231109 Aid Accountability and Effectiveness: How to Measure Progress and Results

Tuesday, November 9, 2010 : 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM

Elvira Beracochea, MD, MPH , MIDEGO, Fairfax, VA
     
The principles of the Paris Declaration are: Ownership, Harmonization, Alignment, Results and Mutual Accountability. These principles are essential to improve aid effectiviness. This presentation will be part of an invited panel presentation on a simple model to decide what and how to monitor accountability and aid effectiveness. Taking monitoring and evaluation methods to a new level of individual and organizational accountability, the authors presents a number of tools for donors, countries and development organizations to adhere to the principles of the Paris Declaration signed by over a hundred countries and international agencies in 2005. The authors will describe a model based on the principles of quality, efficiency and consistency, and discuss pros and cons of various tools to decide what and how to monitor aid effectiveness: stakeholder analysis, accountability trees and worksheets, success milestones, health scorecards, value-added analysis, process maps and impact/effort worksheets.

Learning Areas:
Public health or related laws, regulations, standards, or guidelines
Public health or related organizational policy, standards, or other guidelines
Public health or related public policy

Learning Objectives:
1) Identify principles of aid effectiveness for international efforts that can improve the effectiveness of international foreign aid to developing countries. 2) Describe how aid effectiveness and accountability can be monitored and evaluated 3) Formulate strategies donors, governments and development organizations can use to evaluate the effectiveness of their aid, with the purpose of making recommendations that could inform an APHA resolution.

Keywords: Evidence Based Practice, Evaluation

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have more than 25 years of international health practice
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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