Building Government Monitoring and Evaluation Systems Independent Evaluation Group: "Government officials, development managers and civil society are increasingly aware of the value of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of development activities. M&E provides a better means of learning from past experience, improving service delivery, planning and allocating resources, and demonstrating results as part of accountability to key stakeholders. Yet there is often confusion about what M&E entails. This booklet therefore presents a sample of M&E tools, methods and approaches, including several data collection methods, analytical frameworks, and types of evaluation and review. For each of these, a summary is provided of the following: their purpose and use; advantages and disadvantages; costs, skills, and time required; and key references. The booklet discusses:
Performance indicators
The logical framework (logframe) approach
Theory-based evaluation
Formal surveys
Rapid appraisal methods
Participatory methods
Public expenditure tracking surveys
Impact evaluation
Cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysisGovernment officials, development managers and civil society are increasingly aware of the value of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of development activities. M&E provides a better means of learning from past experience, improving service delivery, planning and allocating resources, and demonstrating results as part of accountability to key stakeholders. Yet there is often confusion about what M&E entails. This booklet therefore presents a sample of M&E tools, methods and approaches, including several data collection methods, analytical frameworks, and types of evaluation and review. For each of these, a summary is provided of the following: their purpose and use; a"
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UN Humanitarian Support Team
UN Humanitarian Support Team: "Education
Source: Zimbabwe Inter-Agency Consolidated Appeal July 2003-June 2004
Sector Analysis
Education and the school environment is key to helping children in several ways including formal education, developing life skills, HIV/AIDS awareness raising, providing a protective environment and acting as a hub for delivering humanitarian assistance such as food and vaccines. However, the education system has been undermined by the serious under funding and the loss of qualified teaching and management staff to HIV/AIDS and emigration such that the quality and delivery of education is very poor in many schools. The general decline is particularly severe in areas receiving influxes of vulnerable people who are forced to migrate because of food insecurity or are adversely affected the land reform process. The education system has been unable to respond to increased demand in these areas, meaning that education as a basic right is not accessible to significant number of children."
Source: Zimbabwe Inter-Agency Consolidated Appeal July 2003-June 2004
Sector Analysis
Education and the school environment is key to helping children in several ways including formal education, developing life skills, HIV/AIDS awareness raising, providing a protective environment and acting as a hub for delivering humanitarian assistance such as food and vaccines. However, the education system has been undermined by the serious under funding and the loss of qualified teaching and management staff to HIV/AIDS and emigration such that the quality and delivery of education is very poor in many schools. The general decline is particularly severe in areas receiving influxes of vulnerable people who are forced to migrate because of food insecurity or are adversely affected the land reform process. The education system has been unable to respond to increased demand in these areas, meaning that education as a basic right is not accessible to significant number of children."
Sunday, December 17, 2006
Monday, December 11, 2006
ADB Institute e-newsline
ADB Institute e-newsline: "Today's e-newsline Search Past Editions Print
Perspectives News Sources
POVERTY SPOTLIGHT 2006
INDONESIA: Tsunami parents forced to give up children
PRC: Harsh life of female peasants in North Jiangsu
INDIA: Child maids resigned to life of servitude
ASIA: Unsafe water imperils lives of almost half of humanity
INDIA: Turning a blind eye to bonded slavery
TIMOR LESTE: Terrible smell hangs over a nation divided
INDONESIA: Fire, disease, layoffs threaten transient poor
PRC: Cured lepers still live in colonies
TIMOR LESTE: Left to flounder in poverty and unemployment
INDIA: Midday meal scheme helps bring children to school
CAMBODIA: Land-mine victims living on the margin
KYRGYZ REP: Salvagers risk lives for a few scraps of silicon
INDIA: Child marriages persist in rural areas
INDIA: All work, no play for army of toiling kids
PAKISTAN: Villagers fall prey to kidney trade
TIMOR LESTE: Children face malnutrition and harsh conditions
MALAYSIA: Stateless children in limbo
ASIA: Improving adolescent nutrition
INDIA: Malnutrition is roadblock to development
PHILIPPINES: Sale of babies, organs highlights worsening poverty situation
CAMBODIA: Children at risk in brick factories
PRC: Escalating battle against crime in Guangzhou
INDIA: Forgotten farmers await monsoon
PHILIPPINES: Widespread worm infestation in children
INDIA: Mumbai street children fall prey to drugs
NEPAL: Awareness campaign forces traffickers to employ new tricks
INDIA: Malnutrition stunts economic growth ambitions
FIJI: Unlicensed loan sharks thriving
INDIA: Farmers opt for suicide after sowing tons of debt
NEPAL: Drought brings suffering to rural west
Perspectives News Sources
POVERTY SPOTLIGHT 2006
INDONESIA: Tsunami parents forced to give up children
PRC: Harsh life of female peasants in North Jiangsu
