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Project quick links
Good Governance, Aid Modalities and Poverty Reduction
Multilateral Donor Agency Effectiveness: Country Level Perceptions
Engaging Aid Recipients in the Debate
Uganda Development Partner Division of Labour exercise
Projects (ongoing
and completed)
Aid Architecture Meetings
Global, 2008
Simon Burall, Alison Evans & Sue Graves
This project builds on work carried out by ODI for the Commonwealth over the past three years. Initial workshops in Yaoundé, Dhaka, and London with senior Ministry of Finance officials and civil society leaders explored their views on how to reform the international aid architecture. This work fed into the Commonwealth Finance Ministers' Meeting (FMM), in Colombo in 2006, where the Commonwealth Secretariat was asked to develop a work plan for the Commonwealth to develop activities and action on the issue of international aid architecture reform. This project contributes to two of the areas developed.
The first area was to explore the potential of the new United Nations Development Cooperation Forum to provide an alternative forum for the discussion of aid and development effectiveness by hosting a meeting of Commonwealth Heads of Mission at the UN in New York to build awareness of, and consensus about the potential of the UNDCF to play this role. ODI prepared a background paper and co-facilitated the workshop.
The second area related to the next aid effectiveness High Level Forum (HLF3) in Accra in September. The Commonwealth Secretariat brought together senior officials from the Ministry of Finance to build awareness of HLF3 and to explore the potential for developing a Commonwealth position on the issues to be discussed in Accra. ODI prepared a background paper and co-facilitated the workshop.
Resources
Summary for the Commonwealth Workshop on United Nations Development Cooperation Forum (UNDCF)
Summary for the Senior Officials Workshop on Preparation for Accra High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness
Strategic Partnership with Africa Budget Support
Surveys
Africa, 2007-2009
Geoff Handley, David
Booth & Andrew Lawson
The aim of this project is to conduct two surveys on the Alignment
of Budget Support with National PRS processes: the first in
2007 and the second in 2008. A report on each survey will
be produced for the Strategic Partnership with Africa (SPA)
Budget Support Working Group (BSWG). This project follows
on from previous surveys carried out by ODI for the SPA between
2003 and 2006.
Commitment to Development Index Launch
UK, 2007
Simon Burall, Alan
Hudson & Laura Jarque
The Commitment to Development Index (CDI) ranks donor nations
on the extent to which their policies help or hurt developing
countries. The 2007 CDI will be launched by CGD and ODI in
October. Building upon this launch, ODI will hold two roundtable
discussions to promote dialogue on the CDI and “Beyond
Aid” policies amongst relevant policy influencers (including
Whitehall departments, NGOs, think tanks, and academics).
Multilateral Donor Agency Effectiveness: Country
Level Perceptions
2007 (Phase 1: 4 months, Phase 2: To be confirmed)
Ghana, India, Bangladesh, Tanzania, Zambia, South
Africa
Simon Burall. Contact: Pooja
Mall
The aims of this project are to: build a better understanding
of the performance of multilateral organisations among decision-makers,
parliamentarians and other key stakeholders both in donor
and recipient countries; develop a better informed dialogue
between multilateral organisations and DfID staff at headquarters
and country level; develop a better informed dialogue between
multilateral organisations and key stakeholders in-country;
improve the performance of multilateral organisations at the
country level. Funded by DfID.
Resources
Project
web page
Engaging Aid Recipients
in the Debate
Joint Donor PRS Training 2007
Armenia, Benin, Ghana, Nicaragua
Kate Bird, David Booth,
Andrew Lawson & Stephanie Levy
ODI are working with ITAD to deliver a series of training
workshops for senior policy staff in development cooperation
on effective involvement in Poverty Reduction Strategies.
This work is funded through GTZ on behalf of Belgium, Canada,
Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway,
Sweden, Switzerland and the UK, who together make up the Steering
Committee. In 2007 courses will be held in Armenia, Benin,
Ghana and Nicaragua. Training workshops were also held in
2006 in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Kenya, Mali and Uganda.
Quality of Aid Index
USA, 2007
Karin Christiansen
Advisor for the Centre for Global Development's (CGD) initiative
to quantify and put together an index on the quality of aid
of bilateral donors.
