I. Multilateral Donors (Global)
Development Gateway
The Development Gateway Foundation’s e-Government Grants Program provides a mechanism for the rapid implementation of locally-driven and scalable e-government initiatives in developing countries. It seeks to increase transparency in development processes and build local capacity to create new economic opportunities. It is particularly interested in the areas of procurement, accounting, statistics and international aid management. The objectives of the program are to:
• Increase transparency and efficiency in government operations
• Enhance the quality and effectiveness of governance
• Stimulate social and economic growth
Development Gateway Themes and Partners
e-Government Grants Program
This program aims to strengthen developing countries’ administrative systems. Particular emphasis is being placed on the improvement of financial management, development planning, public procurement and service delivery to citizens.
The e-Government Grants Program helps governments increase efficiency in the public sector through improved transparency and institutional capacity in critical areas. The program is a partnership with the Government of Italy and it is open to additional co-funders. Cooperating Organizations: Alfa Redi, Digital Partners, National Computerization Agency, Piazze Telematiche, The Council for Excellence in Government, UNPAN
Grant Criteria and Project Evaluation
The Development Gateway funds projects that are part of a national e-strategy designed to support overall development goals. Moreover, to ensure rapid implementation and immediate value for all partners, projects must rely on existing studies and plans that have already been endorsed by the implementing governments.
Project proposals are evaluated based on criteria such as: project characteristics, expected impact, demonstrated support, commitment, demonstrated capacity and management effectiveness, scalability, sustainability and replicability, integration with national ICT and e-government strategies and compatibility with national poverty reduction strategies.
Grants are typically under $500,000, although co-funding may increase the value of overall assistance.
European Commission Directorate General for Development
Our mission of the European Commission Directorate General for Development (EC DG Development) is to help to reduce and ultimately to eradicate poverty in developing countries and to promote sustainable development, democracy, peace and security.
DG Development works in close collaboration and interaction with the other Relex services of the European Commission (in particular the EuropeAid Co-operation Office, ECHO, and the Directorates General for External Relations, Trade). DG Development works in partnership with government, civil society, economic and social actors as well as the private sector in developing countries.
DC Development also co-ordinates the Community's relations with the sub-Saharan African, Caribbean and Pacific countries (ACP) and regions, including the African Union, as well as the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT). To this end, DG Development programs resources of the European Development Fund and prepares strategies for co-operation with ACP countries and Overseas Countries and Territories and monitors their implementation.
EC DG Development Institutions and Donors
DG Development provides policy guidance on development policy and oversees the programming of aid in the ACP countries (Africa, Caribbean and Pacific) and the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT). The Cotonou Agreement provides the framework for development aid to 77 ACP countries, funded mainly by the European Development Fund.
EC DG Development Themes
In January 2006, the Commission approved 7 new thematic programs implementing the Communication on Thematic Programmes:
• Human Rights and Democracy
• Environment and Sustainable Management of Natural Resources, including energy
• Non-state actors and Local Authorities in Development
• Food Security
• Cooperation with Industrialised Countries
• Migration and Asylum
• Investing in People
Europe Aid Cooperation Office (Mission)
As part of its efforts to reform the management of external aid the Commission formally set up the EuropeAid Co-operation Office on 1 January 2001. The mission of the EuropeAid Co-operation Office mission is to implement the external aid instruments of the European Commission, which are funded by the European Community budget and the European Development Fund.
EuropeAid Projects – General
EuropeAid Programmes and Projects - Democracy and Human Rights
EuropeAid Programmes and Projects - Elections
International Finance Corporation
The IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is a global investor and advisor committed to promoting sustainable projects in developing member countries that are economically beneficial, financially and commercially sound, and environmentally and socially sustainable.
IFC believes that sound economic growth is key to poverty reduction; that it is grounded in the development of entrepreneurship and successful private investment; and that a conducive business environment is needed for the latter to thrive and contribute to improving people's lives.
IFC promotes sustainable private sector development in developing countries. Our particular focus is to promote economic development by encouraging the growth of productive enterprise and efficient capital markets in its member countries.
IFC Member Countries
The International Finance Corporation has 178 member countries.
IFC Themes: Information and Communication Technologies
The GICT Department promotes access to information and communication technologies in developing countries. GICT serves as the core department for investment, policy, and programs related to information and communication technologies.
IFC Projects and Operations
The World Bank carries out projects and provides a wide variety of analytical and advisory services to help meet the development needs of individual countries and the international community.
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
The IMF is an international organization of 184 member countries. It was established to promote international monetary cooperation, exchange stability, and orderly exchange arrangements; to foster economic growth and high levels of employment; and to provide temporary financial assistance to countries to help ease balance of payments adjustment.
