Project-Level Aid: A Closer Look At Development Assistance
Project-Level Aid (PLAID) is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary project whose objective is to create a web-accessible database on development finance. The final product will include information on every individual project committed by bilateral and multilateral aid donors since 1973. Among many other necessary steps toward a better understanding of the consequences of aid, the comprehensive data provided by this project can help improve aid coordination, assist in measuring the effectiveness of development finance, and, ultimately, provide information for better allocation decisions by donor governments. Read More »
In the Spotlight: PLAID
Too Late for Latin America to Adapt?
May 2009 | By J. Timmons Roberts and Guy Edwards
Rainforests could dry up and die back; semi arid regions like the Brazilian Northeast and much of Central America risk becoming useless for agriculture; hurricanes and flooding increasingly pound Caribbean coasts and villages, leaving roads and bridges smashed in their wake. As the region warms, diseases carried by tropical insects spread to new areas. Urban smog and asthma are multiplied by heat waves.
PLAID on the Cover of Envrionment Magazine
January/February 2009 | "Has Foreign Aid Been Greened" By J. Timmons Roberts, Bradley Parks, Michael Tierney, and Robert Hicks
Since the first major international conference on environment and development in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1972, environmentalists, voters, and policymakers in the developed world have faced a vexing dilemma: with some of the richest stores of biodiversity, natural resources, and carbon located in developing countries, the greatest potential for damage to the global environment resides in places outside the sovereign control of the countries most able, financially speaking, to prevent it...
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Oversees Development Institute Hosts PLAID Project for Discussion of Greening Aid?
Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2008 1:00-2:15 p.m. | 111 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7JD
The Oversees Development Institute and the Oxford University Press hosted a discussion of the PLAID project's new book Greening Aid? Understanding the Environmental Impact of Development Assistance. The discussion featured co-authors J. Timmons Roberts and Bradley C. Parks. Other discussants included Camilla Toulmin, Director of the International Institute for Environment and Development, and Seán Doolan, Environmental Advisor for the Africa Division of the Department for International Development. The discussion was chaired by Neil Bird, a Research Fellow at the Forests, Environment, and Climate Change Program at ODI.
Tor read about and listen to audio from the event click here. View the event slides here.
Wilson Center Hosts PLAID Project for Discussion of New Book, Greening Aid?
Wednesday, June 11, 2008 @3:00-5:00 p.m. | 1300 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, 6th Floor Auditorium
The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ Environmental Change and Security Program and the World Resources Institute hosted a discussion of the PLAID project's new book Greening Aid. The discussion featured co-authors J. Timmons Roberts, Michael J. Tierney, and Bradley C. Parks. The event also featured comments from Robert Goodland, former Environmental Advisor at the World Bank and opening remarks were provided by Manish Bapna, Executive Vice President and Managing Director, World Resources Institute.
The power point slides from the event are available here.
Greening Aid? Eve Celebration
Tuesday, June 10, 2008 6:00 p.m. | The William & Mary Washington Office, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Building, Choate Room, 1st Floor, 1779 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Professor Timmons Roberts, Professor Rob Hicks, Professor Mike Tierney '87, and Brad Parks '03 celebrated the publishing of their book Greening Aid? Understanding the Environmental Impact of Development Assistance. Reception began at 6:00 p.m, followed by a brief program. W&M alumni, students, friends, and guests attended the event.
Greening Aid? Understanding the Environmental Impact of Development Assistance
By Robert L. Hicks, Bradley C. Parks, J. Timmons Roberts, Michael J. Tierney
Every year, billions of dollars of environmental aid flow from the rich governments of the North to the poor governments of the South. Why do donors provide this aid? What do they seek to achieve? How effective is the aid given? And does it always go to the places of greatest environmental need? All of these questions and many more are addressed in this groundbreaking text, which is based on the authors' work compiling the most comprehensive dataset of foreign aid ever assembled. Order Now