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Implementation
Deliverables
Project team
Links to related projects
Background
ODA is increasing. Donors, aid recipient governments and civil
society organisations are asking about the effectiveness of
aid and the bilateral and multilateral organisations (MOs)
that disburse it.
This DFID funded pilot project aims to build an understanding
of key stakeholders’ perceptions of effectiveness of
multilateral organisations. By engaging key stakeholders at
the recipient country level, we hope to generate more debate
about the relative effectiveness of donors and create the
impetus to move to more effective mutual accountability mechanisms.
The assessment was be carried out in six countries: South
Africa, Ghana, Tanzania, Zambia, Bangladesh and India. It
asked for opinions about the Asian or African Development
Bank; the European Commission; the Global Fund to fight AIDS,
TB and Malaria (GFATM); the United Nations Development Fund
(UNDP); United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF); and
the World Bank. It relied on the perceptions of a small number
of expert opinions from a cross-section of people representing
a range of perspectives on MO effectiveness.
Aims
• Build a better understanding of the performance of
MOs amongst decision-makers, parliamentarians and other key
stakeholders both in donor and recipient countries;
• Develop a better informed dialogue between MOs and
DFID staff at headquarters and country level;
• Develop a better informed dialogue between MOs and
key stakeholders in-country;
• Improve the performance of MOs at the country level.
Implementation
This project will be managed and implemented by ODI in collaboration
with country coordinators in the six countries in which the
survey will be undertaken.
Phase 1: Feburary - September 2007
During the first phase we collected data from the 6 countries
and produced a report on the on the aggregate performance
of MOs across the sample countries. The report was produced
for DFID.
Read
the project briefing
Phase 2: September 2007 - May 2008
The second phase will see country coordinators, supported
by ODI, analyse the data in-country and engage with key stakeholders
to develop a dialogue about their government’s engagement
with MOs.
Deliverables
ODI will produce:
• A report analysing the main quantitative findings from the country samples. Pull out boxes will be used to highlight key quotes and to use the emerging qualitative data to contextualise the rankings produced.
• A report (plus annexes) analysing the main findings from the country samples.
• An in-depth description of the methodology including a reflection on how it could be improved for any future work.
• An ODI project briefing
• A series of country level publications. These will
be used by the country coordinators to build and deepen the
country level debate about how the government engages with
donors.
• The study will generate new information of interest to stakeholders in the study countries and beyond (taking into account sensitivities with the data) and beyond the length of the project. ODI will capitalise on this by developing and implementing a communications plan to target stakeholders with the relevant reports, to engage in-country stakeholders in a debate about the evidence generated. This plan will include an element for dealing with the media.
Project Team
Name |
Position |
E-Mail |
Phone No. |
Skype ID |
Contact for: |
Simon Burall |
Project Leader |
s.burall@odi.org.uk |
+44 (0)20 7922 0418
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Sburall |
Overall project management
issues |
Ajoy Datta |
Project Manager
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a.datta@odi.org.uk
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Day-to-day project management
issues |
Ken Mease
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Survey Manager |
kenm@ufl.edu
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Specific survey management
questions
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Laura Jarque
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Communications Officer |
l.jarque@odi.org.uk |
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Enquiries about the project.
CCs comms help |
Naved Chowdhury |
Project Officer |
n.chowdhury@odi.org.uk |
+44 (0)20 7922 0361 |
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Contact with broader ODI
civil society network |
| Duncan Sinclair |
Project Administrator |
d.sinclair@odi.org.uk |
+44 (0)20 7922 0379 |
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Contract and invoice related issues |
Links to related projects
ODI is also facilitating a network of southern research institutes
and think-tanks called the Forum
on the Future of Aid (FFA). FFA is designed to encourage
online dialogue and discussion on research and opinions about
how the international aid system currently works and whether
and how it could be reformed. The site presents research and
opinions from the South and North about the reform of the
global aid architecture. While primarily aimed at encouraging
dialogue and opinion from researchers, academics, practitioners
and activists from the global South, it is hoped that all
the main actors on the international development scene will
feel able and willing to participate.
One FFA partner, in Bangladesh, is collaborating on this
project. ODI aims to explore ways that the information generated
about stakeholder perceptions of MO effectiveness can be used
more broadly within the FFA.
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