Targetting effectiveness
Aid should be provided with clear targets and aimed at measurable results, and both donors and recipients should be held more accountable for achieved specified goals. This will require specifying up front exactly what a particular aid program is designed to achieve: building so many roads of a particular quality or immunizing a certain number of children. It will also require assessments by independent monitors, not by the aid agencies themselves.
That is one of Steve Radelet's five ways to make aid more effective. Needless to say, I agree.
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There's been a lot of talk about Mutual Accountability since Paris. But as Dash grumbles in The Incredibles, "Saying *everyone* is accountable is just another way of saying *nobody* is."
If the targeted number of HIV+ people aren't getting their drugs, what is needed is not mutual accountability, but for the responsible partner to be accountable.
It seems like mutual accountability is just a way of avoiding blame for failed projects, patting ourselves on the back and saying, "well, we're all responsible, so let's hope things go better next time."
Posted by: Paul | May 9, 2006 10:46:22 AM