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Assessment of Effectiveness of Czech Official Development Assistance in Period 1996-2010
Peštová, Michaela ; Novotný, Josef (advisor) ; Halaxa, Petr (referee)
This thesis deals with the assessment of the effectiveness of selected bilateral projects of Czech official development assistance. Main purpose is to assess how well were the projects prepared and what were their results and eventual impacts. On the basis of aid effectiveness literature and manuals and handbooks for project management some main recommended principles and components of the ideal project design were specified. These principles and components were confronted with the reality of selected Czech development projects, the way these projects were design and with results they brought. These information were gathered by undertaking an own survey among projects leaders and through analysis of existing evaluation reports. In general, the design of considered projects has not been found sufficiently coherent with the recommended principles. Projects' results have not been as good as was expected. Although many of the considered principles had already been well known a long time before the evaluated projects were implemented, it has to be noted that there were no common standards formally declared in the Czechia in the time when these projects were formulated and implemented. Key words: development cooperation, aid effectiveness, project cycle management, Czechia
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Assessment of Effectiveness of Czech Official Development Assistance in Period 1996-2010
Peštová, Michaela ; Novotný, Josef (advisor) ; Halaxa, Petr (referee)
This thesis deals with the assessment of the effectiveness of selected bilateral projects of Czech official development assistance. Main purpose is to assess how well were the projects prepared and what were their results and eventual impacts. On the basis of aid effectiveness literature and manuals and handbooks for project management some main recommended principles and components of the ideal project design were specified. These principles and components were confronted with the reality of selected Czech development projects, the way these projects were design and with results they brought. These information were gathered by undertaking an own survey among projects leaders and through analysis of existing evaluation reports. In general, the design of considered projects has not been found sufficiently coherent with the recommended principles. Projects' results have not been as good as was expected. Although many of the considered principles had already been well known a long time before the evaluated projects were implemented, it has to be noted that there were no common standards formally declared in the Czechia in the time when these projects were formulated and implemented. Key words: development cooperation, aid effectiveness, project cycle management, Czechia
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The Czech Republic as an Emerging Donor Country and the Policy Change towards Aid Effectiveness
Trousil, Pavel ; Nekola, Martin (advisor) ; Horký-Hlucháň , Ondřej (referee)
In an analysis of the development of the Czech foreign aid policy, I use the advocacy coalition framework (ACF) to examine what policy change towards aid effectiveness has occurred from the mid-1990's to the present. Using this explanatory framework, I suggest that the changes towards aid effectiveness, which have occurred during this period, are minor rather than major ones. I argue that during this time the Czech foreign aid policy has been dominated by a belief system of the majority coalition that represents a realistic approach to foreign aid policy based on self-interested interests such as mutual interests, commercial motives or political and strategic interests. By the application of the ACF, I attempt to explain the policy process and the reasons why a major policy change has not occurred. In this analysis, I argue that in spite of the processes external to the policy subsystem (e.g. the occurrence of aid effectiveness movement), the minority coalition, whose belief system is mainly represented by altruistic motives and the support for increasing aid effectiveness, has not had enough policy-relevant resources to press for a major policy change. I argue that the conflict between the coalitions is driven by normative beliefs and that it is more likely that there will be incremental policy...
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Success of development aid? Case study Somalia from 1991
Holanová, Petra ; Přikryl, Pavel (advisor) ; Bureš, Oldřich (referee)
Thesis "Success" of Development Aid? The Case Study of Somalia 1991 to Present deals in its first part with the Somali Republic itself, introduces the main characteristics of this, almost not functioning, nevertheless de iure still existing country in Sub-Saharan Africa. It briefly outlines the important events of last decades and highlights some of the main past and current issues that make the situation in the state catastrophic. In its second part the thesis aims to cope with some of the most important problems of Somali Republic. Then it shortly describes which actors are the most involved in the development efforts in Somalia and which development plans and programmes are essential for this country. The thesis also outlines the main ideas of several development plans. In the last part it analyzes the success of development efforts in domains of Security, Governance and Internally Displaced Persons. The progress in Millennium Development Goals is evaluated as well.
