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The Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure at the Overseas Development Institute promotes discussion and research on core questions of aid policy, aid management and public finance systems in developing countries. Click here to see the team.
Email: cape@odi.org.uk
CAPE information leaflet: Click here to download pdf
In this update:
Hot topic: How are multilateral donor organisations perceived in recipient countries?
Hot topic: Monitoring the Paris Declaration.
Major new projects:
Multilateral Donor Agency Effectiveness: Country Level Perceptions
Increased capacity for the Forum on the Future of Aid
PEFA Tajikistan
Major projects recently completed:
Uganda Development Partner Division of Labour Exercise
The impact of Civil Society Budget Analysis and Advocacy
CAPE workshops and meetings
Blogs
Key publications
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Hot topic
How are multilateral donor organisations perceived in recipient countries?
ODA is increasing. Questions are being asked about the effectiveness of aid and the bilateral and multilateral organisations (MOs) that disburse it. ODI is leading an exciting DfID funded pilot project that 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 aims of this project are to 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. Click here for more information.
Hot topic
Monitoring the Paris Declaration
Members of CAPE have been supporting the OECD’s Paris Declaration baseline survey and development of a Medium Term Monitoring Plan. Results from this work were discussed at the meeting by the Joint Venture on Monitoring the Paris Declaration at the OECD on February 22 and 23.
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Major new projects
Multilateral Donor Agency Effectiveness: Country Level Perceptions
Bangladesh , Ghana, India, Tanzania, South Africa, Zambia, 2007
See hot topic.
Increased capacity for the Forum on the Future of Aid
The Forum on the Future of Aid has recruited a part time intern who is keeping the website up-to-date and providing members with a fortnightly email update. The FFA website contains highlights of the latest research and opinions about how the international aid system currently works and whether and how it could be reformed. FFA primarily provides exposure to work from the Global South. For example, the FFA website includes research written by the Community Development Resource Network in Uganda, the Centre for Policy Dialogue in Bangladesh and the Centre for Development Studies and Promotion in Peru. To see the latest resources visit: www.futureofaid.net. To contact FFA, or subscribe to the update, email: ajoy@futureofaid.net.
PEFA Tajikistan
Tajikistan , 2006-2007
The purpose of this assessment is to provide the Government of Tajikistan with an objective assessment of Tajikistan’s Public Finance Management systems in order that it may form a better understanding of the overall fiduciary environment of the budget and assist in identifying those parts of the PFM systems most in need of reform.
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Major projects recently completed
Uganda Development Partner Division of Labour Exercise
Uganda, 2006
This project aimed 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 was intended to help promote key partnership principles; in particular: that development partners should work in fewer sectors, in line with areas of comparative advantage; and that transaction costs could be reduced by employing a lead development partners approach. Click here for more information.
The impact of Civil Society Budget Analysis and Advocacy
Brazil , Croatia, India, Mexico, South Africa and Uganda, 2005-6.
Over the past year, ODI has collaborated in a project led by the International Budget Project (IBP) and IDS/Sussex to look into the impact of civil society budget work on good governance and poverty reduction. While budget work has expanded dramatically in Africa, Asia and Latin America over the past ten years, no material has been systematically gathered on the social impact of the work. The research draws on case studies of independent budget organizations in Brazil, Croatia, India, Mexico, South Africa and Uganda who have been engaged in budget analysis and budget advocacy for a period of 5-10 years. The emerging findings from the case study research lead to a number of conclusions on the impact of applied budget work. The impacts fall into two principal categories: changes in budget policy and changes in the budget process. The research finds that the most significant impacts achieved by independent budget groups lie in improving budget transparency, awareness and civil society engagement on the one hand, and enhancing budgetary resources for existing programs and improvements in their utilization on the other. All case studies, a practitioners' guide and a synthesis paper are available at http://www.internationalbudget.org/casestudies.htm. An ODI Briefing Paper, co-written with IBP, will soon be available at here.
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CAPE workshops and meetings
CAPE workshop 2006 held on 6-7 November
Budget support and beyond: can the Paris agenda on aid be delivered?
60 people attended the CAPE conference in November. Questions addressed included: can donors do more to support progressive political and economic change in poor countries? Is a new approach needed to selecting the most appropriate mix of aid instruments in a given context? What are country-level public financial management reforms delivering in terms of a better context for utilising aid? Can attention to donor agency incentives and non-budget support instruments help deliver improvements in aid effectiveness at country level? Details of the programme, presentations and a workshop report (forthcoming) are available on the conference webpage via the link above.
ODI public meeting, December 2006
The Macroeconomics of Scaling Up Aid
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Blogs
Much ado about…conditionality? Corruption? Posted 14 September by Verena Fritz
China and Africa: the debate continues… Posted 13 February by Paolo de Renzio
Key Publications
ODI Working Papers
WP278: Reforming the international aid architecture: Options and ways forward. Simon Burall and Simon Maxwell with Alina Rocha Menocal, October 2006.
WP 274: (Re)building developmental states: From theory to practice . Verena Fritz and Alina Rocha Menocal, September 2006.
ODI Briefing Papers
Budget Monitoring and Policy Influence: Lesson from civil society budget analysis and advocacy initiatives. Available here soon.
CAPE / Rights in Action report
Aid Effectiveness and human rights: Strengthening the implementation of the Paris Declaration. A framework paper and 5 think-pieces by Marta Foresti, David Booth, Tammie O’Neil, Paolo de Renzio, Verena Fritz and Zainab Kizilbash Agha, October 2006
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