{"id":639,"date":"2025-10-02T03:50:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/pollard-amy\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T03:50:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:50:58","slug":"pollard-amy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/pollard-amy\/","title":{"rendered":"Pollard Amy"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"content column wide left normal content view\" id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"rounded-corner\"><\/div>\n<article class=\"fader\">\n<header class=\"contents\">\n<h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAmy Pollard<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"author_addthis\">\n<div class=\"addthis\">\n\t<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style\" addthis:title=\"Pollard Amy\">\n\t\t<a class=\"addthis_button_facebook_like\" fb:like:layout=\"button_count\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<a class=\"addthis_button_tweet\" tw:via=\"thebrokeronline\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<a class=\"addthis_counter addthis_pill_style\"><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n\t\t<!-- AddThis Button END -->\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"body contents\">\n<div class=\"object-left\">\n<div class=\"img border\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><b>Amy Pollard<\/b> is a policy analyst on aid effectiveness at the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD), London, UK, and editor of the journal, Anthropology Matters. Her PhD was a social anthropological study of aid donors in Indonesia, describing their attempts to develop harmonized aid programmes on decentralization. It was completed at the University of Cambridge in 2009. Previously, she was a research officer at the Overseas Development Institute, London, focusing on the influence of research on policy processes. She has worked as a consultant to the UK Department for International Development (DFID), the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"children\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<section class=\"children related\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"wleft\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/extension\/broker\/design\/broker\/images\/no-image.png\" alt=\"Sumner raises profound questions\"><\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"wright\">\n<header>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\">Sumner raises profound questions<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/pollard-amy\/\">Amy Pollard<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t20 December 2025<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h4>\n<\/header>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n\t\t\tAndy Sumner\u2019s research on the new bottom billion has been on the lips of almost every development professional I know for the last few months. The revelation that 75% of poor people might actually live in middle-income, rather than low-income coun&#8230;\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\">read more<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"children related\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"wleft\">\n<div class=\"img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\"><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"wright\">\n<header>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\">United in disharmony <\/a><\/h3>\n<h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/pollard-amy\/\">Amy Pollard<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tApril 13, 2025<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h4>\n<\/header>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n\t\t\tHarmonizing aid seems like a straightforward, sensible thing to do. But how easy has it been in practice? Amy Pollard tells of the challenges involved in establishing a multi-donor office in Indonesia, while Rosalind Eyben assesses the implication&#8230;\n\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"icons\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/themes\/global-development-strategies\/\" title=\"Global Development Strategies\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/themes\/global-development-strategies\/88488-14-eng-gb\/global-development-strategies_tiny_icon.png\" alt=\"Global Development Strategies\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t<a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\">read more<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"navigator\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false,"raw":""},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Pollard Amy Pollard is a policy analyst on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template_4.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-639","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pollard Amy \/ Authors - The Broker<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Amy Pollard is a policy analyst on aid effectiveness at the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD), London, UK, and editor of the journal, Anthropology Matters. 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