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EU Development Policy: How the Member States Implement Commitments in the Area of Aid Effectiveness and Financial Volume
Šutová, Martina ; Šlosarčík, Ivo (advisor) ; Dubský, Zbyněk (referee)
Development cooperation is nowadays a highly discussed topic, especially in the context of its effectiveness. In the past years the European Union and the Organization for economic cooperation and development adopted several documents concerning aid effectiveness and possible ways of its improvement. The aim of this thesis is to find out, in the case of selected states (France, Sweden, and the Czech Republic), if they implement the commitments resulting from these documents into their national development policies and if they carry out their development cooperation in compliance with them. Since the commitments in this area overlap between the two organizations and both of them are trying to influence the states to fulfill their commitments, this thesis will also try to identify which of these organizations has a greater influence on the chosen states. Keywords EU development policy, Council Conclusions, Member States, OECD, aid effectiveness, financial commitments
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Development Cooperation in Kenya
Rosenkranc, Filip ; Stuchlíková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Hnát, Pavel (referee)
The thesis analyses development cooperation in Kenya, including an example of personally realized development project. The goal of the thesis is to find out what is the current state and direction of development cooperation in Kenya, demonstrate some of the problems of Kenya and their possible solutions using an example of personally visited region and realized development project and to determine whether this project corresponds to the current trend of development cooperation in the world and in Kenya. The first chapter characterizes the current political, economic and social situation on Kenya. Following parts analyze the Kenyan development strategies and current trends in the area of development cooperation at the global level and in Kenya. The last chapter describes personally realized development project which is then evaluated from the point of view of new paradigm of development cooperation and concerning the overall impact.
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Analysis of the effectiveness of Czech development cooperation in Moldova
Sendrea, Veronica ; Pavlík, Petr (advisor) ; Sudliankou, Aliaksandr (referee)
This thesis focuses on the analysis of the effectiveness of Czech development cooperation in Moldova according to the principles defined by the 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (ownership, alignment, harmonization, results and mutual accountability). The first chapter portrays the problematics of defining the concept of effectiveness in the context of global development cooperation. It starts with a brief characteristic of global development cooperation and subsequently focuses on the rise of the Aid Effectiveness paradigm and its embodiment in the Paris Declaration. The second chapter proceeds with the particular position of the Czech Republic and the Republic of Moldova in the global development cooperation system, analyzes their changes under the increasing influence of global trends, including the requirement for aid effectiveness, and sums up the manifestations of these facts in their bilateral development cooperation. The third chapter is an attempt at contextualizing the effectiveness principles in the Czech development cooperation with Moldova based on the 2011 Survey on Monitoring the Paris Declaration and comparing the performance of Czech Republic to that of other donors in Moldova.
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Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness in the Politics of Advanced Donors: Initial conditions, Dimensions, Implementation
Ludasová, Denisa ; Cihelková, Eva (advisor) ; Bič, Josef (referee)
This work is dedicated to the "Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness", a document which was signed in 2005. This declaration was designed to eliminate serious issues occurring during the distribution of development aid and also to contribute to the successful completion of the Millennium Development Goals through the increase of aid effectiveness. In the first part of this thesis several shortages that the development community has had to face are outlined. A detailed analysis of the document follows in the second chapter, also including an evaluation of the progress achieved from 2005 to 2008 when the last report on the status of implementing the Paris Declaration was issued. Special attention is given to the influence of the document over the policies of the World Bank, European Union and the Czech Republic. The illustration of implementing the Paris Declaration into policies of developing countries has been made using Ethiopia and Cambodia as examples. Finally, this work is concluded by evaluating the effects of the Paris Declaration on the system of development aid.
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