INDIA: Child maids resigned to life of servitude
ASIA: Unsafe water imperils lives of almost half of humanity
INDIA: Turning a blind eye to bonded slavery
TIMOR LESTE: Terrible smell hangs over a nation divided
INDONESIA: Fire, disease, layoffs threaten transient poor
PRC: Cured lepers still live in colonies
TIMOR LESTE: Left to flounder in poverty and unemployment
INDIA: Midday meal scheme helps bring children to school
CAMBODIA: Land-mine victims living on the margin
KYRGYZ REP: Salvagers risk lives for a few scraps of silicon
INDIA: Child marriages persist in rural areas
INDIA: All work, no play for army of toiling kids
PAKISTAN: Villagers fall prey to kidney trade
TIMOR LESTE: Children face malnutrition and harsh conditions
MALAYSIA: Stateless children in limbo
ASIA: Improving adolescent nutrition
INDIA: Malnutrition is roadblock to development
PHILIPPINES: Sale of babies, organs highlights worsening poverty situation
CAMBODIA: Children at risk in brick factories
PRC: Escalating battle against crime in Guangzhou
INDIA: Forgotten farmers await monsoon
PHILIPPINES: Widespread worm infestation in children
INDIA: Mumbai street children fall prey to drugs
NEPAL: Awareness campaign forces traffickers to employ new tricks
INDIA: Malnutrition stunts economic growth ambitions
FIJI: Unlicensed loan sharks thriving
INDIA: Farmers opt for suicide after sowing tons of debt
NEPAL: Drought brings suffering to rural west
ADB Institute e-newsline
ADB Institute e-newsline: "THE BOTTOM LINE: Return of the mega projects
20 June 2006
Around the same time the recently-completed Three Gorges Dam began taming the Yangtze River, the World Bank was busy changing the course of an equally potent force -- it's own development philosophy. After a two-year review, the bank decided to re-focus on infrastructure projects. Lending for basic services -- roads, power, water, sanitation and telecommunications -- will be ramped up by around $1 billion a year. Stressing the need for public sector involvement, World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz says the only way for least developed countries to shake off poverty is to stop hauling buckets. (Africans lose 40 billion productive working hours each year to carrying water.)
The Asian Development Bank is passing out the hard hats too. It is telling countries in Asia that unless they team up to improve 'physical connectivity,' the region risks losing its competitive edge in trade. The Group of Eight (G8) nations, meanwhile, warn that a lack of access to modern energy services is fast putting the Millennium Development Goals out of reach. The latest meeting of G8 finance ministers concluded with a call for more aid to help poor countries overcome 'energy poverty.'
Governments, donors and academics -- a growing chorus, all chanting the infrastructure mantra.Is this a good thing? How will it affect the pledges by the multilateral development banks (MDB) to eradicate poverty? After all, the big lenders backed off PRC's mega-dam precisely because of the potential for negative environmental impact and social costs. Should we be urging developing countries to spend billions of dollars to sink pylons and lay cable just as sustainability and pro-poor growth gets traction with policymakers? Are we about to see a rash of concrete boondoggles bligh"
20 June 2006
Around the same time the recently-completed Three Gorges Dam began taming the Yangtze River, the World Bank was busy changing the course of an equally potent force -- it's own development philosophy. After a two-year review, the bank decided to re-focus on infrastructure projects. Lending for basic services -- roads, power, water, sanitation and telecommunications -- will be ramped up by around $1 billion a year. Stressing the need for public sector involvement, World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz says the only way for least developed countries to shake off poverty is to stop hauling buckets. (Africans lose 40 billion productive working hours each year to carrying water.)
The Asian Development Bank is passing out the hard hats too. It is telling countries in Asia that unless they team up to improve 'physical connectivity,' the region risks losing its competitive edge in trade. The Group of Eight (G8) nations, meanwhile, warn that a lack of access to modern energy services is fast putting the Millennium Development Goals out of reach. The latest meeting of G8 finance ministers concluded with a call for more aid to help poor countries overcome 'energy poverty.'
Governments, donors and academics -- a growing chorus, all chanting the infrastructure mantra.Is this a good thing? How will it affect the pledges by the multilateral development banks (MDB) to eradicate poverty? After all, the big lenders backed off PRC's mega-dam precisely because of the potential for negative environmental impact and social costs. Should we be urging developing countries to spend billions of dollars to sink pylons and lay cable just as sustainability and pro-poor growth gets traction with policymakers? Are we about to see a rash of concrete boondoggles bligh"
ADB Institute e-newsline
ADB Institute e-newsline: "THE BOTTOM LINE: What can we learn from the philanthrocapitalists?
19 July 2006
Call it Philanthropy 0.2. Bill Gates is trying to take altruism out of the mansion garage and put it on a corporate footing. Thanks to a generous contribution by investment guru Warren Buffet in June, the Microsoft chairman is now overseeing a charitable foundation worth more than $60 billion. More important than its bankroll, however, is the global ambition: the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has dedicated itself to eradicating disease and poverty in developing countries using business strategies straight from Silicon Valley.
