Whether time moves linearly or circularly, is subject to debate in the natural and social sciences. Meanwhile, the FFD4 process suggests the primacy of circularity, at least when reading the draft outcome document’s references to “Official Development Assistance” (ODA). In brief, the document calls for scaling up the volume of ODA (colloquially foreign aid) along…
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Over the last decade, Germany emerged as a leading provider of development finance. Since 2016, Germany has consistently been the second largest bilateral provider of official development assistance (ODA), and in 2020, it was the only G7 member to meet the 0.7 percent ODA/GNI spending target due to its generous increases in ODA in response to COVID-19. While Germany continues to provide a large quantity of ODA, it often ranks in the middle on comparative measures of development quality (for example: 2021 Quality of ODA index, Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation monitoring, Aid Transparency Index, and AidDATA’s Listening to Leaders survey)…
Portfolio an Instrumenten erweitern
Ein Trend in der internationalen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit ist die zunehmende Bedeutung von ergebnisbasierten Ansätzen. Ergebnisbasierte Ansätze knüpfen Gelder direkt an messbare Entwicklungswirkungen anstatt Wirkungen nur mittelbar zu finanzieren wie traditionelle Instrumente der Entwicklungsfinanzierung. Die international bedeutenden Geber Großbritannien, USA und die Weltbank pilotieren bereits eigene ergebnisbasierte Ansätze. Deutschland sollte das auch tun.
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