National Progress and the Effectiveness of International Aid Linking Resources to Results Brian Hammond Acting Deputy Director, Development Co-operation Directorate, OECD June 2007 OECD World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Policy

Vietnam: Results at a Glance Inputs  Outputs  Outcomes  Results A template for linking resources to results

Issue  Countries and donors seek to show development results from their programmes  Different approaches, even in the same country  Overlapping reporting requirements of donors  Undermines capacity and confuses messages

Solution  A template owned by the country  Used with all donors  Report in a common format on shared objectives  Can be tuned for national goals and intermediate indicators  Can link summary to detailed sectoral or sub-national sheets  Supports Paris Declaration - mutual accountability and results reporting  Move from a focus on inputs to a focus on results

Example  Example - results and resources for Vietnam  Includes contribution from one donor (UK shown in yellow)  Facilitates discussions between Vietnam and the UK on its past and future aid programme  Could help UK reporting on its programme in Vietnam  Easy to show contribution of another bilateral or multilateral donor –change just two data panels  Data panels illustrative - easily customised to national goals and indicators

An Overview of Results on a page Resources at a glance—aid (top ten donors, aid by sector), FDI, remittances, population, GNI, growth, trade, public expenditure Inputs/resources—external resources from bilateral and multilateral donors —resources by sector from the national budget Aid Effectiveness—using the Paris Declaration indicators to show how effectively aid is being delivered Intermediate outputs—pupil/teacher ratio, child immunisation, etc.— that are measured more frequently than outcomes Outcomes/results—key MDG indicators for poverty, education, health and environment

Vietnam: Resources at a Glance

Vietnam: External Aid Resources

Vietnam: Total resources

Vietnam: Aid Effectiveness Indicators

Indicative intermediate Output indicators (customisable) Source: World Development Indicators (

Vietnam: Millennium Development Goals

Showing Relevance  Avoid direct link from spending on education to numbers of teachers and primary school enrolment  Instead show trends in national and external resources for education and see if number of teachers and enrolment are responding  Shared effort–donors making a contribution to national results  Template caters for future aid flows, improving predictability  Supports country Results and Resources Processes  Template supported by information systems:  Aid Management Platform (AMP) for aid flows and Paris Declaration Indicators  Links to public financial management/government accounting systems  DevInfo for MDG and Output indicators

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