Others write about COD Aid

The COD Aid proposal has generated interest in many different places. The following publications that reference COD Aid are neither authored nor commissioned by CGD. They are included here to further discussion about the approach.

Results-Based Aid (RBA) and its Application to Promote Good Governance

In this paper, Stephan Klingebiel of the German Development Institute discusses challenges and possibilities in applying Cash on Delivery Aid and other results-based aid approaches to the field of governance.

Can Donors Be Flexible within Restrictive Budget Systems? Options for Innovative Financing Mechanisms

In this CGD working paper, Ben Leo discusses how governments’ budgetary systems can affect their ability or willingness to support innovative finance initiatives and explores several options to overcome the restrictions the systems often impose.

“Cash on Delivery Aid” – A Response to CAFOD

In this brief, Owen Barder, the Director of aidinfo at Development Initiatives and a CGD Visiting Fellow, addresses the concerns about COD Aid outlined in a brief by the UK-based international development organization, CAFOD.

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The UK Conservative Party announced strong support of COD Aid in its green paper on international development issued in the summer of 2009.

Using Effective Aid to Tackle Poverty

The UK Conservative Party produced this two minute video on COD Aid.

Africa: Preserving Progress at a Time of Crisis

CGD work on COD Aid was referenced in this brief issued by Kofi Annan and the Africa Progress Panel in the winter of 2009.

GMF Transatlantic Taskforce report

In this report produced in the winter of 2009, the German Marshall Fund’s Transatlantic Taskforce on Development includes COD Aid as an example of an aid approach that stimulates results. That section can be found on page 58 of the report.

Cash on Delivery Aid: Incentive Issues in a Multi-Model Aid System

In this paper, Jessica Brown, a student at Oxford University, discusses theories that address incentive structures and applies them in thinking about whether and how COD Aid would interact with other aid approaches.