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Posts Tagged: Aid EffectivenessHaiti: Where Has All the Money Gone? – Vijaya Ramachandran and Julie WalzMay 15, 2012Posted by Lawrence MacDonald in Aid Effectiveness Tags: Aid Effectiveness, Haiti, USAID
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Comment »Engagement Amid Austerity: Reorienting the International Affairs Budget — Connie Veillette and John NorrisMarch 20, 2012Posted by Lawrence MacDonald in Aid Effectiveness, Rethinking US Foreign Assistance Tags: Aid Effectiveness
The U.S. political environment has changed significantly since 2007 when President Obama promised to double U.S. foreign assistance. As the 2012 election cycle presses on, cutting the budget and reducing the deficit are on the minds of many. What does this mean for U.S. foreign assistance? My guests on this week’s Wonkcast, Connie Veillette, CGD’s director of the Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance Program, and John Norris, executive director of the Sustainable Security and Peacebuilding Initiative at the Center for American Progress (CAP), have a blueprint for making U.S. foreign assistance more focused and effective amid budget austerity. Podcast: Play in new window | Download 2 Comments »Busan’s Lasting Legacy – Owen BarderJanuary 10, 2012Posted by Lawrence MacDonald in Aid Effectiveness Tags: Aid Effectiveness
I recently interviewed Owen Barder, CGD senior fellow and director for Europe, shortly after his return from the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan, South Korea. Did the December forum, with some 3,000 participants from around the world, matter to development? Podcast: Play in new window | Download Comment »Measuring the Quality of Aid (QuODA) – Homi Kharas and Rita PerakisNovember 14, 2011Posted by Lawrence MacDonald in Aid Effectiveness Tags: Aid Effectiveness
On November 29th, aid donor and recipients will convene in Busan, South Korea at the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness. In this week’s Wonkcast, I speak with Homi Kharas, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Rita Perakis, program coordinator at the Center for Global Development, about the new 2011 Brookings-CGD Quality of Official Development Assistance assessment (QuODA) and how it can help to hold donors accountable to their own aid effectiveness pledges. Homi explains that he and Nancy Birdsall began work on QuODA after aid effectiveness forums in Paris and Accra drew international attention to the importance of aid quality. Previously the debate had focused almost entirely on quantity and how well recipients used aid, rather than the problems and opportunities in how the aid was delivered. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Comment »Nancy Birdsall on Cash on Delivery AidFebruary 17, 2010Posted by Lawrence MacDonald in Aid Effectiveness, Education, Global Development Tags: Aid Effectiveness, Cash on Delivery Aid, Education, Foreign Aid, Nancy Birdsall
Can aid donors find a better way to deliver aid? My guest this week is Nancy Birdsall, president of the Center for Global Development. Along with William Savedoff and Ayah Mahgoub, Nancy is working on a potential new way of disbursing foreign assistance called Cash on Delivery Aid. COD Aid seeks to devise simple, results-based contracts that reward developing countries for making progress towards previously agreed goals—such as increased primary school completion rates, vaccination coverage, or access to clean water. In the podcast, Nancy explains that the traditional mode of giving aid, in which donors often take an active role in prescribing which actions recipient governments should take, can undermine incentives for governments to identify problems and design and implement locally appropriate solutions. “We have to create a system in which outside resources actually help the developing country governments find out what works in their particular setting,” says Nancy. Podcast: Play in new window | Download 3 Comments »
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Since the 2010 earthquake, $6 billion has been disbursed in official aid to help the people of Haiti. Nearly all of it has gone to intermediaries such as international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and private contractors. Yet there has been a surprising lack of reporting on how the money has been spent. CGD senior fellow 
