Type one or more search terms into the search box and click on the search button.
The search engine does not distinguish between lowercase and uppercase letters.
A results page will be produced: a list of web pages related to your search terms, with the most relevant page appearing first, then the next, and so on.
Boolean operators
The operator AND is set as default between words. You can combine several words or phrases by using the logical operators ‘OR’ and ‘AND’.
You can also use plus or minus marks for including or excluding words (see below).
Ranking
The more of the words that are present in the page, the higher is the score.
If words appear in the same order as in your query, and close to each other, the score of the document gets high.
Phrase Search
Use quotation marks to compound phrases. If you wish to search for a phrase, you write text inside “…”quotation marks.
Eg. "African studies"
Truncation
Use * for truncation of search terms. A search term does not always have to be entered in its complete form. Search terms may be truncated from left or right.
Eg. Tanza* or even *anza*
Prioritizing Words
Plus marks a word as necessary. By preceding a word or a phrase with a plus sign, you tell the search engine that you are only looking for documents that contain that word/phrase.
Eg. +policy +activities
Word Exclusion
Minus marks a word as not wanted. By preceding a word or phrase with a minus sign, you tell the search engine to exclude that word/phrase and only to look for documents that match the rest of the query.
Eg. nordic -africa –institute
Contact: Julia.Leininger@die-gdi.de
THIS PANEL HAS BEEN CANCELLED (14 June 2011)
|
Donors are important (external) political actors in the formulation of policies in African countries; they are thus a factor in local power politics. Against this background social science research focuses mostly on donors’ behaviour and policy-formulation. In contrast, the opposite relationship has hardly come under scrutiny. We do not know if and how African agendas have influenced the donors’ policies. This panel aims at answering the questions on the extent to which African states shape donors’ agendas.
African states have tried to gain ownership of donor activities inter alia through the creation of Pan-African initiatives which develop and offer “home-grown” solutions which compete with donor models in national policy arenas. Donors have committed to an aid effectiveness agenda (Paris Declaration of 2005, Accra Agenda for Action of 2008), which stipulates that aid recipient countries should “own” national policies and programmes and donors should align to these. At the continental level, the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), African states formulated principles and rules which shall assure African ownership. What behavioural and institutional mechanisms are in place to effectively influence donors’ policies? How do they sit with older settings, such as the ACP-EU Agreement? How are emerging forces in Africa (China, India) influenced by pan-African policy initiatives? In order to explore the relationship, papers will offer in-depth studies of African initiatives and international donors’ instruments of cooperation.
|
Accepted Abstracts
Promoting Regional Integration in Africa: The EU as an External Actor
AUC-NEPAD’s ‘Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme’: Progress and Challenges in Partnership Development with the North
