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Independent research & practical ideas for global prosperity Cash on Delivery Aid Update
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SEEN AND HEARD
Last week, a COD Aid proposal was presented at the World Economic Forum’s Global Redesign Summit in Doha. The Summit is a forum for government, business, academic and NGO leaders to endorse and take action on proposals for improving international cooperation. COD AID IN THE MEDIA Owen Barder published An Open Letter to Aid Skeptics that challenges the donor community to try COD Aid in a special report on development in Africa (on pg 21) in the Center for International Relation’s spring issue of The Forum. Lex Riefel, a senior fellow at the United States Institute of Peace, argues that the international community, if and when it provides aid to Burma, should offer aid through more effective means such as COD Aid in his Special Report on the Economy of Burma/Myanmar on the Eve of the 2010 Elections. Oxfam’s Duncan Green blogged about the COD Aid book and suggested, as have others including Nicholas Kristof and the UK Conservative Party, that COD Aid be piloted. Our response to his post can be found here. UNESCO has posted a response from Nancy, Bill and me to a box on COD Aid included in UNESCO’s 2010 Education for All Monitoring Report on COD Aid. ON THE HORIZON Next month, the World Bank’s Operations Policy and Country Services division and its Human Development Network are co-hosting a roundtable discussion of our book Cash on Delivery: A New Approach to Foreign Aid with an Application to Primary Schooling. Bill and Katherine will release a note outlining possible indicators for health applications of COD Aid. This note will include a discussion of maternal health, child health and infant mortality indicators. Bill and I will release a short report offering recommendations for how COD Aid can be applied to education in Liberia. |
LOOKING FORWARDA new member has joined the COD Aid team! Rita Perakis has joined the Center for Global Development as Nancy Birdsall’s program coordinator on aid effectiveness, and will work with Nancy, Bill, Nandini, Katherine and our colleagues on the COD Aid initiative. To learn more about the approach and the initiative, you can read Cash on Delivery: A new approach to foreign aid with an application to primary schooling, and visit the COD Aid page of our website. We appreciate the continued input and collaboration of many individuals, and welcome additional comments, ideas and questions. Please send them here. Best wishes, |
Last month, Owen Barder presented COD Aid at a seminar at Save the Children UK. The focus of the discussion was on the application of the approach to maternal health. You can read more about this possible application in 
