Building or Bypassing Recipient Country Systems : Are Donors Defying the Paris Declaration?

The 2005 Paris Declaration committed donors to increased use of recipient country systems for managing aid, particularly in countries with higher-quality systems. Using indicators explicitly endorsed by the Paris Declaration and covering the 2005-2010 period, this study finds a positive, significant...

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Main Author:	Knack, Stephen
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	Taylor and Francis 2014
Subjects:	Paris Declaration aid diplomacy aid donors Country Policy and Institutional Assessments CPIA indicators monitoring surveys aid monitoring Accra Agenda for Action
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18092

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spelling	okr-10986-180922021-04-23T14:03:41Z Building or Bypassing Recipient Country Systems : Are Donors Defying the Paris Declaration? Knack, Stephen Paris Declaration aid diplomacy aid donors Country Policy and Institutional Assessments CPIA indicators monitoring surveys aid monitoring Accra Agenda for Action The 2005 Paris Declaration committed donors to increased use of recipient country systems for managing aid, particularly in countries with higher-quality systems. Using indicators explicitly endorsed by the Paris Declaration and covering the 2005-2010 period, this study finds a positive, significant, and robust relationship between quality of systems and their use by donors. Thus, donors appear to have modified at least some of their aid practices in ways that build rather than undermine administrative capacity and accountability mechanisms in recipient countries. However, quality of systems explains a relatively small share of the variation in their use, and there is considerable heterogeneity among donors in their use of country systems, and in their sensitivity to quality of systems. 2014-04-28T17:24:02Z 2014-04-28T17:24:02Z 2014-03-21 Journal Article Journal of Development Studies 0022-0388 10.1080/00220388.2014.895816 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18092 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Taylor and Francis Publications & Research :: Journal Article
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description	The 2005 Paris Declaration committed donors to increased use of recipient country systems for managing aid, particularly in countries with higher-quality systems. Using indicators explicitly endorsed by the Paris Declaration and covering the 2005-2010 period, this study finds a positive, significant, and robust relationship between quality of systems and their use by donors. Thus, donors appear to have modified at least some of their aid practices in ways that build rather than undermine administrative capacity and accountability mechanisms in recipient countries. However, quality of systems explains a relatively small share of the variation in their use, and there is considerable heterogeneity among donors in their use of country systems, and in their sensitivity to quality of systems.
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title	Building or Bypassing Recipient Country Systems : Are Donors Defying the Paris Declaration?
title_short	Building or Bypassing Recipient Country Systems : Are Donors Defying the Paris Declaration?
title_full	Building or Bypassing Recipient Country Systems : Are Donors Defying the Paris Declaration?
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Building or Bypassing Recipient Country Systems : Are Donors Defying the Paris Declaration?

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