Joint Learning Programme on Sector-Wide Approaches
Cambodia, 2007
Andrew Lawson
ODI will be working with Nils Boesen to deliver a Joint Learning
Programme (JLP) workshop in Cambodia on Planning and Poverty
Reduction. JLP learning events aim to develop capacity among
donor and partner country staff to effectively participate
in SWAp processes. The events are workshops focusing on ongoing
local processes and are tailored so as to respond to local
needs as defined by the partner country stakeholders and by
donor agencies. The JLP is currently co-financed by Denmark,
the European Union, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway,
Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK.
EU Aid Effectiveness
Global, 2007
Alina Rocha Menocal,
Geoff Handley & Sue Graves
This study on EU Aid Effectiveness has been commissioned by
the European Parliament’s Committee on Development.
The study will select a number of countries to look at as
case studies with a particular focus on aid effectiveness
at the EU level. A report of the study will be produced and
presented to the Committee on Development in Brussels.
Resources
Project
Report
2007 Annual Report on the Results and Impact of IFAD
Operations
Global, 2007
Alison Evans
Provision of a range of inputs into the fith Annual Report
on the Results and Impact of IFAD Operations preparation process
including leading on, reviewing and co-authoring various chapters
and papers and facilitating workshops.
Application of the Performance Based Allocation System
to Fragile States
Global, 2007
Karin Christiansen,
Ed Anderson & Rowan Putman
This project aims to: a) provide input for discussion
at the coordination meeting of IDA15 EU deputies in June 2007;
b) provide scientific background information for strengthening
the German position on the IDA15 special theme of ‘fragile
states’ and for the German evaluation of the Performance
Based System (PBA) in general, and; c) provide recommendations
on Germany’s position on PBA with respect to fragile
states. The project will involve an analysis of World Bank
data, current literature, including existing studies on PBA
and fragile states, and current debate within the World Bank,
NGOs and the academic community. A report of the study will
be produced for GTZ and the findings will be presented at
the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
in Berlin.
Resources
Project
Report
Facilitating the Development of DFID Ghana's CAP
Results Framework
Ghana, 2007
Alison Evans
The purpose of this advisory work is to facilitate dialogue
within DFID-Ghana to develop the programme Results Framework
covering the Country Assistance Plan (CAP) period, in accordance
with DFID’s CAP guidance. As well as a Results Framework
for DFID-Ghana’s CAP there will be a brief report with
recommendations on completing the Results Matrix. ODI will
undertake all of the work on this project.
Aid, Resource Rents and the Politics of the Budget
Process
Global, 2007
Paolo de Renzio,
Alison Evans, Verena Fritz & Geoff Handley
ODI are working with the Institute of Development Studies
(IDS) on this DFID funded project. The study aims to provide
a fleshed-out framework for interpreting the inter-relation
between aid-dependency (or resource-dependency), politics
and budget institutions, in order to provide a basis for improved
assessments on the opportunities for reform and for increased
aid effectiveness in different countries. It will complement
that with a thorough assessment of existing data sources which
can be used for cross-country analysis and comparative research,
with direct policy implications for understanding the politics
of budget reforms and budget support, especially in the African
context. A final report will be produced in July 2007.
Measuring the Efficiency of Programmatic Based Approaches
Global, 2007
Simon Burall
Programme Based Approaches (PBAs) have raised high expectations
about aid effectiveness and are often presented as the solution
to provide ‘better aid’ in an international environment
with a lot ‘more aid’. DFID cites quantitative
and qualitative work underlying a claim that PBAs are 20%
more efficient than other ways of delivering aid, but no research
directly confirms this efficiency gain. This project is being
undertaken for the National Audit Office. The team will ‘map’
and critique evidence around the effectiveness of PBAs, particularly
the quantitative evidence, to identify what can and cannot
be said on the available evidence. It is in this context that
the NAO wants to add to this debate and assist DFID in taking
its research further by commissioning this study of the evidence
on the effectiveness of aid delivered under PBAs.
Commonwealth Task Force - Aid Architecture
Commonwealth countries, 2007
Simon Burall
The Commonwealth has taken a keen interest in the reform of
international aid system. As a result, the Commonwealth Secretariat,
working in collaboration with other like-minded organisations,
has been at the forefront of the discussion on international
aid architecture. This project follows on from previous ODI
work for the Commonwealth Finance Ministers Meeting (CFMM)
in Colombo in September 2006. The CFMM, in its 2006 communiqué,
encouraged the Commonwealth to continue to play an active
role in the evolution of the international aid architecture
and asked the Secretariat to establish a working group of
senior officials to consider how best the Commonwealth can
influence the continuing debate on the reform of international
aid architecture. ODI has been commissioned to write the background
paper for the 2007 meeting of the working group and to subsequently
edit the paper in the light of discussions for presentation
to the next CFMM meeting and potentially the Commonwealth
Heads of Government Meeting later in 2007.
