Ahmed Ali

Research Officer, Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure

Ahmed Ali is a research officer in the Centre of Aid and Public Expenditure (CAPE). His research interests include development finance, aid modalities, public financial management and emerging donors. Prior to joining CAPE he was an ODI fellow in Zanzibar, working in the ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Environment. Before this Ahmed worked in the Politics and State team in DFID.

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The 2013 CAPE conference: budgeting in the real world

Event - Conference - 13 - 14 November 2013

The national budget is one of the most important formal expressions of how a government aims to govern a country. But, in practice, the difference between what’s on paper and how public finance is actually managed can be stark. The 2013 CAPE conference will explore how budgets operate in the real world, and how they can be made to deliver better development outcomes.

Turkish aid in Somalia: the irresistible appeal of boots on the ground

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 30 September 2013

There is an old Somali proverb "I tus oo i taabsii", which is loosely translated as "show me, let me feel it". This is the metric by which Somalis will judge commitments made at a recent conference in Brussels, where international donors pledged €1.8bn for Somalia.

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Localising aid – a challenge to the orthodoxy?

Event - Public event - 9 July 2013 16:30 - 18:00 (GMT+01 (BST))

What if much of the orthodox aid effectiveness agenda that has dominated aid discussions for a decade is misguided? And what if the calculations aid givers make when assessing risk are wrong? This event will present the findings of ODI’s Localising aid research and provide a forum to debate the latest thinking on how to make aid more effective.

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European Report on Development 2013 - Post-2015: global action for an inclusive and sustainable future

Publication - Research reports and studies - 9 April 2013

James Mackie (European Centre for Development Policy Management), Pedro Martins (Overseas Development Institute) and Stephan Klingebiel (Deutsche Institut für Entwicklungspolitik)

The European Report on Development 2013 aims to provide an independent contribution to the post-2015 debate by focusing on how best global collective action can support the efforts of developing countries to achieve development.

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Paying for progress: how will emerging post-2015 goals be financed in the new aid landscape?

Publication - Discussion papers - 31 March 2013

ODI Working Papers 366

Romilly Greenhill and Ahmed Ali

This paper explores options for financing some of the potential post-2015 goals within the changing development cooperation landscape. It focusses on five sectors: education, health, water and sanitation, sustainable energy and food and agriculture. It asks whether – and how much – additional finance is needed to meet the likely goals; and looks at what this implies for the design of the post-2015 framework.

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