Publication: The Drive to Partnership : Aid Coordination, and the World Bank
Date
2001-04
ISSN
Published
2001-04
Author(s)
Eriksson, John
Abstract
The report reviews the Bank's
experience with aid coordination, which lies at the
intersection of many development effectiveness challenges.
While globalization has brought new opportunities for
development rewards, poverty has increased, and concessional
aid shrunk. In 1995, the Bank focused on enhanced
development effectiveness, emphasizing on linkages with the
development community. An evaluative research was undertaken
in 1998/99, and since then, aid coordination, and
partnership has intensified, through initiatives such as the
Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP), a process by which
low-income countries are preparing PRSPs, and, efforts among
developing agencies, and bilateral donors are being made.
However, the report finds that many challenges still lie
ahead, and, examines results-based conceptual frameworks,
through the determinants of effective country-led aid
coordination, and mutual responsibility under country
leadership, through selected country experiences, measuring
the quality of aid coordination. While the review concludes
that the development community has been well-served by the
Bank's leadership, the goal of country leadership
remains elusive. Recommendations suggest that the Bank align
aid coordination policies, and practices with the
Comprehensive Development Framework's principles of
ownership, and partnership; and, that country teams
supporting consultative groups, work together with the
government, and development partners to formulate a strategy
for moving to country leadership.
Citation
“Eriksson, John. 2001. The Drive to Partnership : Aid Coordination, and the World Bank. © Washington, DC: World Bank. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/33edcc59-d7e7-50d8-9f83-0c0f714a9834 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”