Governance and Poverty Analysis Programme
Vietnam, 2007
Alison Evans
This project, commissioned by DFID Vietnam, aims to design
the Governance and Poverty Analysis Programme (GAPAP), which
will seek to deepen governance analysis while tackling the
changing poverty context. The design of this programme will
be based on a concept note jointly produced by the World Bank
and DFID. A Project Document for the GAPAP will be produced.
Experiences with Sector Wide Approaches in Brazil
2006-2007 (3 months)
Lídia Cabral,
Richard Batley (IDD/University of Birmingham) and Celina Souza
(Universidade Federal da Bahia), with David Booth and Andrew
Lawson
This study looks at the Brazilian experience with Sector Wide
Approaches (SWAps), aiming to providing a synthesis of lessons
learned in key aspects of SWAps and offer recommendations
on how to take the experience forward. Although SWAps emerged
originally in low-income and aid dependent countries to address
problems of aid fragmentation and lack of coordination in
development interventions, they are currently also being used
in middle income countries with low aid dependency ratios.
Brazil has currently three ongoing SWAp operations. The study
looks at the Brazilian experience and analyses the underlying
SWAp model, its rationale, achievements and the challenges
faced. ODI is working with the International Development Department
of the University of Birmingham and with a Brazilian researcher
working at the Federal University of Bahia (worth adding links
to these institutions).
The study is funded by DFID – Brazil office.
Resources
Project Report
Presentation
Aid Dependency: Country Case Study of Mozambique
Mozambique, 2006-2007 (5 months)
Paolo de Renzio
Paper on the ways in which Mozambique has managed its relations
with the international community through the years. The paper
covers the history and nature of Mozambique's relations with
donors, analysing its capacity of negotiating a development
agenda independently of donors' views and positions, given
its high degree of dependency on foreign aid. Funded by Center
for Global Development.
Resources
Project
Report
Sector-Wide Approaches for Agriculture and Rural Development
Global, 2006 (6 months)
Alison Evans
Commissioned study to examine past, present and future roles
of Sector-Wide Approaches (SWAps) in agriculture and rural
development within the broader context of changes in development
assistance. Study objectives: to establish whether, and how,
agriculture and rural development SWAps are delivering against
their stated goals; to identify critical lessons about the
way in which development assistance currently supports the
rural sector; and to suggest what can be done differently
to enhance the contribution of agriculture and rural development
to long term growth and poverty reduction. Funded by the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development.
Resources
Project Report
Mauritania: Support to the development of a harmonisation and alignment action plan
Mauritania, 2006
Andrew Lawson
ODI were contracted by UNDP to provide advisory support to a team of local consultants preparing a Harmonisation and Alignment Action Plan for the Government of Mauritania and its Development Partners. This initiative aimed to develop a clear work-plan for putting into action the commitments made by Mauritania and its partners under the Paris Declaration. Funded by Affectation Professionnelle
Evaluating Donors Aid Quality
Global, 2006 (3 months)
Simon Burall
Preparation of a paper laying out options for new work evaluating donors on the quality of their aid. The audience for this paper is the membership of the CDI consortium (represenetatives of donor agencies). Funded by Center for Global Development.
Resources
Project report. Developing a methodology for assessing aid effectiveness - an options paper.
Writer and Facilitator for Ghana Joint Assistance Strategy
Ghana, 2006 (2 months)
Alison Evans
ODI contracted to provide drafting and facilitation services to support the Ghana Joint Assistance Strategy (JAS) process. The main tasks are drafting and editing the JAS product, contributing to decision-making on JAS scheduling and process management, and organising and facilitating core group meetings. In addition, the project comprises developing an on-going reporting system and devising an engagement strategy and materials for Government and civil society. Funded by DFID.
Collation of evidence of country led approaches
2006 (1 month)
UK
Karin Christiansen, Ruth Driscoll, Simon Burall
The objective of the project is to undertake a brief review of evidence on the progress among DFID and other donors on implementing country-led approaches. Funded by DFID.
