Nils-Sjard Schulz
Researcher and independent consultant
Humanitarian Action and Development

Masters Degree in Social Sciences at the
His current projects at FRIDE are addressing the impact of donor harmonisation on partner countries' democratisation, the political implications of division of labour and the promotion of accountability mechanisms in oil and gas producing developing countries.
Recently, he collaborated with the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) at the OECD in the evaluation of the Paris Declaration (thematic study on aid effectiveness and development effectiveness, see pdf), the 2008 Survey on Monitoring the Paris Declaration and the Accra High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness.
Geo tags
Europe European Union Latin America & Caribbean Sub-Saharan Africa
Expert in
Aid effectiveness Council of Europe Development Development aid Development cooperation Division of labour EU Evaluation Harmonization Political economy Spain Spanish Aid
Spoken languages
English, German, Spanish
Written languages
English, German, Spanish
Current projects
"Implications of division of labour for the new aid architecture" // "Converting oil and gas into development: A comparative study on EITI, PWYP and beyond" // "Donor harmonization and its impact on democratization: Looking for the nexus between aid effectiveness and democracy"
Expert publications
- 23/10/2008 - Accra, the day after
- 29/09/2008 - Perspectives for the global governance of aid
- 22/08/2008 - Building the global governance of aid
- 03/06/2008 - Ownership with adjectives
- 15/05/2007 - Division of labour among European donors: allotting the pie or committing to effectiveness?
- 14/05/2007 - Transparency as a Cure for the 'Resource Curse': global consensus and tasks pending for Spain




