Lars Engberg-Pedersen

PhD MSc, International Development & Public Administration
Senior Researcher, Head of research unit on Politics and development
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Personal CV

Expertise

Development assistance, state formation, democracy, decentralisation, public sector reform, civil society, local politics, poverty reduction, institutional analysis with a focus on West Africa.

Selected projects and programmes

The future of development assistance. The purpose of the project is to discuss trends, challenges and constraints of development assistance in a changing world order.

Selected publications

The Future of Danish Foreign Aid: the Best of the Second-best? in Danish Foreign Policy Yearbook 2009.

Fragile situations: Current debates and central dilemmas. With Louise Andersen and Finn Stepputat. Copenhagen: DIIS Report 2008:9.

Danish domestic politics, the Paris Declaration and development – a harmonious relationship? (in Danish). In Den Ny Verden, vol. 40, no. 3. 2007.

Endangering development: Politics, projects, and environment in Burkina Faso. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger. 2003.

In the name of the poor: Contesting political space for poverty reduction. Ed. with Neil Webster. London: Zed Books. 2002.

Selected commissioned work

2008 Coordinator of DIIS study on support to fragile states (Danida).

2007 Formulation of programme support for good governance and decentralisation in Burkina Faso (Danida).

2007 Civil society policy study (Danida).

2007 Formulation of programme support to the agricultural sector in Mali (Danida).

2006 Identification of programme support to the agricultural sector in Mali (Danida).

Selected research related activities

2006-8 Board member, Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke (a major Danish development NGO).

2004-6 Senior Technical Advisor in the ministry in charge of decentralisation, Burkina Faso.

2000-4 International Director in Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke.

1992-2000 Researcher at Centre for Development Research.

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