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Nov
9
2015
10:00—11:30 AM
October 27, 2015
What is the best way to help the world’s poorest and most vulnerable?
The current humanitarian aid system - based around the delivery of physical supplies to those in need - is in dire need of change to reflect a simple reality: more people are in need and for longer. Evidence points to h...
Sep
15
2015
HYBRID
London, UK
2:00—3:30 PM
August 27, 2015
The humanitarian aid system is under severe strain. New approaches are needed to protect the lives and dignity of those affected and to ensure aid is spent as effectively as possible.
Evidence shows that unconditional cash transfers can be more efficient, more transparent, more accountable and ...
Mar
20
2015
1:00—2:30 PM
March 09, 2015
With all the hype (and criticism) over foreign aid programs that pay for results, what do we really know about how they are being implemented and whether they are effective? In their new paper “Does Results-Based Aid Change Anything? Pecuniary Interests, Attention, Accountability and Dis...
Blog Post
September 07, 2012
In the last of a series of three blog posts looking at the implications of complexity theory for development, Owen Barder and Ben Ramalingam look at the implications of complexity for the trend towards results-based management in development cooperation. They argue that is a common mistake to see a ...
Blog Post
June 11, 2012
This is a joint post with Rita Perakis
Last week, CGD and Social Finance launched a new high-level Working Group to consider Development Impact Bonds, a new mechanism to enable private investment in development outcomes. Owen Barder and Rita Perakis explain.
There is nothing new about ...
Blog Post
May 17, 2011
This is a joint post with Owen Barder.
In a recent blog post in the Guardian, Jonathan Glennie welcomes the new focus on results in foreign aid and has some good things to say about Cash on Delivery Aid (COD Aid) in particular. (We especially like this: “COD Aid demonstrates a post-ideologic...
Blog Post
May 21, 2010
This is a joint post with William Savedoff and Ayah Mahgoub.
Shout-out to Duncan Green and Oxfam for commenting on our new book and calling, like Nicholas Kristof, for pilots of COD Aid. Best of all, Duncan noted (as have several others such as Owen Barder in this note among others) that man...