ECON 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Danish Refugee Council, Akanksha Singh, Aid Effectiveness
Document Summary
Public evaluations of programs effects is extremely rare. Most project evaluations are completed by the same agencies that carry out the project. They look at immediate objectives, not the impact it created. Oecd countries came together and discussed how to coordinate and work better together to improve measurement of aid. If you give free money to country governments, it"s easy for the government to just keep it and not use it effectively. Donor countries make guidelines but they aren"t usually the best ones to make those decisions. Ownership: developing countries set their own strategies for poverty reduction, improve their institutions and tackle corruptions. Alignment: donor countries align behind these objectives and use local systems. Harmonization: donor countries coordinate, simplify procedures and share info to avoid duplication. Results: developing countries and donors shift focus to development results and results get measured. Mutual accountability: donors and partners are accountable for development results.
