Fragmentation: The more the merrier, or too many cooks?

Monday, 17 March 2008 17:10

When there are many donors in one country giving small amounts of aid, the results might be more negative than positive. One of the questions donors have to ask themselves is, Does it all add up to results?

A survey of aid allocation policies conducted by the DAC formed the basis for a Policy Workshop on the Challenges of Scaling up Aid at the Country Level, held at OECD headquarters on 11 December 2007 in the framework of OECD’s Global Forum on Development – a three-year programme to address development financing issues. Within this year’s focus on ownership, the workshop looked at ways of dealing with the growing number of actors in development assistance, the need to improve the medium-term predictability of aid, and the importance of linking resource provision to national priorities – and with results.