Improving the Predictability of Aid: Experiences at the Country Level

Sponsor: Poverty Reduction and Development Effectiveness (PRMPR)
 
Presenter/s: Allister Moon (via videoconference from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) and Carlos Cavalcanti
                                                            
Chair: Vera Wilhelm (PRMPR)
 
Discussant: Punam Chuhan-Pole (DECVP)
 
When: November 29, 2007, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Description: Although not a new phenomenon, aid predictability is becoming an increasingly important issue in the aid effectiveness agenda, as the costs of volatility are becoming increasingly clearer and more evident with more aid being channeled via program aid. Based on the experience in Tanzania and Ghana, the session will describe how to better manage aid volatility at the country level and present a few ideas on what donors can do in terms of changing their aid allocation mechanisms to promote long-term predictability of aid.

Target Audience: Country economists and economists

Background Paper:

• Reducing the Transaction Costs of Development Assistance: Ghana, by Carlos Cavalcanti (1.10mb PDF)

Presentations:

• Increasing Aid Predictability: The MDBS Experience in Ghana, by Carlos Cavalcanti (102kb PDF)
• Aid Predictability in Tanzania, by Allister Moon (51kb PDF)
• Improving the Predictability of Aid: Experiences at the Country Level, by Punam Chuhan-Pole (75kb PDF)

Back to PRSP Learning Events