Beyond Paris: 11 Innovations in Aid Effectiveness

Unfinished Agenda or Overtaken by Events? Applying Aid- and Development-Effectiveness Principles to Capacity Development Support

“…The use of short-and long-term personnel is also referred to as technical assistance (TA), a subset of TC. 13 The total amount of TC provided through ODA is estimated at US$ 25 billion per year in 2010 (Hradsky et al 2010), while other studies estimate it at 25 per cent of global ODA (DFID 2013;Morris / Pryke 2011;Hradsky et al 2010). Determining what proportion of the overall volume of TC contributes to supporting capacity development processes is, however, a complicated matter.…”

A Framework for Understanding Aid Effectiveness Determinants, Strategies and Tradeoffs

“…There are many writers on aid effectiveness, official, academic and activist, and it is useful to have a framework within which their arguments can be situated. This may prove useful for the analysis of particular aid topics: see, for example, McNee () on aid for health, and Morris and Pryke () for an analysis of aid reforms.…”

Open Data on a Closed Shop? Assessing the potential of transparency initiatives with a focus on efforts to strengthen capacity development support

“…The term covers a wide range of interventions that includes short‐ and long‐term personnel, training and research, twinning, peer support and associated costs. Some studies estimate that total technical co‐operation investments amount to a quarter of global ODA (for example, DFID, ; Morris and Pryke, ).…”

“…The term covers a wide range of interventions that includes short-and long-term personnel, training and research, twinning, peer support and associated costs. Some studies estimate that total technical co-operation investments amount to a quarter of global ODA (for example, DFID, 2013; Morris and Pryke, 2011). International development statistics distinguish two types of TC grants: (1) freestanding technical co-operation (FTC), 'whose primary purpose is to augment the level of knowledge, skills, technical know-how or productive aptitudes of the population of developing countries, that is to say increasing their stock of human intellectual capital, or their capacity for more effective use of their existing factor endowment'; and (2) investment-related technical co-operation (IRTC), 'services by a donor country with the primary purpose of contributing to the design and/or implementation of a project or programme aiming to increase the physical capital stock of the recipient country' (OECD, 2010a: 15, 16).…”