Mutual Accountability Ghana
2006 (2 months)
Ghana
Alison Evans, Simon Burall
The aim of this project is to develop a framework for mutual accountability based on the experience of other countries and the JAS process to recommend to donors in Ghana. Funded by DFID.
Ghana Multi-donor Budget Support evaluation
2006-2007 (11 months)
Ghana
Andrew Lawson
An evaluation of the Ghana Multi-donor Budget Support arrangement.
The evaluation is based on the use of the OECD-DAC evaluation
methodology and covers the period 2002 to the present. The
objective is to assess to what extent the MDBS has proven
a relevant, efficient, effective and sustainable way of reducing
poverty in the Ghanaian context. In conjunction with the Centre
for the Development of Democracy in Accra. Funded by DFID.
Resources
Final
Report: Volume I: Main Report
Final Report: Volume II: Annexes
Briefing Paper: Budget Support to Ghana: A risk worth taking?
Strategic Partnership with Africa Budget Support Survey
2006-2007 (10 months)
UK, France
David Booth
The project will provide a report to the Strategic Partnership with Africa Budget Support Working Group by January 2007. Funded by DFID.
General Budget Support
Ongoing
Andrew Lawson
Investigation into the feasibility and scope of a joint evaluation,
with other donors and national partners, of general budget
support as an aid modality. Funded by DFID.
Resources
Does Budget Support Work? Evidence from Tanzania. Short
Report. Full
Report.
Evaluation
of GBS - evaluation framework
Phase
1 report
Phase
2 report
Workshop
report
Uganda Development Partner Division of Labour exercise
Uganda, 2006 (7months)
Karin Christiansen,
Dinah McLeod, Tim Williamson
This exercise aims to improve Development Partner selectivity
and ultimately achieve greater efficiency and effectiveness
in the delivery of aid in Uganda. Agreed by the Local Development
Partners Group (LDPG), the exercise is intended to provide
the Government and development partners with a more accurate
picture of development assistance to Uganda. This is designed
to facilitate an increase in transaction benefits and reduce
transactions costs associated with aid and to streamline financial
support and policy dialogue in relation to the Poverty Eradication
Action (PEAP) and Uganda's budget systems. Funded by DFID
on behalf of the LPDG.
Resources
Development
Partner Division of Labour - Project webpage
Trade and Growth in 2nd Generation Poverty Reduction
Strategies
Africa, 2006 (2 months)
Ruth Driscoll,
Dirk Willem te Velde, Massimiliano Calì, Zainab Kizilbash
Agha
Overview of existing knowledge on growth and trade in PRSs
and new anaylsis of growth and trade in second generation
PRSs in Africa. It examines growth and trade from the perspective
of both policy content and process. Funded by DFID.
Joint Donor PRS Training
2006 (2 months)
Andrew
Lawson, Ruth Driscoll, Kate Bird, Stephanie Levy, in partnership
with ITAD
To prepare, organise and run a course for senior policy staff
in development cooperation on effective involvement in proverty
reduction strategies (Joint Donor PRS Training). Funded by
GTZ and others.
Incentives for Harmonisation and Alignment Country Programme Study
2006 (9 months)
Andrew Lawson, Erin Coyle
A study to generate concrete proposals on ways the World Bank can encourage staff to implement the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectivenss in country-level operational work; policy dialogue, strategic planning, design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of operations (including capacity building) and analytical work. It identifies the positive and negative incentives for operational staff, particularly in the field offices, but also in Washington. It examines the experiences of a number of countries in furthering alignment and harmonisation and draws general lessons and conlcusions from these cases. It further proposes reasonable operational steps to improve the Bank's incentive environment in all relevant areas. Funded by the World Bank.
Resources
World Bank Incentives for Harmonisation and Alignment: Final Synthesis Report
Report to the World Bank, November 2006
Follow-up to the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness
2006 (4 months)
David Booth, Alison Evans, Andrew Rogerson, Andrew Lawson
In response to a call for an evaluation process, a study was commissioned to undertake a literature review and prepare a concept paper exploring and defining possible ways forward, methodologies and next steps for developing, managing and implementing an evaluation process. Funded by JADE.
