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Managing Better: What All of Us Can Do to Encourage Aid Success
Dan Honig
February 05, 2020
Management by way of top-down controls and targets sometimes gets in the way of aid donors’ aims, undermining project success. These unhelpful controls often stem from a need to account for performance; legislatures or executive boards induce agencies to exercise tight process controls and ori...
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Actually Navigating by Judgment: Towards a New Paradigm of Donor Accountability Where the Current System Doesn’t Work
Dan Honig
February 05, 2020
This paper explores how donors can move towards greater Navigation by Judgment, highlighting the actions people inside and outside aid agencies can work to make change—encouraging more Navigation by Judgment on the margin, starting today. 
CGD NOTES
Creating an Accountability Framework that Serves the Global Fragility Act’s Mission
Susanna Campbell et al.
January 10, 2020
In the final days of 2019, Congress passed the Global Fragility Act, an ambitious bill that aims to improve how the US government approaches stabilizing conflict-affected states and preventing the escalation of violence in other fragile contexts. Here are some ideas to keep it accountable.
Blog Post
Let Local Leaders Lead: Why Donors Should Create More Space for Local Leadership
Dan Honig
September 27, 2019
Development partners have been talking about “letting the driver steer” for longer than I’ve been driving, but rarely has this gone beyond injunctions.
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Putting “Account” at the Center of “Accountability”: Why ICT Won’t Improve Education Systems (and Beyond), and What Will
Dan Honig
May 24, 2019
If you work in or on international development, the last time you heard, saw, thought, or said the word “accountability” was probably this week—maybe even today. Lant Pritchett and I argue in our new paper that accountability is, indeed, central to high-performing governa...
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The Limits of Accounting-Based Accountability in Education (and Far Beyond): Why More Accounting Will Rarely Solve Accountability Problems
Dan Honig
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Lant Pritchett
May 24, 2019
Accountability is rightly at the center of the conversation regarding how to improve governance systems, particularly health and education systems. But efforts to address accountability deficits often focus primarily on improving what can be counted and verified—what we term “accounting-...
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29

12:30—2:00 PM

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2055 L St, NW
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Navigation by Judgment
Charles Kenny
and
Dan Honig
May 15, 2018
In Navigation by Judgment, Dan Honig argues that high-quality implementation of foreign aid programs often requires contextual information that cannot be seen by those in distant headquarters. Tight controls and a focus on reaching pre-set measurable targets often prevent front-line workers fro...
CGD Talks

Jun

21

11:30—1:00 PM

Center for Global Development
2055 L Street NW
-Fifth Floor
What Should Tomorrow’s Aid Agencies Look Like?
Dan Honig
and
William Savedoff
June 07, 2016
What should tomorrow’s aid agencies look like in a landscape where the global goal is to ensure sustainable development? In the past, the role of aid has mainly been to “finance” specific projects or services, with a strong sense of donor identity and marked projections of donor in...
Research Seminar Series (RSS)

Feb

9

2:30—4:00 PM

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Penny-Wise, Pound-Foolish: How Does Autonomy for Field Agents Affect Development Project Outcomes?
Dan Honig
et al.
February 03, 2016
Bureaucracies with field operations that cannot be easily supervised and monitored are often caught in two potential sources of dysfunctions: field agents using asymmetric information to their own advantage, and limiting fields agents’ ability to use the same information to improve projects. I...
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Scott Family Liberia Fellows Selected
Dan Honig
and
Steve Radelet
May 21, 2007
The Center for Global Development is excited to announce the six Scott Family Liberia Fellows for 2007-2008. The six fellows were selected from 230 applicants and will serve as special assistants to senior Liberian government officials. CGD senior fellow Steve Radelet, who leads the Center’s work in...
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