Analysis
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Climate Disaster Aid Transparency Codebook
The codebook for the CEPSA Aid Transparency dataset investigates the availability and quality of project documentation for a randomly selected set of projects from five major donors and 11 countries in order to understand the availability and quality of basic project information and documentation. Download the dataset here.
The Current State of U.S.-Mexico Security Cooperation
In this working paper, Stephanie Leutert, the Director of the Mexico Security Initiative at the Strauss Center, examines the U.S.-Mexico security relationship. Leutert writes that both countries may emphasize the importance of the bilateral security relationship, but it’s one thing to statethat it is a priority in a speech and another thing to mobilize the…
Country Strategy Document Analysis
This brief serves as the detailed follow-up to the CEPSA aid researchers’ first analysis on the national CCA and DRR plans and their implementation in Bangladesh and Nepal. While that study relied heavily on interviews, this brief surveys national and donor strategies and plans for 11 countries in the South and South East Asian region. The…