Aid Instruments in Fragile States
2006 (2 months)
Clare Lockhart
To produce background papers that can form the basis of briefing notes for DfID staff on the purpose and effective design of, three aid instruments that are frequently used in fragile states: a) community driven development programmes, b) Multi donor trust funds for post conflict reconstruction, and c) joint programmes. Funded by DFID.
Governance Specialist - Europe and Central Asia Department
Western Balkans, 2006 (1 month)
Verena Fritz
Support to DFID’s ongoing programme in the Western Balkans; focused specifically on Kosovo (including implementation of Standards, observation of status negotiations, advice in the field of public administration reform); support to the development of a regional drivers of change process in the Western Balkans. Funded by DFID.
Good Governance, Aid Modalities and Poverty Reduction
2006 (30 months)
David Booth, Verena Fritz, Paolo de Renzio, Diana Cammack, Julius Court, Alina Rocha Menocal, in partnership with Chr. Michelsen Institute (Norway) and the Economic Social Research Foundation (Tanzania)
Major research project for the Advisory Board of Irish Aid on Good Governance and New Aid Modalities, to gather and review evidence on governance issues, support for governance, and the effects of new aid modalities in promoting capable and accountable governance, and in promoting aid effectiveness. Funded by Irish Aid.
Resources
Good Governance, Aid Modalities and Poverty Reduction - Project webpage
Southern Voices for Change in the International Aid System
2005 - 2006
Alina Rocha Menocal, Andrew Rogerson
This project aims to increase the understanding of the priority issues and views of Southern CSOs, especially think tanks, on the international aid system and aid architecture which can then be fed into global discourses on reform to the international aid system. Funded by DFID (Partnership Programme Agreement).
Resources
Engaging Aid Recipients in the Debate
Reforming the international aid system: user perspectives
2005- 2006
Andrew Rogerson, Simon Maxwell, Alina Rocha Menocal, Simon Burall, Sven Grimm
This project, led by the Commonwealth Secretariat and the Intergovernmental Agency of the Francophonie (AIF), and facilitated by ODI, is intended to learn from recipient government representatives as well as civil society actors about their experiences of working with different donors (both bilateral and multilateral) and to learn what reforms are necessary to make the international aid architecture work more effectively. In total, three workshops have been organised (one in the UK , another in Bangladesh , and a third in Cameroon . The outcomes of the workshops will lead to the preparation of a paper on the subject to be presented at the meeting of Senior Finance Officials of Commonwealth member countries and Francophonie member countries in Colombo in September 2006.
Resources
Engaging Aid Recipients in the Debate
The Role of CSOs in Pro-Poor Budget Reforms
2005
Paolo de Renzio
As part of ODI's Civil Society's Partnerships Programme CAPE carried out case studies on the role of southern CSOs in budget research and budget advocacy, to better understand how they utilise research-based evidence to influence budget policies and priorities in their own countries.
Resources
Preliminary results
Role of CSOs in pro-poor budget reform
Briefing Paper
The International Budget Project
Albania Donor Coordination Baseline
Albania, 2005 (2 months)
Verena Fritz
Study to create a donor coordination baseline for Albania. Funded by DFID.
Post Conflict State Building
2005 (3 months)
Clare Lockhart, Alina Rocha Menocal
Creation of a framework of activities to help national stakeholders and development practitioners approach post-conflict state-building. Funded by World Bank Group.
Mutual Accountability Workshops and Analysis
Worldwide, 2005 (5 months)
Paolo de Renzio, Andrew Rogerson, Tony Killick, Alina Rocha Menocal
To produce analysis of the international architecture for mutual accountability and consider how existing pan-African mechanisms, country level mechanisms and international mechanisms could best link up and be reformed for improved mutual accountability; and the range of proposals that exist for upgrading the mutual accountability architecture. Funded by DFID.
Resources
ODI Briefing Paper Promoting Mutual Accountability in Aid Relationships
Review of Development Frameworks and the United Nations Country Co-ordination Fund
Worldwide, 2005 (16 months)
Paolo de Renzio, Simon Maxwell, Tammie O'Neil, Zaza Curran, Katarina Herneryd, Tony Faint, Richard Longhurst
To identify the strengths and weaknesses of the CCA/UNDAF process. Funded by DFID.
National allocation of PRBS
2005 (3 months)
Tim Williamson, Karin Christiansen, Alina Rocha Menocal
Effectiveness of official development assistance (ODA) in the form of Poverty Reduction Budget Support (PRBS). Funded by DFID.
