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November 2012
Dear Colleague,
Features of Cash on Delivery Aid are emerging in new aid programs, including DFID’s Payment by Results pilots and the World Bank’s new Program for Results financing programs. As we eagerly watch for results and evaluations of those programs, we hope that development agencies will have a continued interest in testing the features that define a COD Aid program: a focus on outcomes, hands-off funders, independent verification of outcomes, and transparency. There is a lot to be learned from testing aid programs that comprise these elements.
We welcome your comments, questions or ideas; please send them here.
Regards,
Rita Perakis
Program Associate
Center for Global Development
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Seen and Heard
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Engineers Without Borders Canada is leading a campaign for more effective aid programs, starting with Cash on Delivery Aid, which they call a “smart risk”. See their web page for lots of resources including this brief that outlines how COD Aid is aligned with Canada’s aid priorities.
The UK Department for International Development is making headway on three Payment by Results pilots. More information about the results-based aid education pilot in Ethiopia, the first to be modeled after Cash on Delivery Aid, can be found here. Nancy Birdsall and Rita Perakis discuss the pilot here.
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| Can a COD Aid approach help to solve complex development challenges? In this blog post, Owen Barder and Ben Ramalingam look at how results-based approaches can be complementary to the idea of development as the emergent property of complex adaptive systems. A critique of some of the ideas presented, and Owen’s response, can be found in this blog post.
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Twaweza, a citizen-centered initiative in East Africa is implementing an experiment to test whether a Cash on Delivery approach can help to improve poor levels of learning in East African schools, as Rakesh Rajani, Twaweza´s founder, explains here.
For an overview of what COD Aid is and why donor agencies should try it, see Nancy Birdsall´s DevTalk presentation as a part of the USAID Frontiers in Development conference last summer.
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On the Horizon
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The Clinton Health Access Initiative has developed a proposal for applying COD Aid to malaria control and is in discussion with donors for the implementation of a multi-country pilot starting in 2013.
COD Aid is catching the attention of all kinds of public agencies interested in taking a more results-oriented approach to their programs. In November, Rita Perakis will present COD Aid at a conference titled “2014 and beyond: how to ensure delivery of better and more results by the European Social Fund.”
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The Development Impact Bonds Working Group convened by CGD and Social Finance UK is exploring a new results-based funding mechanism for development programs which builds in part on lessons learned from COD Aid. The concept of Development Impact Bonds is explained further in this blog post, wonkcast, and additional resources on our website. |
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