Part of 'ReCom – research and communication on foreign aid' project
Since the late 1990s there has been shift in the way foreign aid is intended to be distributed to the social sectors, moving from traditional forms of project aid towards more comprehensive instruments of development assistance, including public-private partnerships, and international financing mechanisms.
Foreign aid to the social sectors, and the number of donors, has been quickly growing. For instance, since the 1990s, aid to health care has increased almost threefold to 12 billion US dollars. In this animation we look at how aid works in relation to social sectors such as health, education, water, sanitation, and social protection.
The film is part of a series produced by UNU-WIDER on the project 'ReCom--Research and Communication on Foreign Aid'. It can, for instance, be used when teaching students about the impact of foreign aid.
An interview with Professor Lant Pritchett from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, conducted during his visit to Helsinki to deliver a presentation titled 'It’s a Deals World: The Dynamics of Capitalism with Weak Institutions' at a...
At the ReCom meeting evaluating the results on aid and social sectors, speakers were asked the question; what role are results-based approaches playing in foreign aid to the social sectors?
In this interview Professor Armando Barrientos from the University of Manchester explains why the use of social protection is increasing and highlights a number of success stories. But he also explains why foreign aid can play only a limited role in this area.
How can aid to the social sectors—particularly health care and education, but also water and sanitation, and more recently social protection—be justified? These topics were discussed during the ReCom Results meeting on ‘Aid and social sectors’ in...
In foreign aid, results are the buzz word of the day; evaluation, monitoring, and quality control are the means of demonstrating to critical legislators and the public that tax money budgeted to foreign aid does achieve something. At the ReCom...
Webcasts from the event 9:00-10:40 Lena Ingelstam 2:50 Finn Tarp 11:42 Miguel Niño-Zarazúa 23:53 Arnab Acharya, Zulfiqar Bhutta and PB Anand 32:00 11:00-13:00 Bob Baulch, Katharina Michaelowa and Abby Riddell 13:32 Elizabeth Kristjansson, Armando...