How transparent are aid agencies to their citizens? Introducing the Citizen Aid Transparency Dataset

Reinsberg, Bernhard; Swedlund, Haley J.

doi:10.1002/jid.3762

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“…Transparency is vital for accountability in development partnerships because it enables monitoring actions against past commitments (Ghosh & Kharas, 2011;Reinsberg & Swedlund, 2023). While GDG actors have emphasised transparency for some time, under GDG 2.0, more-but not necessarily better-data are available, including on funds, partners, processes and impact.…”

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Global Development Governance 2.0: Fractured accountabilities in a divided governance complex

Haug,

Taggart

2023

Global Policy

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The proliferation of state and non‐state actors, along with increasing institutional complexity, has led to a qualitative shift in Global Development Governance (GDG) towards what we term ‘GDG 2.0’. Realising accountability in this context presents challenges due to growing actor diversity, institutional plurality and a lack of formalised accountability structures. Building on the introduction to this special section, we explore the potential of ‘forward‐looking’ approaches to accountability, notably collective deliberation, learning and competition. Despite the importance of these mechanisms for GDG processes, conceptualising them as accountability tools may have limited gains and indeed reinforce the preferences of established actors, dilute useful monitoring approaches and divert attention from longstanding agendas. We argue that prioritising enabling environments for more circumscribed ‘backward‐looking’ accountability—with a focus on standard‐setting and monitoring—may be more feasible and effective towards holding decision‐makers to account within the GDG 2.0 context.

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Global Development Governance 2.0: Fractured accountabilities in a divided governance complex

Haug,

Taggart

2023

Global Policy

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Attention Versus Handshakes: Pathways of Influence in China's Foreign Aid and Loans

Lu,

Williams

2024

J of Intl Development

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Numerous studies show that China uses its ODA‐like overseas development financing to promote soft power and improve its international image. In this study, we seek to understand how. We examine the role of Chinese state‐sponsored media and diplomacy as complements to Chinese foreign aid. We propose that the coverage of aid recipients in Xinhua articles targeted at foreign audiences, as well as the number of diplomatic visits from Beijing hosted by a recipient government, increase in proportion to the amount of aid these countries receive from China. In contrast, we propose either a null or reverse relationship in the case of OOF‐like flows from China, which tend to be more associated with loans and business‐oriented interests. To test these hypotheses, we use AidData's Chinese development finance dataset and its recently released diplomacy dataset, along with meta‐data from millions of Xinhua news articles between 2002 and 2017. The analysis provides partial support for our argument, but the results deviate from our expectations in interesting ways. First, while aid (ODA) recipients receive more coverage in Xinhua, they are not disproportionately more likely to host missions from Beijing. Conversely, while loan (OOF) recipients are not more likely to receive coverage in Xinhua, they are more likely to host diplomatic visits. These results suggest that China likes to publicize its role as a donor for image building, but seeks closer ties with its debtors to further bilateral relationships.

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What influences the capacity of donor agency for sustainable development: a study of climate aid projects

Wang,

2024

Environ Dev Sustain

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How transparent are aid agencies to their citizens? Introducing the Citizen Aid Transparency Dataset

Cited by 4 publications

References 53 publications

Global Development Governance 2.0: Fractured accountabilities in a divided governance complex

Global Development Governance 2.0: Fractured accountabilities in a divided governance complex

Attention Versus Handshakes: Pathways of Influence in China's Foreign Aid and Loans

What influences the capacity of donor agency for sustainable development: a study of climate aid projects

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