In fact, Gates and Buffet are at the vanguard of a new generation of U.S. business philanthropists supplanting the older-money foundations begun by Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie. True, private donations by the world's richest men are still dwarfed by the billions that move through official ODA channels every year. But it would be a mistake for the aid community to dismiss June's mega charity merger as media hype; governments listen to tycoons, and Gates says he wants to shape public policy.
So, how is philanthrocapitalism going to benefit the 'customers' -- the 1 billion people living in extreme poverty?
According to the Gates Foundation website, passion will be a big factor: 'We take risks, make big bets, and move with urgency.' Interestingly, many of the foundation's '15 guiding principles' would look at home in a corporate mission statement. The emphasis is on making the first move, innovation and focus. Not surprisingly, the role of science and technology gets heavy play, as does the need to show results.The software pioneer wants to shake up bureaucratic inertia in the aid community, relying on 'partnerships' rather than costly administration.
After six y"
19 July 2006
Call it Philanthropy 0.2. Bill Gates is trying to take altruism out of the mansion garage and put it on a corporate footing. Thanks to a generous contribution by investment guru Warren Buffet in June, the Microsoft chairman is now overseeing a charitable foundation worth more than $60 billion. More important than its bankroll, however, is the global ambition: the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has dedicated itself to eradicating disease and poverty in developing countries using business strategies straight from Silicon Valley.
In fact, Gates and Buffet are at the vanguard of a new generation of U.S. business philanthropists supplanting the older-money foundations begun by Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie. True, private donations by the world's richest men are still dwarfed by the billions that move through official ODA channels every year. But it would be a mistake for the aid community to dismiss June's mega charity merger as media hype; governments listen to tycoons, and Gates says he wants to shape public policy.
So, how is philanthrocapitalism going to benefit the 'customers' -- the 1 billion people living in extreme poverty?
According to the Gates Foundation website, passion will be a big factor: 'We take risks, make big bets, and move with urgency.' Interestingly, many of the foundation's '15 guiding principles' would look at home in a corporate mission statement. The emphasis is on making the first move, innovation and focus. Not surprisingly, the role of science and technology gets heavy play, as does the need to show results.The software pioneer wants to shake up bureaucratic inertia in the aid community, relying on 'partnerships' rather than costly administration.
After six y"
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Sunday, December 03, 2006
Finding Shelter in the Philippines
Finding Shelter in the Philippines - CANADA INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Search Results - Developing Country Transactions - The World Bank Group
PRIVATIZATION DATABASE (PHILIPPINES) Search Results - Developing Country Transactions - The World Bank Group
Friday, November 24, 2006
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Monday, November 20, 2006
Saturday, November 18, 2006
MERCAPESCA.NET - News
MERCAPESCA.NET - News: "Philippines Install FAD’s To Boost Coastal Community Fisheries
FADs could prevent the fish stocks from multiplying since even small fish are at risk of being caught by fishermen
The Provincial Board of Sarangani recently approved the guidelines that will govern the implementation of a fishing method to attract tuna and other fish varieties across Sarangani Bay. It came over a year after the Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources and the Sarangani government headed by Sarangani governor Miguel Rene Dominguez signed a contract establishing a fish shelter project at the bay worth P5 million.
Source: Editorial Staff
17/11/2006
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FADs could prevent the fish stocks from multiplying since even small fish are at risk of being caught by fishermen
The Provincial Board of Sarangani recently approved the guidelines that will govern the implementation of a fishing method to attract tuna and other fish varieties across Sarangani Bay. It came over a year after the Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources and the Sarangani government headed by Sarangani governor Miguel Rene Dominguez signed a contract establishing a fish shelter project at the bay worth P5 million.
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About FinCEN : Overview
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Documents & Reports - Search Results
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Biotech
Broadband
B2B?Internet
Europe 2001
Internet
Internet?
Architecture
Internet?
Infrastructure
Market?2000+
Oil Services
Pharmaceutical
Regional?Bank
Retail
Semiconductor
Software
Telecom
Utilities
Wireless
HOLDRS can offer real value to investors of all kinds: to fans of indexing, to tax-conscious investors, to cost-sensitive investors, to sector investors and to active stock pickers. Use HOLDRS to achieve your financial objectives more effectively:
HOLDRS as an inexpensive way to own a basket of stocks. Financial and Internet technologies are dramatically lowering the cost of trading and owning stocks. HOLDRS are at the forefront of this revolution. You buy HOLDRS just like a stock. With each HOLDR, you get ownership in 20 or more stocks, but you pay only a single commission. And the annual fees on HOLDRS are inexpensive�only eight cents per HOLDR. Assuming you bought 100 shares of a HOLDR with a market price of $100, the annual fee on your $10,000 investment would be $8 (or 0.08%, expressed as a percentage). And it can get even better: The annual fee is waived to the extent that dividends and cash distributions on the underlying stocks are not enough to cover the fee.
HOLDRS as an alternative to index funds. Are you serious about having low taxes and low fees on your investments? For good reason, indexing has been your traditional answer. But even index funds need to trade their portfolios in order to meet investor redemptions, satisfy fund concentration limits or match changes to an index. This trading frequently increases costs and could impose tax liabilities on investors"
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