International Development

Development policies are being pulled in opposing directions and as a result lack direction. Development aid remains a crucial focus of international politics for both moral and strategic reasons, but radical, yet forceful voices are calling for its end. Assertive new players from large private foundations to new donors like China are proposing new approaches to fighting poverty and providing global public goods, while old donor governments are fundamentally rethinking their strategies.

GPPi contributes to making development cooperation more effective and more accountable by analyzing, evaluating and developing innovative strategies. We focus on the roles of companies, private foundations and emerging donors as well as systems for allocating aid and evaluating programs and mechanisms to promote and assess private sector development.

The Role of Private Actors in Africa’s Aid Landscape: Country Case Uganda

The World Bank has commissioned GPPi to conduct the country case study on Uganda to identify private donors active in Uganda; analyze the scale, sustainability and dynamics within this aid landscape; and identify opportunities to improve impact...

Adaptation and Refinement of the World Bank’s Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA)

The World Bank has periodically revised the CPIA criteria since their inception in the 1970s. As part of these reviews, the criteria were refined, new criteria were added, others discarded and the CPIA process was modified...

"Towards Global Partnerships": Development of the Secretary-General’s Report

Developing the UN Secretary-General’s Report "Towards Global Partnerships", which will be presented at the 62nd session of the General Assembly.

Corporate Engagement in Disaster Preparedness and Humanitarian Response

In recent years commercial actors have begun to play a growing role in development assistance and conflict prevention.

Review of the Global Reporting Initiative

During the past decade, reporting on non-financial indicators ("sustainability reporting") has seen tremendous growth...

The U.N. and Partnerships

Taking Stock and Sketching a Way Forward

SEED Initiative Research & Learning Channel

The Seed Initiative aimed to inspire, support and build the capacity of locally-driven entrepreneurial partnerships...

Exploring and Analyzing Accountability in Global Governance

In recent years, the concept of accountability has emerged as one of the key approaches in the search for new modes of democratic governance ...

Quantitative Assessment of German Capital Flows to Developing Countries

Over the past two decades, a shift has been visible from Official Development Aid (ODA)-centered funding for development to a situation where private giving and financial transactions at market terms match – and exceed – public flows...

The Role of Private Donors in International Development

Private donors are playing an increasingly significant role in international development...

Design and implementation of a working group on "Private sector engagement in development: Towards impact and sustainability"

GPPi will organize a working group track entitled "Private sector engagement in development: Towards impact and sustainability". In this working group track, the promises and pitfalls of public-private development partnerships will be explored...

Development of a Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for the Gender Standby Capacity Project (GenCap)

The Interagency Standing Committee Sub-Working Group on Gender in Humanitarian Action is making a sustained and coordinated attempt to introduce gender expertise into humanitarian situations through the Gender Standby Capacity Project (GenCap)...

External review of CGIAR Challenge Programs

GPPiC Managing Director Markus Palenberg has been appointed as governance and management expert to the expert panels of three CGIAR Challenge Program external reviews (CPERs)