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Challenges for donor agency country‐level performance assessment: a review
Author(s) -
Ireland Mark,
McGregor J. Allister,
Saltmarshe Douglas
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
public administration and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.574
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1099-162X
pISSN - 0271-2075
DOI - 10.1002/pad.293
Subject(s) - accountability , agency (philosophy) , decentralization , developing country , political science , accounting , public administration , public economics , business , public relations , economic growth , economics , sociology , social science , law
This review of country‐level performance assessment in donor agencies is primarily based upon the experiences documented by bilateral donors to developing countries. The review suggests that four emerging themes can be identified in the literature on country‐level performance review: ownership, decentralisation and leadership, accountability and learning and complexity. The review considers the implementation of ‘results‐based’ approaches used by a number of international agencies and examines their relationship with ‘evidence‐based’ approaches. A key challenge, in the development of performance assessment, is bringing in a stronger evidence‐based approach into the planning and evaluation of donor country‐level programmes. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.