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style="width:100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td id="section-content" valign="top"> <div id="featured" style="padding:0; border:0;"> </div> <div id="tabbed-navigation"> <div class="tabs"> <span id="tab_active" class="tab active" rel="open">Active</span> <span id="tab_completed" class="tab" rel="closed">Completed</span> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="tab-box open active"> <div class="item-initiative"> <h3 class="smaller"> <a href="/web/20120103151523/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/cdi" style="color:#035781; text-decoration: none;">2011 Commitment to Development Index</a> </h3> <p> description for initiative overview page </p> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="item-initiative"> <h3 class="smaller"> <a href="/web/20120103151523/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/carbonmonitoringforactioncarma" style="color:#035781; text-decoration: none;"><a target="_new" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120103151523/http://www.carma.org/">Carbon Monitoring for Action (CARMA)</a></a> </h3> <p> This online map and database presents the best available estimates of CO2 emissions for 50,000 power plants around the world and the identities of the 4,000 firms that own them. Power generation accounts for about one-quarter of global emissions. </p> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="item-initiative"> <h3 class="smaller"> <a href="/web/20120103151523/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/codaid" style="color:#035781; text-decoration: none;">Cash on Delivery (COD) Aid</a> </h3> <p> COD Aid is a new approach to aid delivery under which donors pay for measurable progress on specific outcomes; for example, a country could receive $100 for each additional child who completes primary school and takes a test. </p> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="item-initiative"> <h3 class="smaller"> <a href="/web/20120103151523/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/drugresistanceglobalhealth" style="color:#035781; text-decoration: none;">Combating Drug Resistance</a> </h3> <p> The initiative seeks practical ways to prevent or contain the emergence of drug resistance in such high-burden diseases as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria through improvements in common-property management, information flows, and stepped up research and development. </p> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="item-initiative"> <h3 class="smaller"> <a href="/web/20120103151523/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/forestmonitoringforactionforma" style="color:#035781; text-decoration: none;">Forest Monitoring for Action (FORMA)</a> </h3> <p> FORMA uses satellite data to generate regularly updated online maps of tropical forest clearing. Currently available for Indonesia from 2000 to the present, the maps support national forest conservation programs and international efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions. </p> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="item-initiative"> <h3 class="smaller"> <a href="/web/20120103151523/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/migration_data_commission" style="color:#035781; text-decoration: none;">Improving Migration Data</a> </h3> <p> CGD’s Commission on International Migration Data for Development Research identified steps to improve data collection so that researchers and policymakers have the numbers they need to assess the impact of migration. CGD continues to push for implementation. </p> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="item-initiative"> <h3 class="smaller"> <a href="/web/20120103151523/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/migration_tool_disaster_recovery" style="color:#035781; text-decoration: none;">Migration as a Tool for Disaster Recovery</a> </h3> <p> Every year natural disasters take a heavy toll on poor people in the developing world. High-income countries could do more to help, at very low cost, by admitting a limited number of the victims of natural disasters in lower income countries, in addition to providing traditional disaster relief. </p> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="item-initiative"> <h3 class="smaller"> <a href="/web/20120103151523/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/revenues_distribution" style="color:#035781; text-decoration: none;">Oil-to-Cash: Fighting the Resource Curse through Cash Transfers</a> </h3> <p> Natural resources and the unearned income they generate can stifle development by undermining the relationship between citizens and their state. This CGD initiative explores a policy option to encourage a “social contract” in resource-rich countries—direct distribution of revenues. </p> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="item-initiative"> <h3 class="smaller"> <a href="/web/20120103151523/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/pakistan" style="color:#035781; text-decoration: none;">Pakistan: U.S. Development Strategy in Pakistan</a> </h3> <p> CGD has convened the Study Group on a U.S. Development Strategy in Pakistan to draw lessons from past experiences and offer practical recommendations to U.S. policymakers on the effective deployment of foreign assistance and, more broadly, other non-aid instruments for achieving sustainable development in Pakistan. </p> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="item-initiative"> <h3 class="smaller"> <a href="/web/20120103151523/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/preventingodiousobligations" style="color:#035781; text-decoration: none;">Preventing Odious Obligations</a> </h3> <p> A country should not be responsible for debt or other long-term obligations incurred under an illegitimate government that does not serve the best interest of the nation, just as an individual does not have to repay money that someone fraudulently borrows in her name. This initiative sets out to identify ways to alleviate the burden these unjust transactions impose on successor governments and their citizens. </p> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="item-initiative"> <h3 class="smaller"> <a href="/web/20120103151523/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/reformingtradepreferences" style="color:#035781; text-decoration: none;">Reforming Trade Preferences</a> </h3> <p> Rich countries and some emerging powers offer poorer developing countries preferential market access, but the programs are often flawed and lack coordination. The initiative aims to reform trade preference programs to expand market access for the poorest countries. </p> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="item-initiative"> <h3 class="smaller"> <a