Corruption and Aid
No aid modality, agency or recipient is free from corruption risks. Find resources on the scope and nature of these risks and how they can be identified and addressed.
Concern about possible corruption in aid flows and projects has grown with increased pressure on donor aid budgets and greater attention to aid effectiveness. Not every donor, recipient or project will be equally exposed to corrupt practices; the context, modalities, choice of partners, and systems for detection all affect risk levels. Equally important is how aid providers respond and how they promote integrity from within.
Among the resources in this U4 Theme Page you will:
- Understand about the challenges associated with per diems
- Find evidence on corruption’s impact in different aid modalities
- Learn lessons for effective whistle-blowing mechanisms
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Member countries of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) are asked to deliver action plans with commitments towards making their governments more transparent, accountable and participatory. With more than 40 of the OGP’s 55 members having submitted their action plans,Global Integrity has analyzed to what extent they are specific, measurable, actionable, relevant and time-bound. Overall, their assessment shows that there is cause for optimism, with nearly 70 percent of the submitted action plans meet at least four out of the five criteria.
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Author:
Moon, S. and Williamson, T.
Release date:
January 2010
Greater aid transparency: crucial for aid effectiveness
This paper explores the link between donor aid and recipient country budgets, and the role that greater transparency about aid can play in improving budget transparency, the quality of budgetary decisions, and accountability systems. The paper goes on to explore how current initiatives to improve aid transparency can best support better budgets and accountability in aid dependent countries.
Author:
Knack, S. and Eubank, N.
Release date:
July 2009
Aid and Trust in Country Systems
It is generally understood that country systems are strengthened when donors trust recipients to manage aid funds, but undermined when donors manage aid through their own separate parallel systems. This paper provides an analytical framework for understanding donors decisions to trust in country systems or instead to micro-manage aid using their own systems and procedures. The authors show using fixed effects regression that a donor’s trust in recipient country systems is positively related to (1) trustworthiness or quality of those systems, (2) tolerance for risk on the part of the donor’s constituents, as measured by public support for providing aid, and (3) the donor’s ability to internalize more of the benefits of investing in country systems, as measured by the donor’s share of all aid provided to a recipient.
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