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Nils-Sjard Schulz

Researcher and independent consultant

Humanitarian Action and Development

Masters Degree in Social Sciences at the Humboldt University Berlin and specialization in International Relations at the Complutense University Madrid. His research focuses on the new aid architecture and is complemented by consultancies on aid effectiveness for several European and international organisms.

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

• 02/06/2008 - Transparency in the extractive sector: deepening Spain's commitment with the EITI

• 31/01/2008 - The Nicaragua challenge: upholding the Paris agenda in an agitated setting

• 07/12/2007 - Donor harmonisation and democratisation: are donors fit for politics?

• 21/11/2007 - Nicaragua: a rude awakening for the Paris Declaration

• 01/10/2007 - Donor harmonisation: between effectiveness and democratisation. Theoretical framework and methodology for country case studies

• 10/09/2007 - Donor harmonization and democratisation: new challenges for the development agenda

• 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

• 22/01/2007 - Germany's Double Presidency: any novelty for the international development agenda?

• 22/12/2006 - Challenges for Spanish development cooperation: towards an endogenous evaluation Model

• 27/11/2006 - The Plan Africa: limits and opportunities of the Spanish development cooperation

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