The Macro-Economic Impact of Scaling-Up Aid
2005 (2 months)
Paolo de Renzio,
A comparative study of four African countries (Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia) to assess the potential macroeconomic impacts of increasing aid flows. Funded by DFID.
Resources
ODI Briefing Paper: What would doubling aid do for macroeconomic management in Africa.
ODI Working Paper 264: What would Doubling Aid do for Macroeonomic Management in Africa?
Policy Coherence in Fragile States
UK, 2005
Karin Christiansen, Clare Lockhart
Background Paper prepared for the Senior Level Forum on Development Effectiveness in Fragile States. Funded by DFID.
Resources
Background Paper
Harmonisation & Alignment Workshop
Yemen, 2004
Karin Christiansen
On going support and workshop facilitation for the Government of Yemen looking at taking forward the harmonisation and alignment agenda for the Yemen context. Funded by DFID.
Pro-Poor Investment
UK, 2004-2005 (4 months)
Paolo de Renzio, Edward Anderson
Development of a research concept paper recommending methodologies to evaluate whether public investments on economic infrastructure are conducive to pro-poor growth. Funded by UNDP.
Resources
ODI Working Paper 263: The Role of Public Investment in Poverty Reduction: Theories, Evidence and Methods.
Synthesis of donor self-reporting on progress towards harmonisation and alignment
UK, 2004 (1 month)
Karin Christiansen, Paolo de Renzio, Andrew Rogerson
Consolidation of the major findings and conclusions emerging from the donors’ self-assessments into a single report highlighting areas of improvement, examples of good practice and remaining constraints. Funded by OECD.
Achieving the Health Millennium Development Goals in Fragile States
UK, 2004
Karin Christiansen
Background document prepared for the High-Level Forum on the Health MDGs, produced by the Health Systems Resource Centre on behalf of the Department for International Development. Funded by DFID.
Drivers of Change Malawi (initial phase)
Malawi, 2004
David Booth, Zaza Curran, Tammie O'Neil
To conduct a DoC analysis in contribution to an exercise in Malawi, undertaken jointly by the British High Commission, Norwegian Embassy and DFID. A DoC analysis is distinguished by setting out in an open, evidence-based way the main blockers of progressive change in a country, and the likelihood of these being overcome by countervailing forces, including those external to the national system. It is important to recognise that it is not an exercise in picking winners or a way of discovering decisive once-and-for-all solutions to problems. Funded by DFID.
Absorptive Capacity in Aid Delivery
UK, 2004
Paolo de Renzio
Seminar and background paper on the issue of absorptive capacity in aid delivery. Funded by DFID.
Resources
ODI Briefing Paper: Scaling up versus Absorptive Capacity: Challenges and Opportunities for Reaching the MDGs in Africa.
Harmonisation and Alignment in difficult partnerships
Various, 2004 (2 months)
Karin Christiansen, Erin Coyle, Clare Lockhart
Report commissioned by the Learning and Advisory Process of the OECD DAC as part of a series of inputs to the Senior Level Forum on Development Effectiveness in Fragile States scheduled for January 2005. The paper explores the relevance of harmonisation and alignment approaches in the context of difficult partnerships, identifies different attributes of difficult partnerships from both the partner and the donor perspectives, analyses cases of donor engagement in each context, identifies constraints to alignment and harmonisation, mechanisms for monitoring progress, and proposes a series of lessons and recommendations. Funded by DFID.
Annual PRSP Progress Reviews
2004 (8 months)
Ruth Driscoll , Paolo de Renzio, Samantha Smith
Analysis of the challenges posed by the monitoring and evaluation of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and budget support programmes. Funded by JICA.
Resources
Progress reviews and performance assessment in poverty-reduction strategies and budget support: A survey of current thinking and practice.
Incentives for Harmonisation in Aid Agencies
2004 (2 months)
Paolo de Renzio, David Booth, Andrew Rogerson, Zaza Curran
Study on Harmonisation and Alignment aimed at highlighting the role of incentive systems in donor agencies in the promotion of aid harmonisation and alignment.
Resources
ODI Working Paper 268: Learning from experience: A review of recipient government efforts to manage donor relations and improve the quality of aid.
