Identifying Aid Effectiveness Challenges in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States

Fragile and conflict-affected states face daunting challenges for development. Aid has a greater importance on development in these states than in others, and therefore aid effectiveness management and delivery of aid bears serious consideration...

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Main Author:	Ishihara, Yoichiro
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	ACCOUNTABILITY AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK AID AID FLOWS COUNTRY DATA COUNTRY PERFORMANCE DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE DEVELOPMENT BANKS DEVELOPMENT GOALS DEVELOPMENT ISSUES DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS DEVELOPMENT POLICY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT HARMONIZATION ISLAMIC DEVELOPMENT BANK JOINT MISSIONS MDB MULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT BANKS NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE OPEN ACCESS PERFORMANCES PRIORITIES PROCUREMENT RESULT RESULTS RISK MANAGEMENT STANDARDIZATION TARGETS TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TECHNICAL COOPERATION USES WEB WORTH
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/04/16223318/identifying-aid-effectiveness-challenges-fragile-conflict-affected-states http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6039

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spelling	okr-10986-60392021-04-23T14:02:24Z Identifying Aid Effectiveness Challenges in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States Ishihara, Yoichiro ACCOUNTABILITY AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK AID AID FLOWS COUNTRY DATA COUNTRY PERFORMANCE DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE DEVELOPMENT BANKS DEVELOPMENT GOALS DEVELOPMENT ISSUES DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS DEVELOPMENT POLICY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT HARMONIZATION ISLAMIC DEVELOPMENT BANK JOINT MISSIONS MDB MULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT BANKS NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE OPEN ACCESS PERFORMANCES PRIORITIES PROCUREMENT RESULT RESULTS RISK MANAGEMENT STANDARDIZATION TARGETS TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TECHNICAL COOPERATION USES WEB WORTH Fragile and conflict-affected states face daunting challenges for development. Aid has a greater importance on development in these states than in others, and therefore aid effectiveness management and delivery of aid bears serious consideration. Despite its significance, aid effectiveness is appreciably lower in fragile and conflict-affected states than in others. What are the key aid effectiveness challenges in these states and how can these issues be better addressed? As important initial steps, this paper aims to identify (i) aid effectiveness challenges facing fragile and conflict-affected states and (ii) good aid effectiveness examples using the results of the Survey on Monitoring the Paris Declaration on aid effectiveness, which was designed as a mechanism to support global and country level accountability. Both fragile and conflict-affected states (recipients) and development partners (providers) are mutually accountable for aid effectiveness; therefore, this paper focuses on both sides. While the analysis confirms the significantly lower aid effectiveness performance in fragile and conflict-affected states -- especially on aid on budget, aid predictability, and use of country systems -- good performance examples in several of these states are identified. The aid effectiveness performance of development partners in fragile and conflict-affected states differs significantly across different groups. Multilateral development banks and other multilateral organizations perform better on average than bilateral organizations and vertical funds. Disaggregation of development partner performance at the institutional level and the partner country level enables the analysis successfully to identify good performance examples. In using the results of this paper to improve aid effectiveness, key additional steps should include (i) considering whether the identified challenges are essential; (ii) analyzing the factors/reasons behind good performance examples; and (iii) discussing whether good performance examples can provide lessons that can be adapted and applied. 2012-04-27T07:44:17Z 2012-04-27T07:44:17Z 2012-04 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/04/16223318/identifying-aid-effectiveness-challenges-fragile-conflict-affected-states http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6039 English Policy Research Working Paper ; No. 6037 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research
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topic	ACCOUNTABILITY AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK AID AID FLOWS COUNTRY DATA COUNTRY PERFORMANCE DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE DEVELOPMENT BANKS DEVELOPMENT GOALS DEVELOPMENT ISSUES DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS DEVELOPMENT POLICY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT HARMONIZATION ISLAMIC DEVELOPMENT BANK JOINT MISSIONS MDB MULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT BANKS NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE OPEN ACCESS PERFORMANCES PRIORITIES PROCUREMENT RESULT RESULTS RISK MANAGEMENT STANDARDIZATION TARGETS TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TECHNICAL COOPERATION USES WEB WORTH
spellingShingle	ACCOUNTABILITY AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK AID AID FLOWS COUNTRY DATA COUNTRY PERFORMANCE DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE DEVELOPMENT BANKS DEVELOPMENT GOALS DEVELOPMENT ISSUES DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS DEVELOPMENT POLICY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT HARMONIZATION ISLAMIC DEVELOPMENT BANK JOINT MISSIONS MDB MULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT BANKS NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE OPEN ACCESS PERFORMANCES PRIORITIES PROCUREMENT RESULT RESULTS RISK MANAGEMENT STANDARDIZATION TARGETS TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TECHNICAL COOPERATION USES WEB WORTH Ishihara, Yoichiro Identifying Aid Effectiveness Challenges in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States
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description	Fragile and conflict-affected states face daunting challenges for development. Aid has a greater importance on development in these states than in others, and therefore aid effectiveness management and delivery of aid bears serious consideration. Despite its significance, aid effectiveness is appreciably lower in fragile and conflict-affected states than in others. What are the key aid effectiveness challenges in these states and how can these issues be better addressed? As important initial steps, this paper aims to identify (i) aid effectiveness challenges facing fragile and conflict-affected states and (ii) good aid effectiveness examples using the results of the Survey on Monitoring the Paris Declaration on aid effectiveness, which was designed as a mechanism to support global and country level accountability. Both fragile and conflict-affected states (recipients) and development partners (providers) are mutually accountable for aid effectiveness; therefore, this paper focuses on both sides. While the analysis confirms the significantly lower aid effectiveness performance in fragile and conflict-affected states -- especially on aid on budget, aid predictability, and use of country systems -- good performance examples in several of these states are identified. The aid effectiveness performance of development partners in fragile and conflict-affected states differs significantly across different groups. Multilateral development banks and other multilateral organizations perform better on average than bilateral organizations and vertical funds. Disaggregation of development partner performance at the institutional level and the partner country level enables the analysis successfully to identify good performance examples. In using the results of this paper to improve aid effectiveness, key additional steps should include (i) considering whether the identified challenges are essential; (ii) analyzing the factors/reasons behind good performance examples; and (iii) discussing whether good performance examples can provide lessons that can be adapted and applied.
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author	Ishihara, Yoichiro
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title	Identifying Aid Effectiveness Challenges in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States
title_short	Identifying Aid Effectiveness Challenges in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States
title_full	Identifying Aid Effectiveness Challenges in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States
title_fullStr	Identifying Aid Effectiveness Challenges in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States
title_full_unstemmed	Identifying Aid Effectiveness Challenges in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States
title_sort	identifying aid effectiveness challenges in fragile and conflict-affected states
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2012
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/04/16223318/identifying-aid-effectiveness-challenges-fragile-conflict-affected-states http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6039
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Identifying Aid Effectiveness Challenges in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States

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