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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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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| 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 |
| Summary: | 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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