protection, thereby ensuring that progress in poverty reduction is shared equitably.

• Research and Studies

FCDO’s aid spending for nutrition: 2021

This report identifies and analyses the UK FCDO’s bilateral official development assistance (ODA) spending on nutrition-related projects up to 2021.

• Research and Studies

FCDO’s aid spending for nutrition: 2020

This report identifies and analyses the UK FCDO’s official development assistance (ODA) spending on nutrition-related projects

• Research and Studies

Aid effectiveness in Uganda: Social protection in focus

This report presents key trends in ODA between 2012 and 2021 and assesses its effectiveness in Uganda, with a focus on social protection mechanisms and donor-financed social assistance programmes.

• Research and Studies

The African Development Bank as a catalyst for reforming global financial architecture

A briefing examining Africa’s rising debt burden and the role of the African Development Bank in catalysing reforms to the global financial architecture

• Research and Studies

The conundrum of climate financing: Where is the finance for sustainable, resilient, innovative solutions?

This paper proposes some foundations for just climate financing, and asks why funds are still insufficient for climate adaption to tackle climate change

• Research and Studies

Uganda’s aid information management platform: the data landscape

An examination of Uganda's platform for tracking and managing aid-funded projects and programmes, with recommendations for government, donors and CSOs.

• Research and Studies

Improving the impact of ODA on social protection in Kenya

This briefing explores how official development assistance has strengthened Kenya’s social protection programmes — improving welfare for vulnerable households while highlighting challenges and opportunities for sustainable financing.

• Research and Studies

The role of ODA in delivering social protection programmes in Kenya: trends in disbursements, impacts on programmes and key lessons

This briefing explores the role of ODA in delivering social protection programmes in Kenya

• Research and Studies