Application to Other Sectors

The Center for Global Development has developed a design for a new form of aid called Cash on Delivery Aid, under which donors would pay for measurable progress on specific outcomes pre-agreed with recipient governments. It builds on existing initiatives that strive to disburse aid against results, but it takes the idea further by linking payments more directly to a single specific outcome; giving the recipient increased authority to achieve progress however it sees fit; and assuring that the recipient country’s progress is transparent and visible to its own citizens. This page includes analyses of how the approach can be applied to development goals in a range of sectors. 

Issues in Applying the Cash on Delivery Aid Approach
In this note, William Savedoff briefly describes COD Aid and offers guidance for discussions on applying it to new sectors.

Cash on Delivery Aid for Water
In this note, Robert Kaplan, the Chief Advisor to the Executive Vice President at the Inter-American Development Bank provides an overview of the objectives and challenges of providing access to water and outlines options for a COD Aid application to increase access to potable water.

The Future for U.S. Engagement on International Tobacco Control
CGD visiting fellow Thomas Bollyky discusses the need for new approaches to global tobacco control in in this paper published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.  The report includes an analysis of how COD Aid could create incentives for more effective tobacco control strategies in developing countries.

COD Aid