IMF Members
IMF Work Programs
The work of the IMF is of three main types. Surveillance involves the monitoring of economic and financial developments, and the provision of policy advice, aimed especially at crisis-prevention. The IMF also lends to countries with balance of payments difficulties, to provide temporary financing and to support policies aimed at correcting the underlying problems; loans to low-income countries are also aimed especially at poverty reduction. Third, the IMF provides countries with technical assistance and training in its areas of expertise. Supporting all three of these activities is IMF work in economic research and statistics.
In recent years, as part of its efforts to strengthen the international financial system, and to enhance its effectiveness at preventing and resolving crises, the IMF has applied both its surveillance and technical assistance work to the development of standards and codes of good practice in its areas of responsibility, and to the strengthening of financial sectors.
Technical Assistance
Technical assistance is one of the benefits of IMF membership. It is normally provided free of charge to any requesting member country, within IMF resource constraints. About three-quarters of IMF technical assistance goes to low and lower-middle income countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. Post-conflict countries are also major beneficiaries, with Timor-Leste, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, and Afghanistan among the top recipients in recent years. A wide range of other countries seek technical assistance to strengthen their capacities. In helping individual countries reduce weaknesses and vulnerabilities, technical assistance also contributes to a more robust and stable global economy.
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
The OECD groups 30 member countries sharing a commitment to democratic government and the market economy. With active relationships with some 70 other countries, NGOs and civil society, it has a global reach. Best known for its publications and its statistics, its work covers economic and social issues from macroeconomics, to trade, education, development and science and innovation.
The OECD plays a prominent role in fostering good governance in the public service and in corporate activity. It helps governments to ensure the responsiveness of key economic areas with sectoral monitoring. By deciphering emerging issues and identifying policies that work, it helps policy-makers adopt strategic orientations. It is well known for its individual country surveys and reviews.
OECD Member Countries
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Canada
Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
France |
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Korea |
Luxembourg
Mexico
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Slovak Republic |
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
United Kingdom
United States |
OECD e-Government Project
In 2001, the Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate (GOV) launched a project on e-government. The project explores how governments can best exploit information and communication technologies to embed good governance principles and achieve public policy goals. The key factors that distinguish this project from other work on e-government are the focus on the longer term and its attention to good governance and public administration reform.
A complementary aspect of the project is to carry out e-government country peer reviews at the request of individual Member countries. These reviews identify the strengths and weaknesses of national e-government policies and initiatives and the obstacles to successful implementation.
OECD e-Government Country Surveys and OtherIinformation
OECD Public Governance and Management
OPEC Fund for International Development
The OPEC Fund for International Development (the Fund) is an intergovernmental development finance institution established in 1976 by the member states of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.
All developing countries, with the exception of OPEC member countries, are in principle eligible for Fund assistance. The least developed countries, however, are accorded higher priority and have consequently attracted the greater share of the Fund's resources. So far, 119 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East and Europe have benefited from the Fund's financial assistance. The Fund has also cooperated, over the years, with a myriad of multilateral, bilateral, national, non-governmental and other organizations worldwide, joining resources and efforts to assist developing countries.
OPEC Fund Member Countries
Algeria
Gabon
Indonesia
Islamic Republic of Iran
Iraq
Kuwait |
GSP Libyan AJ
Nigeria
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
United Arab Emirates
Venezuela |
OPEC Fund Cooperating Partners
OPEC Fund Themes – Public and Private Sector Lending
The Fund makes loans to the governments of cooperating countries to support development operations across a wide range of social and economic sectors. Typical activities financed include agricultural development, the provision of basic infrastructure such as roads, energy supplies, clean water and sanitation services, and the construction of schools and hospitals.
The Fund's Private Sector Facility was established in 1998 in response to growing demand among partner countries for investment in private enterprise, as the engine of economic growth. A diversity of financing instruments is available, including loans, lines of credit, equity, quasi-equity and leasing. Financing may be given directly to private entities or channeled through intermediaries, such as local financial institutions.
OPEC Fund Public Sector Funding Regional Profiles
OPEC Fund Private Sector Funding Facility
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
UNDP is the UN's global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. UNDP has operations in 166 countries, working with them on their own solutions to global and national development challenges.
UNDP Themes
UNDP's focus is helping countries build and share solutions to the challenges of:
• Democratic Governance
• Poverty Reduction
• Crisis Prevention and Recovery
• Energy and Environment
• HIV/AIDS
UNDP Countries
UNDP Democratic Governance site
Democratic governance is central to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), as it provides the ‘enabling environment' for the realization of the MDGs and, in particular, the elimination of poverty. At the Millennium Summit of 2000, the world's leaders agreed that improving the quality of democratic institutions and processes, and managing the changing roles of the state and civil society in an increasingly globalised world must underpin national efforts to reduce poverty, sustain the environment, and promote human development.
UNDP's core services to support national processes of democratic transitions focus on: (1) Policy advice and technical support; (2) Strengthening capacity of institutions and individuals (3) Advocacy, communications, and public information; (4) Promoting and brokering dialogue; and (5) Knowledge networking and sharing of good practices.