Aid to 'Poorly Performing Countries'
India, Malawi, Rwanda, Sudan, 2004
Joanna Macrae, Andrew Shepherd, Oliver Morrissey, Adele Harmer, Ed Anderson, Laure-Hélène Piron, Andy McKay, Diana Cammack and Nambusi Kyegombe
Critical review of current debates regarding aid in 'poorly performing' countries. The study sought to clarify and make operational the concept of 'poor performance' by analysing the criteria against which performance is assessed, identifying the key constraints to aid engagement and developing an approach at the country level for better understanding poor performance. Funded by DFID.
Resources
Main Report
Background Paper 1: A Statistical Approach to Identifying Poor Performers
Background Paper 2: India Case Study
Background Paper 3: Malawi Case Study
Background Paper 5: Sudan Case Study
Devolution in Punjab I
Punjab, 2004 (4 months)
Tim Williamson
An analysis of the main barriers to growth, poverty reduction, and social development in Punjab . Funded by the Asian Development Bank.
Devolution in Punjab II
Punjab, 2004
Tim Williamson
Examining the impact of devolution on social sectors governance, management and service delivery and vice versa, and how different district governments are managing the delivery of services in different ways. Identification of different social sector service delivery options, that can reinforce the devolution process and ultimately social sector service delivery. Funded by World Bank.
Design and Implementation Features of Medium-Term Expenditure Frameworks and their Links to Poverty Reduction
Ghana, Rwanda, Tanzania, South Africa, Malawi, Uganda, 2003
Alison Evans
Practical guidance to help government officials and development practitioners working on public expenditure issues to improve the efficacy of MTEFs in reducing poverty. Funded by DFID.
Resources
ODI Working Paper 168: How, When and Why does Poverty get Budget Priority? Poverty Reduction Strategy and Public Expenditure in Five African Countries: Synthesis Paper.
PRSP Consultancy Review
2003
Ruth Driscoll, Karin Christiansen
Guidance on how to engage with PRSP processes and policy engagement. Funded by Care International.
Development of the General Budget Support Evaluability Framework
2003, (4 months)
David Booth
Design of and evaluability study"to set up a framework for evaluating intermediate development outcomes. Funded by DFID.
Training in Poverty Reduction Strategy Processes
2003, (1 month)
Karin Christiansen, David Booth
Training to provide participants with basic understanding of the PRS processes and the implications of moving from projects to programmes and budget support. Funded by Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Finland.
Workshop on General Budget Support
2003
David Booth, Karin Christiansen
The workshop reviewed the findings and lessons from a number of recent studies concerned with different aspects of the evaluation of GBS. Ideas and proposals were exchanged about how best to move forward towards an agenda of joint evaluation and research on GBS. Funded by DFID.
From PRSPs to Budgets: The Challenges for Civil Society
2003
Karin Christiansen
Contribution to a publication on the history, practice and challenges of PRSPs from the Institute for a Democratic Alternative in South Africa (IDASA).
Evaluation of SIDA Country Strategies
2003
Tim Conway
Evaluation of the implementation of Swedish development co-operation strategies and programming in Viet Nam and Laos.
Aid Policies of the Major Donors
2003
Tim Conway
Paper covering the current aid policies of the major donors agencies in N. American and Europe; key factors in the social and political context in the donor country which influenced these changes; the links between changes in policy and changes in bilateral organisational structure and management; and macro level changes in aid policy and changes in approaches to micro level project implementation.
Poverty Reduction Strategy Monitoring
Africa, 2003
Karin Christiansen, David Booth
Regional workshop to provide a forum for sharing experiences to date in supporting the setting up monitoring and evaluation arrangements for national PRSPs. Funded by DFID.
Resources
PRS monitoring: issues from consultants' experience
Strategic Planning & Poverty Monitoring Dept of MINECOFIN
2002-2004
David Booth, Karin Christiansen, Neil thin, Andrew McKay, Alison Evans
The overall objective of this work was to support the Strategic Planning and Poverty Monitoring Directorate to consult on, consolidate and plan out, its role in effective implementation of the Rwandan PRS and to successfully implement activities already established or planned by the National Poverty Reduction Programme. Funded by DFID.
Strategic Study on Engaging with PRSP's in Conflict Affected Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa
2002
Erin Coyle, Laure-Helen Piron
A project to facilitate progress toward achieving the MDGs in poor policy environments. The purpose was to provide country teams and relevant departments with a more consistent basis for assessing PRSPs (and associated instruments) in conflict-affected countries - including the case for initially embarking upon a PRSP - and how DFID should be engaging with national PRS processes in such countries. Funded by DFID.
