Accountability in International Development Aid

Wenar, Leif

doi:10.1111/j.1747-7093.2006.00001.x

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“…Thus, there are several advantages that can accrue to NGOs from voluntarily undertaking more effective accountability activities despite the extra costs. More effective accountability will enhance incentives for improved performance, encourage NGOs to become more closely aligned with community perspectives, and enhance shared learning about good practices and programs (Wenar 2006). It will provide greater assurance to donors and supporters, and help expand their support.…”

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“…It will also help achieve the morality and transparency considerations that NGOs strongly subscribe to by increasing their credibility and influence, and enhancing their ability to influence larger stakeholders to become more accountable (Sawarung 2003). By initiating more effective accountability mechanisms, NGOs can avoid the imposition of inappropriate and top-down accountability mechanisms by external stakeholders and protect themselves from politically motivated attacks (Wenar 2006;Unerman and O'Dwyer 2006).…”

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Putting the Lasts First: The Case for Community-Focused and Peer-Managed NGO Accountability Mechanisms

Murtaza

2011

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The calls for NGO accountability have grown louder in recent years, some based on genuine concerns to help improve their performance and others on a desire to muffle their advocacy activities. Using a comprehensive analytical framework, this article finds that current accountability approaches prioritize accountability to boards and donors and give weak accountability to communities despite strong NGO rhetoric to the contrary. The article recommends the development of accountability mechanisms managed by NGO coordination bodies and focused primarily on accountability to communities to improve NGO performance and protect them from politically motivated attacks.Résumé Les appels à la responsabilité des ONG se sont faits plus pressants ces dernières années. Certains s'appuient sur une volonté authentique de les aider à améliorer leur efficacité, et d'autres sur le désir d'étouffer leurs activités de soutien. À travers une démarche analytique complète, cet article démontre que les approches actuelles privilégient la responsabilité des ONG face aux commissions et aux donateurs et leur attribuent une faible responsabilité devant les communautés, en dépit des démentis formels des ONG. Cet article recommande le développement de mécanismes de responsabilité gérés par les organismes de coordination des ONG et principalement axés sur la responsabilité face aux communautés, afin d'améliorer l'efficacité des ONG et de les protéger des attaques à visée politique. Resumen En los últimos años cada vez son más las voces que reclaman a las ONG la presentación de sus cuentas, algunas basadas en auténticas preocupaciones por ayudar a mejorar sus resultados y otras desde el deseo de amortiguar sus actividades de defensa. Utilizando un marco analítico exhaustivo, este artículo revela que los actuales enfoques de rendición de cuentas dan prioridad a los consejos y los donantes, y ofrecen escasos informes a las comunidades pese a que las ONG se esfuerzan en asegurar lo contrario. En este artículo se recomienda desarrollar los mecanismos de rendimiento de cuentas gestionados por los organismos de coordinación de las ONG y centrados básicamente en la presentación de esas cuentas a las comunidades con el fin de mejorar los resultados de las ONG y protegerlas de ataques con motivaciones políticas.

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Section: Accountability Of Ngos: An Analytical Frameworkmentioning

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Section: Accountability Of Ngos: An Analytical Frameworkmentioning

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Putting the Lasts First: The Case for Community-Focused and Peer-Managed NGO Accountability Mechanisms

Murtaza

2011

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“…The concept of accountability also implies the possibility of negative evaluation accompanied by sanction, or the possibility of positive evaluation and reward (Wenar, 2006).…”

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“…For efficiency reasons, it is important to increase accountability to the extent that this results in greater poverty reduction because a higher degree of accountability also involves costs (Wenar, 2006).…”

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International donor agencies’ incentive structures and foreign aid effectiveness

Monkam

2012

Journal of Institutional Economics

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This paper examines in depth one of the potential causes of the low performance of foreign aid; in particular, the role incentive structures within international donor agencies could play in leading to 'a push' to disburse money. This pressure to disburse money is termed as the 'Money-Moving Syndrome' (MMS). The theoretical analysis in this paper relies on the principal-agent theory to explore how donor agencies' institutional incentive systems may affect the characteristics of an optimal and efficient incentive contract and thus give rise to the MMS. The basic framework of the principal-agent theory was innovatively adapted to fit the organizational settings of donor agencies. The model concludes that the extent to which a performance measure based on the amount of aid allocated within a specific period of time would lead to the MMS and affect aid effectiveness depends on the level of 'institutional imperatives', the degree of aid agency's accountability for effectiveness, the level of corruption in recipient countries and the degree of difficulty to evaluate development activities.

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“…A common underlying assumption is that "the comprehensive availability and accessibility of aid information in a timely, systematic and comparable manner" [14] would increase transparency and allow stakeholders to coordinate better. Opening and sharing basic aid information on the "three Ws of aid: who is doing what, where" is considered a prerequisite for better coordination [15], [16].…”

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An Analysis of Aid Information Management Systems (AIMS) in Developing Countries: Explaining the Last Two Decades

Park¹

2017

Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (2017)

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Accountability in International Development Aid

Cited by 149 publications

References 18 publications

Putting the Lasts First: The Case for Community-Focused and Peer-Managed NGO Accountability Mechanisms

Putting the Lasts First: The Case for Community-Focused and Peer-Managed NGO Accountability Mechanisms

International donor agencies’ incentive structures and foreign aid effectiveness

An Analysis of Aid Information Management Systems (AIMS) in Developing Countries: Explaining the Last Two Decades

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