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A new approach to foreign aid’s application to primary schoolingBased on work by Nancy Birdsall, William D Savedoff and Ayah Mahgoub
Ayah [email protected]
All Children Reading by 2015: From Assessment to Action
April 12-14, 2010Washington, DC
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Cash on Delivery Aid
Why doesn’t aid “work” in many low-income countries?
A different funder-recipient relationship: Cash on Delivery Aid
Donors pay for outcomes only and not inputs
Photo: USAID
Photo: Net
Countries use funds for whatever input mix and policy changes they believe will work best
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Perhaps textbooksteacher trainingPhoto: U.S. Department of State
Photo: Anna Lindh Euro Mediterranean Foundation
conditional cash transfers
Photo: Prefectura Municipal de Erechim
improving roads so children can get to school
early nutrition programs to boost learning outcomes
Photo: Horizons UnlimitedPhoto: Pierre Holtz, UNICEF
Donors eschew hands-on input approachIdentification
Design
Negotiation
Approval
Startup
Implementation
Tech. Assist.
M & E
Final “Evaluation”
Outcome Measurement?
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Traditional ProjectAid
Donor engaged in
almost every phase
Photo: Government of Bulgaria
Missions for meetingsTo discuss the processFor disbursing funds
For improving the processFor technical assistance
For receiving missions …
In favor of hands-off COD
Identification
Design
Negotiation
Approval
Startup
Implementation
Tech. Assist.
M & E
Final “Evaluation”
Outcome Measurement
$
Traditional ProjectAid
Donor engaged in
almost every phase
Cash on Delivery Aid
$Validation of outcomes by third party
Donor and recipient agree
measure of progress
The contract and annual results are public
The results are independently verified
Technical Assistance
Education Projects
Sector Programs (e.g. SWAPs)
Budget Support
Global Initiatives (e.g. FTI)
COD Aid
Bilateral Agencies
Private Foundations
Multilateral Institutions
NGOsDomestic Spending
Foreign Aid
Domestic Taxpayers
In reality: COD Aid is likely to complement other input funding
• Shared goalo universal completion of quality primary education
• Unit of progress o “Assessed Completer” (a student enrolled in the last
year of primary school who takes an approved standardized test)
• Paymento funder pays US$200 per Assessed Completer beyond
base year enrollment, regardless of test scores• Transparency
o recipient publishes enrollments, Assessed Completers & test scores; funder contracts an agent to conduct retests in a random sample of schools
Making it practical:universal primary completion
• Shared goalo every child reading by 2015
• Unit of progress o every child of a certain age (e.g. 8 years) that passes
an approved reading assessment• Payment
o funder pays US$200 per additional child that passes the assessment exam beyond base year number
• Transparencyo recipient publishes number of youth of testing age,
the number of assessed youth & test scores; funder contracts an agent to conduct retests
A possible application of COD Aid for reading
To learn more
For further information, pleaseo Visit the COD Aid page on our website at
www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/o Email Ayah Mahgoub at
[email protected] or Bill Savedoff at [email protected]