20 years of DFID's Results Agenda
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ODI just launched a report reviewing how DFID's results agenda over past 20 years has influenced the way aid is implemented. Here are three key points from a blog by the authors, which bear on our experience of market systems development programming.
Change the assumption that we can predict, with certainty, what our interventions will achieve. Rejecting this world-view means taking results and accountability more seriously, not less. Interventions need to be based on the best available information, with regular testing to see if they are on the right track, rather than being overly focused on pre-planned numbers.
Reformers within DFID are seeking positive change through ensuring flexibility, encouraging greater learning, and focusing on the causes of poverty and conflict. These reformers require support.
Beyond that, the full implications of 0.7% should be rethought. The government must adequately staff in-country expertise, commit to longer-term programmes, and reconsider where money can be spent effectively – which won’t always be in fragile states.
Summary of the Report :
http://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/dfid-is-20-years-old-has-its-results-agenda-gone-too-far/
Webinar recording of launch debate:
https://www.odi.org/events/4496-dfid-20-what-have-we-learned-and-where-next
Sept. 14, 2017, 3:03 p.m.
Pieter Ypma