News
- The quality of Australian aid—an international perspective
How does Australia compare to international best practice? Drawing largely from analysis completed by the Brookings Institution, this paper examines the performance of Australia’s aid program based on the Quality of Official Development Assistance (QuODA) index and three other global assessments of donor aid performance. - New ODE partnerships with the Overseas Development Institute and the World Bank Independent Evaluation Group
ODE has recently established two new international partnerships: Overseas Development Institute's Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure (CAPE), and World Bank Independent Evaluation Group's Regional Centers for Learning on Evaluation and Results. - Brookings paper: Taking development activities to scale in fragile and low capacity environments
New research from the Brookings Institution on taking development activities to scale in fragile and low capacity environments finds that contrary to expectations, many donors are succeeding in scaling up in fragile states. - Independent review of aid effectiveness
The Office of Development Effectiveness welcomes the Australian Government's independent review of aid effectiveness. - Improving the provision of basic services for the poor
Practical insights and guidance about how donors can support public sector reform in partner countries, in order to build capacity to deliver services like health, education and water and sanitation. - Increasing aid effectiveness through enhanced cooperation with the Brookings Institution
John Davidson, Assistant Director General of the Office of Development Effectiveness (ODE), is participating in two events hosted by the Brookings Institution in coming months: a workshop on Catalysing Development: A New Vision for Aid (29-30 July 2010) and the Brookings Blum Roundtable on Development Assistance Reform for the 21st Century (4-6 August 2010). Both events will make an important contribution to debate at the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in 2011 and other critical upcoming meetings considering the effectiveness of aid. The Brookings Institution and ODE signed a 2 year collaborative partnership agreement in June 2010.