Comments on: Barack Obama on US Aid http://www.owen.org/blog/694 Thoughts from Owen in Africa Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:02:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Barack Obama will double US Aid « :: Pakistani Economist :: http://www.owen.org/blog/694/comment-page-1#comment-2518 Barack Obama will double US Aid « :: Pakistani Economist :: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 11:26:20 +0000 http://www.owen.org/blog/694#comment-2518 [...] Owen, Steve Radelet also writes about it at the CGD) Source: World Bank Poverty and Growth [...] [...] Owen, Steve Radelet also writes about it at the CGD) Source: World Bank Poverty and Growth [...]

]]> By: MattA http://www.owen.org/blog/694/comment-page-1#comment-2517 MattA Fri, 27 Apr 2007 07:32:32 +0000 http://www.owen.org/blog/694#comment-2517 Hi Owen, Interesting comment from Barack and one we are familiar with in the UK. With regard to this trend in massively upscaling funding, what would your response be (as a DFID staffer) to the comment in yesterdays International Development Commitee Report on Water and Sanitation which says, 'DFID has no strategy in place to match its human resources to its expanding financial resources for the sanitation and water sectors. This reflecst a worrying tendancy within the department, on which we have commented before, to focus on financial inputs at the expense of determining linked human resource requirements to achieve the desired outcomes.' <em>Owen replies: Thanks. This blog is not about to become an official forum for DFID staff to respond to comments and advice from the Parliamentary Select Committee that focuses on our work, so I am going to resist the temptation to respond to your question directly. But in general, I agree that there is too much political focus right across the development system on inputs and not enough on outputs and outcomes.</em> Hi Owen,
Interesting comment from Barack and one we are familiar with in the UK. With regard to this trend in massively upscaling funding, what would your response be (as a DFID staffer) to the comment in yesterdays International Development Commitee Report on Water and Sanitation which says, ‘DFID has no strategy in place to match its human resources to its expanding financial resources for the sanitation and water sectors. This reflecst a worrying tendancy within the department, on which we have commented before, to focus on financial inputs at the expense of determining linked human resource requirements to achieve the desired outcomes.’

Owen replies: Thanks. This blog is not about to become an official forum for DFID staff to respond to comments and advice from the Parliamentary Select Committee that focuses on our work, so I am going to resist the temptation to respond to your question directly. But in general, I agree that there is too much political focus right across the development system on inputs and not enough on outputs and outcomes.

]]> By: Poverty and Growth Blog http://www.owen.org/blog/694/comment-page-1#comment-2519 Poverty and Growth Blog Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:00:29 +0000 http://www.owen.org/blog/694#comment-2519 <strong>Barack Obama will double US Aid...</strong> In a speech to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Barack Obama pledged to double US aid by 2012, if elected President. For the last twenty years, U.S. foreign aid funding has done little more than keep pace with inflation.  Doubling our f... Barack Obama will double US Aid…

In a speech to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Barack Obama pledged to double US aid by 2012, if elected President. For the last twenty years, U.S. foreign aid funding has done little more than keep pace with inflation.  Doubling our f…

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