From Rome to Accra via Kigali: ‘Aid Effectiveness’ in Rwanda

Hayman, Rachel

doi:10.1111/j.1467-7679.2009.00460.x

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“…Although researchers have given considerable attention to international donor coordination (de Renzio et al, 2004;Rogerson, 2005;Bigsten, 2006;Menocal and Mulley, 2006;Hyden, 2008;Hayman,engagement with coordination. Consequently, this article contributes to the growing research on the EU's role as an international development actor (cf.…”

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The EU and Donor Coordination on the Ground: Perspectives from Tanzania and Zambia

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Orbie

2014

Eur J Dev Res

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The proliferation of aid donors and channels for aid and the resulting fragmentation brings about huge costs for developing and donor countries and has a detrimental effect on the impact of aid. Coordination is presented as a strategy to help resolve this problem and has been at the top of the development agenda in the past decade. The EU has on many occasions expressed its ambition to foster this agenda and strengthen internal EU coordination. However, the few existing contemporary studies suggest that the implementation of coordination is fairly low. This article seeks to understand this gap through an empirical analysis of EU coordination in Tanzania and Zambia. The findings reveal that the EU's internal and external coordination role has indeed been limited. It is argued that challenges to EU coordination can partly be explained by institutional factors, but that ideational and political elements should also be considered in order to gain a more profound understanding.La prolifération de donateurs d'aide et de mécanismes de développement et la fragmentation qui en résulte génèrent des coûts considérables aussi bien pour les pays en voie de développement que pour les pays donateurs et ont un effet néfaste sur l'impact de l'aide. Au cours de la dernière décennie, la coordination, vue comme stratégie pour résoudre ces problèmes, se situait en haut de l'agenda de la politique de développement internationale. À maintes reprises l'UE a exprimé son ambition de stimuler cet agenda et de renforcer la coordination interne au sein de l'UE. Mais les rares études contemporaines suggèrent que la mise en oeuvre de la coordination a été très faible. Cet article cherche à comprendre ce gap au moyen d'une analyse empirique de la coordination de l'UE en Tanzanie et en Zambie. Les résultats révèlent qu'effectivement le rôle de coordination interne et externe de l'UE dans les pays susmentionnés a été limité. Il est clair que les défis pour la coordination de la part de l'UE peuvent être expliqués partiellement par des facteurs institutionnels, mais qu'il faut aussi tenir compte de facteurs idéationnels et politiques pour arriver à une compréhension plus approfondie.

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The EU and Donor Coordination on the Ground: Perspectives from Tanzania and Zambia

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Orbie

2014

Eur J Dev Res

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“…Frictions in this conceptualisation are just as acute, both within recipient governments (Hayman, 2009) and between recipient governments and donor agencies. The organisation that forged the Paris Declaration admitted even prior to this 2005 landmark that '[t]he lack of capacity at the middle management levels […] pose an inherent challenge for donors pursuing […] ownership' (OECD, 2003, p. 128).…”

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Elusive accountabilities in the HIV scale-up: ‘Ownership’ as a functional tautology

Esser

2014

Global Public Health

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Mounting concerns over aid effectiveness have rendered 'ownership' a central concept in the vocabulary of development assistance for health (DAH). The article investigates the application of both 'national ownership' and 'country ownership' in the broader development discourse as well as more specifically in the context of internationally funded HIV/AIDS interventions. Based on comprehensive literature reviews, the research uncovers a multiplicity of definitions, most of which either divert from or plainly contradict the concept's original meaning and intent. During the last 10 years in particular, it appears that both public and private donors have advocated for greater 'ownership' by recipient governments and countries to hedge their own political risk rather than to work towards greater inclusion of the latter in agenda-setting and programming. Such politically driven semantic dynamics suggest that the concept's salience is not merely a discursive reflection of globally skewed power relations in DAH but a deliberate exercise in limiting donors' accountabilities. At the same time, the research also finds evidence that this conceptual contortion frames current global public health scholarship, thus adding further urgency to the need to critically re-evaluate the international political economy of global public health from a discursive perspective.

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“…Rwanda can be considered as one of the most advanced examples for aid effectiveness (see Hayman, 2009). In 2006, Rwanda introduced an aid policy that applied the PD to its own specific context.…”

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Costs, Benefits and the Political Economy of Aid Coordination: The Case of the European Union

Klingebiel

Negre

Morazán³

2017

Eur J Dev Res

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Although it is not possible to identify a specific, theoretical optimum level of aid coordination for the European Union, there is a broad consensus on the need for reduced transaction costs and greater impact through a stronger adherence to coordination standards. However, neither member states nor European institutions consequently follow a policy in line with a clear coordination principle. And nor do partner countries always push for more donor coordination. This article uses evidence from two country case studies, Myanmar and Rwanda, in which a conducive aid coordination environment is assumed. The former represents the new foundation of an aid architecture in a country, thus expecting the application of high aid effectiveness standards. The latter consists of a partner government with a strong leading role in aid. Although the political economy of donors and partner countries does not always favour coordination, strong recipient government leadership is crucial to align developmental objectives and clearly establish comparative advantages and division of labour among donors.Même si ce n'est pas possible d'identifier un niveau de coordination d'aide qui soit spécifique et théoriquement optimal pour l'Union Européenne, on est d'accord sur la nécessité de réduire les couts de transaction, et sur la nécessité d'augmenter l'impact de l'aide à travers une adhérence plus forte aux standards de coordination. Cependant, soit les Etats membres que les institutions Européennes ne suivent pas une politique conforme aux principes de la coordination. Les pays partenaires non plus ne demandent pas toujours plus de coordination entre donneurs. Cet article utilise l'évidence de deux pays, le Myanmar et le Rwanda, ou on suppose que l'aide est dispensée dans un environnement de coordination. Au Myanmar, il y a une nouvelle architecture de l'aide, au sein de laquelle on supposerait que l'efficacité de l'aide dispensée est gouvernée par des standards très hauts. Au Rwanda, le gouvernement prend un rôle de premier plan dans la coordination de l'aide. Même si la politique économique des pays donneurs et récipiendaires n'est pas toujours coordonnés, c'est impératif d'avoir une direction forte chez les récipiendaires, ce qui aide l'alignement des objectifs et la division du travail parmi les donneurs en base à leurs avantages comparatifs.

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From Rome to Accra via Kigali: ‘Aid Effectiveness’ in Rwanda

Cited by 57 publications

References 6 publications

The EU and Donor Coordination on the Ground: Perspectives from Tanzania and Zambia

The EU and Donor Coordination on the Ground: Perspectives from Tanzania and Zambia

Elusive accountabilities in the HIV scale-up: ‘Ownership’ as a functional tautology

Costs, Benefits and the Political Economy of Aid Coordination: The Case of the European Union

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