UNDP Democratic Governance Thematic Trust Fund
UNDP relies on a new instrument -- Thematic Trust Funds -- to help achieve development goals. These funds enable donors to provide additional contributions for work in the UNDP practice areas. They support a multi-year funding framework -- a compact among donors, host governments and UNDP to implement results-oriented programs at the country, regional and global levels.
The Democratic Governance Thematic Trust Fund (DGTTF) was established in 2001 as a new instrument providing UNDP with additional (non core) resources to address development priorities in Democratic Governance. The DGTTF has the following three strategic objectives:
• To provide an alternative to traditional funding arrangements (core and project-by-project cost-sharing), by functioning as a
fast and flexible funding mechanism for innovative UNDP projects in Democratic Governance, mainly at the country level;
• To support the Democratic Governance Practice Area at the global and level;
• To provide a driving force for substantive and geographical alignment around the strategic focus of UNDP in the area of
Democratic Governance, as expressed in the organisation's four year strategic planning framework: the Second Multi-Year
Funding Framework (MYFF) 2004-2007.
Contributions from donors to the DGTTF can be made through three different “Windows”:
• Country Windows: for funds earmarked to specific countries for thematic activities
• Regional Windows: for funds earmarked to specific regional programmes for thematic activities
• Global Windows: for non-earmarked thematic contributions, for country, regional and global use.
UNDP Oslo Governance Centre
The UNDP Oslo Governance Centre is UNDP's global thematic facility on democratic governance. The Centre has been established to position UNDP as a champion of democratic governance, as an end in itself, and as a means to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. This is done through knowledge networking and multi-disciplinary team work, as well as through close partnerships with leading policy and research institutions, both in the ‘north’ and the ‘south’. The Centre has a special focus and competency in the areas of: governance and poverty reduction; governance and conflict prevention; civil society, empowerment and governance; and learning and capacity development.
United Nations Online Network in Public Administration and Finance
The mission of the United Nations Online Network in Public Administration and Finance –(UNPAN) is to promote the sharing of knowledge, experiences and best practices throughout the world in sound public policies, effective public administration and efficient civil services, through capacity-building and cooperation among the United Nations Member States, with emphasis on south-south cooperation.
UNPAN Themes
UNPAN’s resources cover: Governance systems and institutions; Public service and management innovation; Social and economic governance; Public financial management; Knowledge systems and e-government
UNPAN Partners
UNPAN Projects by Region
World Bank
The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. It is made up of two development institutions owned by 184 member countries—the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA). The IBRD focuses on middle income and creditworthy poor countries, while IDA focuses on the poorest countries in the world. Together they provide low-interest loans, interest-free credit and grants to developing countries for education, health, infrastructure, communications and many other purposes.
World Bank Members
World Bank Partners
World Bank Projects
In 2005, the World Bank provided $20.1 billion for 245 projects in developing countries worldwide, along with financial and/or technical expertise aimed at helping those countries reduce poverty.
The bank is involved in more than 1,800 projects in virtually every sector and developing country. The projects are as diverse as providing microcredit in Bosnia and Herzegovina, raising AIDS-prevention awareness in Guinea, supporting education of girls in Bangladesh, improving health care delivery in Mexico, and helping East Timor rebuild upon independence and India rebuild Gujarat after a devastating earthquake.
World Bank Project Database
World Bank Public Sector Governance site
A fundamental role of the Bank is to help governments work better. The Public Sector Group’s objectives are based on building efficient and accountable public sector institutions -- rather than simply providing discrete policy advise.
Two key objectives of the Public Sector Group are:
• to strengthen and deepen the Bank's work on public sector institutional reform, and
• to design and help implement the Bank's anticorruption strategy.
The Public Sector Board’s areas of responsibility include:
• Governance, including the planning and implementation of the Bank’s anticorruption agenda.
• Public finance, including the Bank’s microeconomic work in public expenditure analysis and tax policy, and
• Public sector institutional reform.
• Institutional reform in the public sector is a cross-cutting issue that touches virtually all of the Bank’s projects. The Bank’s
lending for stand-alone projects in public sector reform alone (a small subset of our total institutional development work)
totaled 2.4 billion dollars in FY00.
The Public Sector Group has developed many tools and resources to assist those working on Public Sector Governance:
• Thematic Groups: Thematic groups are knowledge networks in which members from within and outside the Bank can both
learn from other professionals and share experiences and information. The Public Sector Group manages 5 thematic groups -
Administrative and Civil Service Reform, Anticorruption, Decentralization and Subnational and Regional, Legal Institutions of
the Market Economy, and Public Finance.
• Websites: Each thematic group has launched a website to synthesize the best available knowledge, both theoretical and
operational, on that thematic area. These websites are intended to enhance the quality of the Bank's work and to serve as a
global resource for our many partners in development, including our client countries. All the sites have extensive links to the
websites of our partner organizations.
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