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Accounts clerk looking at accounts
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Long-term research perspectives on budget support

22 March - 19 October 2011
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Over the last decade budget support has been championed by the international community. Supported by donors and recipient countries alike, it has grown in prominence forming significant shares of aid spend by many donors. Research has illustrated the effectiveness of budget support, but evidence gaps remain largely due to methodological difficulties in measuring its effects. Yet in the context of the growing political consensus around the results-based agenda, there is an expectation that unless Budget Support can be shown to work harder the donor preference for it may diminish. 

The purpose of this series of invite-only events is to allow prominent researchers and policy advisors more time to think through and discuss what are considered to be some of the key questions and themes surrounding budget support today, developing partnerships with the participating individuals and organisations and forming a consortium of budget support experts.

Each meeting is intended to be participatory and will focus around two to three carefully selected presentations, presenting the latest evidence in these areas. To encourage an insightful and evidenced-based debate, ODI has invited primarily UK and EU based experts who have spent a considerable amount of time establishing, researching and implementing Budget Support over the last decade, and ODI will attempt to reach out to both the proponents and opponents of budget support. The series will culminate in a public meeting to present to a wider audience the summary of the conclusions from the meetings.

Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure
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Events in this series

Results and innovative approaches

Event - Round-table - 21 September 2011 14:00 - 17:00 (GMT+00)

Ahead of Busan, this session examined some of the more recent innovations in policy design and implementation of budget support style operations. Specifically, the European Commission’s variable tranches and MDG-contracts, the World Bank’s proposed Program for Results (P4R), and the Center for Global Development’s Cash on Delivery proposal.

Budget support and fragile states

Event - Workshop - 9 May 2011 14:00 - 17:00 (GMT+01 (BST))

Fragile states are increasingly becoming a priority for many bilateral and multilateral donors. This session explored recent evidence on the effectiveness of budget support and fragile states and relate it to the recent Common Approach Paper produced by the World Bank and AfDB.

The political economy of budget support

Event - Workshop - 8 April 2011 10:00 - 13:00 (GMT+01 (BST))

This session explore the incentives both recipient countries and donors face in implementing budget support. It included and went beyond examining the incentives surrounding conditionalities, exploring how the budget support agenda is generated and managed.

Recent lessons from evaluations on budget support

Event - Workshop - 22 March 2011 10:00 - 13:00 (GMT+01 (BST))

The purpose of this session was to showcase and discuss some of the recent research work that has been carried out on budget support. The meeting  touched on the current OECD/DAC sponsored budget support evaluations that are taking place in Mali, Tunisia, and Zambia. It will cover issues related to new evaluation methodologies, policy implications – responding to emerging or familiar unresolved questions such as the role of conditionality and the right objectives of budget support - and outstanding evidence gaps.