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Unpacking 'ownership' in development co-operation effectiveness: Perspectives of Southern recipients

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  • Debapriya Bhattacharya
  • Towfiqul Islam Khan
  • Najeeba Mohammed Altaf

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'Country ownership' continues to grow more as an idealized requirement than an operational concept for effective development co-operation. Provider countries often shy away from taking onboard recipient countries' development priorities, public financial management and procurement systems, results frameworks, and monitoring mechanisms. Based on the outputs of a research programme, this paper reviews the experience of six countries from three continents regarding the application of the concept of 'ownership' at the sectoral level in the respective countries.

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  • Debapriya Bhattacharya & Towfiqul Islam Khan & Najeeba Mohammed Altaf, 2023. "Unpacking 'ownership' in development co-operation effectiveness: Perspectives of Southern recipients," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2023-28, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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