The Last 10 Per Cent: Why the World Needs a Leaner, More Innovative and Pragmatic Development Sector, Today

Cover
Endorsement Page
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Is a little bit of sunlight the disinfectant the aid sector needs?
	Notes
Chapter 1: How the West got rich, and other curious questions around human development
	1.1 12,000 years of progress: from the Neolithic to the Industrial Revolution
	1.2 The rise of “cut and paste” development assistance
	1.3 It’s governance, stupid
	1.4 Human Development 101: how modern development theories translate into aid strategies
	1.5 What can development scholars agree on?
	Notes
Chapter 2: Broken, by design
	2.1 Myth 1: development aid is provided strictly for altruistic reasons
	2.2 Myth 2: recipient states always channel aid into poverty reduction
	2.3 Myth 1 + myth 2 = a principal-agent problem
	2.4 Check and balance 1: rules for project selection, monitoring and evaluation
		2.4.1 The weakest link problem
		2.4.2 The crowding-out problem
	2.5 Check and balance 2: organisational culture
	2.6 Assembling the pieces: how political economy limits the utility of aid
	2.7 Conclusion: the Tsunami of forces driving aid ineffectiveness approaches a crossroads
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Chapter 3: Towards the aid sector we need
	3.1 What matters to donors?
	3.2 What matters to beneficiary governments?
	3.3 Leveraging interests on the ground
	3.4 Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 4: The Samaritan dilemma: Promoting good governance in fragile and poverty-affected states
	4.1 Democracy or bust
	4.2 Promoting good governance in post-conflict states
	4.3 Keep your autocrats
	4.4 A three-point plan for better strategies
	4.5 Practical steps towards an evidence-rich environment
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Chapter 5: Innovating humanitarian response
	5.1 A crash course in refugee response
	5.2 An idea is born
	5.3 From an idea to a plan
	5.4 The London Compact Agreements
	5.5 Things fall apart
		5.5.1 Insufficient demand
		5.5.2 The cost of integration
		5.5.3 Data imperfections
		5.5.4 A perfect storm
	5.6 A proof of concept
	5.7 Show me the money
		5.7.1 The devil you know
		5.7.2 The new kid on the block
		5.7.3 The devil you don’t know
		5.7.4 Insuring against risk
	5.8 Where to from here – the future of UNHCR?
		5.8.1 Towards an innovation culture
		5.8.2 The power of data
		5.8.3 The power of moments
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Chapter 6: Exploiting the sweet spots
	6.1 Responding to violent extremism: a brief historical overview
		6.1.1 Countering violent extremism mark 1: bad ideas, even worse programs
		6.1.2 Research-rethink-reprogram-repeat
	6.2 Towards a more effective framework for fighting violent extremism
		6.2.1 A safe space for dissent and radical ideology
		6.2.2 From counter-messaging to critical thinking
		6.2.3 Assuaging a heavy-handed state
	6.3 A critical juncture
	6.4 The power of the superpowers
	6.5 The opportunity within – imagining the moment that wasn’t
	6.6 The role of the development sector
	6.7 What to do with all the children?
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Chapter 7: Playing politics to win
	7.1 Fighting the good fight, and losing
		7.1.1 Strategies, good and bad, for closing the gender gap
		7.1.2 When change has happened – clues from the global south
		7.1.3 The formula behind the success
	7.2 The climate change challenge: sceptics, economic losers and ideology
		7.2.1 Climate change discontents and what they can tell us
		7.2.2 The politics of decarbonisation
		7.2.3 Enter the development community
	7.3 How change really happens
	7.4 New rules of the game: rethinking climate and gender strategies
		7.4.1 Climate strategies
		7.4.2 Gender strategies
	7.5 What of awareness-raising and advocacy? Deploying people power where it counts
		7.5.1 Ceding ground to popular media
		7.5.2 Think like an advertiser
		7.5.3 Consumer superpower
	7.6 Development takeaways
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Chapter 8: Development beyond the development sector
	8.1 Unlikely allies – harnessing the power of remittances and zakat
	8.2 Angels of the deep
	8.3 Gain for good
	8.4 One final battle: overcoming divisions around globalisation
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Chapter 9: Charting a pathway towards enhanced aid effectiveness
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Index