(Literature Review on) General Budget Support
2002
David Booth
Assistance to DFID in both the evaluation of GBS and preparing the GBS evaluability framework. Funded by DFID.
Support to the Pakistan Government in Developing a Monitoring Framework for Poverty
Pakistan, 2002
Andy McKay, Felix Naschold, Tim Conway, in partnership with OPM
To help the Government of Pakistan to develop an approach to monitoring the outcomes of the Poverty Reduction Programme and the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper, by developing and implementing a monitoring framework for the PRS/PRP. Funded by DFID.
Operationalising the national poverty reduction strategy
Vietnam, 2002,
Tony Killick
This assistance involved contributing to furthering the integration of the GoV 10 year Socio-Economic Development Strategy, the CPRGS and the GoV planning cycle. More specifically, the assistance contributed to: the development of a realistic and costed CPRGS paper providing the policy framework for mainstreaming poverty into sector policies and the budget, strengthen the CPRGS process and the link between poverty monitoring and policy formulation, resource allocation and implementation in the work of GoV, strengthen the active involvement of the provinces and sector agencies in the CPRGS process and the integration of central and provincial level policies. Funded by DANIDA.
Desk Study on Good Practice in the Development of PRSP Indicators and Monitoring Systems
2001-2004
David Booth
Conceptual work on the integration of the PPA and the survey in Uganda and on creative thinking for PRSP monitoring for the SPA. The study was undertaken in two phases. Phase 1 was a critical review of PRSP documentation for sub-Saharan Africa, including four full PRSPs, 17 Interim PRSPs (iPRSPs) and 19 Joint Staff Assessments (JSAs). Phase 2 involved a wide-ranging search for experiences and examples that might be drawn on in improving the way PRSPs handle monitoring and indicators. Funded by DFID.
PRSP Monitoring and Synthesis Project
2001-2004
Erin Coyle, Alison Evans, Ruth Driscoll, Karin Christiansen
3-year project to support its engagement in the PRSP process and wider PRSP dialogue. Team produced demand-driven analysis of progress with the PRSP initiative, often with focus on aid effectiveness issues. Particularly relevant publications include, Donor Engagement with PRS Processes (for the SPA), DFID’s Engagement with PRSPs and Reporting and Monitoring in a post-full PRSP environment. Funded by DFID.
Resources
PRSP Project Website
DAC Guidelines on Poverty Reduction
2001
In April 2001, the OECD DAC completed a three-year reassessment of poverty-focused aid by launching its Guidelines on Poverty Reduction. ODI contributed to this process by coordinating studies and drafting background papers.
Strategic Partnership for Africa PRSP Institutionalisation Study*
Benin, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, 2001
David Booth
Investigation of the extent to which poverty reduction policies, programmes, practices and monitoring systems are being institutionalised in selected African countries. Exploration of whether the enhanced HIPC framework and the corresponding changes in IFI conditionality are helping to promote poverty-reduction plans that benefit from enhanced national ownership and stand a reasonable chance of being effective.
Resources
PRSP Institutionalisation Study: Final Report, 2001
Chapter 2: Institutionalising the PRSP Approach in Benin
Chapter 3: Institutionalising the PRSP Approach in Ghana
Chapter 4: Institutionalising the PRSP Approach in Kenya
Chapter 5: Institutionalising the PRSP Approach in Malawi
Chapter 6: Institutionalising the PRSP Approach in Mali
Chapter 7: Institutionalising the PRSP Approach in Mozambique
Chapter 8: Institutionalising the PRSP Approach in Rwanda
Chapter 9: Institutionalising the PRSP Approach in Tanzania
Good Practice in the Development of PRSP Indicators and Monitoring Systems - Desk Study
2001
David Booth
Practical suggestions on PRSP monitoring.
Resources
Final Report
Political Conditionality in Africa
Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia, 1999 - 2004.
Paolo de Renzio , Laure-Helene Piron, Sven Grimm, Tony Killick, Zaza Curran, Clare Lockhart
Generation of empirical evidence on the design, application and impact of 'political governance conditionalities' in Africa during the period 1999-2004. Funded by DFID.
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Other areas of work
Reforming public finance management
Strengthening resource allocation and use at sector and local levels
Improving national policy and planning processes
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