Budget support
Budget support is a form of quick-disbursing programme aid which is channelled directly to partner governments, uses local accounting systems and is linked to sector or national policies rather than specific project activities. It aims to promote pro-poor growth through encouraging fiscal stability and more equitable and efficient allocation and use of public funds. It offers the potential to address key cross-cutting issues such as public sector reform, gender, and the environment in ways that other aid instruments cannot, and also seeks to make maximum use of local capacity.
- Tough choices: investing in health for development
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This report is a synthesis of country experiences from three years of work, following the 2001 report of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health (CMH). The report identifies the main challenges to improving health investment planning and considers the experiences of 11 countries and one sub-regional initiative.
Recommended readings
- Poverty reduction budget support: a DFID policy paper
- ( Department for International Development, UK , 2004)
- The objective of this paper is to summarise DFID’s policy on the provision of Poverty Reduction Budget Support (PRBS). It aims to increase consistency in the implementation of poverty reduction budget...
- Aid and public expenditure: a guide
- ( M. Foster; A. Fozzard / Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure, ODI , 2000)
- Which way forward for development aid? Current practice tends towards a more comprehensive approach to funding. Will this be more effective than specific project aid? It could be, according to this st...
- Moving to budget support
- ( G. Justice / Development Assistance Committee, OECD , 2001)
- How can we support poverty reduction programmes while building the capacity of local institutions and promoting accountability? This policy document was written by the Development Assistance Committee...
- Budget support versus project aid: a theoretical appraisal
- ( T. Cordella; G. Dell’Arricia / International Monetary Fund , 2001)
- Foreign aid has had at best a mixed impact on developing countries. One reason for the frequent failures of aid to bring about pro-poor social programmes is that aid programmes do not always create th...
- General budget support evaluability study phase 1: final synthesis report
- ( A. Lawson; D. Booth; A. Harding; D. Hoole; F. Naschold / Oxford Policy Management , 2002)
- A significant proportion of bilateral aid is increasingly being committed to General Budget Support (GBS), but is this a suitable, effective and sustainable means of channelling international support ...
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- Review of aid requirements, availabilities and policies in Africa
- ( R. Liebenthal;S. Wangwe / UN Economic Commission for Africa , 2006)
- This background paper published by the Economic Commission for Africa, sets out the facts about aid to Africa and reviews the estimates of aid requirements and availabilities. The paper also discusses...
- Building coherent donor support for Rwandan health sector strategies towards MDG targets
- ( High-Level Forum on the Health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) , 2006)
- This Rwandan case study, produced in conjunction with the World Bank, was prepared for the High-Level Forum on the Health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It finds that the Rwandan government, thr...
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