href="/web/20120103151523/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/assistance" style="color:#035781; text-decoration: none;">Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance</a> </h3> <p> Building on the success of CGD’s MCA Monitor, this initiative offers information, dialogue, and analysis on U.S. foreign assistance reform. It aims to help elevate development and U.S. foreign assistance as a critical national interest priority. </p> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </div> <div class="tab-box closed"> <div class="item-initiative"> <h3 class="smaller"> <a href="/web/20120103151523/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_archive/evalgap" style="color:#035781; text-decoration: none;">Closing the Evaluation Gap</a> </h3> <p> A CGD working group recommended ways to address the paucity of good impact evaluations. CGD then led efforts to implement one key recommendation: establishing a new international entity to provide funding and technical support for rigorous impact evaluations. These efforts contributed to a rapid expansion of rigorous studies aimed at building evidence for better policies in developing countries and among donors. CGD continues to monitor the generation and use of impact evaluations through its Evaluation Gap Newsletter. </p> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="item-initiative"> <h3 class="smaller"> <a href="/web/20120103151523/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_archive/weakstates" style="color:#035781; text-decoration: none;">Commission on Weak States and US National Security</a> </h3> <p> In October 2003, CGD launched a bipartisan commission to outline a comprehensive U.S. strategy to address the growing threat of weak and failed states. The Commission’s report helped to shape reforms adopted by the Bush administration. </p> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="item-initiative"> <h3 class="smaller"> <a href="/web/20120103151523/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_archive/demandforecasting" style="color:#035781; text-decoration: none;">Demand Forecasting</a> </h3> <p> Shortcomings in demand forecasting for essential drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics have led to unnecessarily high prices, supply shortages, and reluctance to invest in R&D; for developing-country diseases. To address this challenge, CGD’s Global Health Forecasting Working Group issued recommendations for donors to make strategic investments that would improve access to information and better align forecasting incentives, ensuring that increasing donor funds for health are used effectively. </p> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="item-initiative"> <h3 class="smaller"> <a href="/web/20120103151523/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_archive/demographicsanddevelopment" style="color:#035781; text-decoration: none;">Demographics and Development in the 21st Century</a> </h3> <p> Population policy has been a radioactive topic in development circles. CGD worked to break the taboo on such discussions with a series of lectures about the importance of population issues in such areas as infrastructure, migration, and climate. </p> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="item-initiative"> <h3 class="smaller"> <a href="/web/20120103151523/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_archive/girlscountaglobalinvestmentandactioninitiative" style="color:#035781; text-decoration: none;">Girls Count: A Global Investment and Action Agenda</a> </h3> <p> The agenda describes why and how to provide adolescent girls in developing countries a full and equal chance in life. It offers targeted recommendations for national and local governments, donor agencies, civil society, and the private sector. </p> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="item-initiative"> <h3 class="smaller"> <a href="/web/20120103151523/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_archive/ghprn" style="color:#035781; text-decoration: none;">Global Health Policy Research Network</a> </h3> <p> The Global Health Policy Research Network served as an umbrella for a large number of CGD initiatives that undertook original, focused research on high-priority global health policy issues. </p> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="item-initiative"> <h3 class="smaller"> <a href="/web/20120103151523/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_archive/hivmonitor" style="color:#035781; text-decoration: none;">HIV/AIDS Monitor</a> </h3> <p> The Monitor tracked and analyzed the practices of the three major global HIV/AIDS aid initiatives: the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR); and the World Bank's Multi-Country HIV/AIDS Program (MAP). </p> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="item-initiative"> <h3 class="smaller"> <a href="/web/20120103151523/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_archive/imfprograms" style="color:#035781; text-decoration: none;">International Monetary Fund Programs and Health Spending</a> </h3> <p> The Working Group on IMF-Supported Programs and Health Expenditures investigated how macroeconomic policies under IMF programs in low-income countries interacted with the management of health spending in a context of scaled-up aid. Utilizing case studies and cross-country comparisons, the working group explored the evidence on what actually happened under IMF programs on the key issues where the IMF role has been criticized. The group concluded with six recommendations for the IMF as well as lessons for other stakeholders. </p> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="item-initiative"> <h3 class="smaller"> <a href="/web/20120103151523/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_archive/vaccinedevelopment" style="color:#035781; text-decoration: none;">Making Markets for Vaccines</a> </h3> <p> A CGD Working Group produced an economic and legal framework for funds to incentivize vaccine development. The G-7 Finance Ministers endorsed the approach and five donors (Canada, Italy, Norway, UK and Russia, and the Gates Foundation) committed $1.5 billion to create an incentive for a vaccine against the strains of pneumococcus disease prevalent in low-income countries. For updates, see Advance Market Commitments for Vaccines (http://www.vaccineamc.org/), a joint effort of the GAVI Alliance and the World Bank. </p> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="item-initiative"> <h3 class="smaller"> <a href="/web/20120103151523/http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_archive/millionssaved" style="color:#035781; text-decoration: none;">Millions Saved</a> </h3> <p> From eradication of polio in Latin America to HIV prevention in Thailand, the 17 cases in this study show that large-scale success in health are indeed possible. 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