eprintid: 14372
rev_number: 14
eprint_status: archive
userid: 2744
dir: disk0/00/01/43/72
datestamp: 2013-01-24 10:39:33
lastmod: 2015-04-22 13:57:48
status_changed: 2013-01-24 10:39:33
type: workingPaper
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Öhler, Hannes
title: Do Aid Donors Coordinate Within Recipient Countries?
subjects: 330
divisions: 181000
keywords: donor coordination, bilateral donors, multilateral donors, international NGOs, national NGOs, Cambodia 
abstract: Aid fragmentation and a lack of donor coordination  have been widely recognized as principal problems impairing the effectiveness of aid. In particular, the importance of within-country division of labor has been highlighted in recent years. At the same time, rigorous quantitative 
analyses of within-country aid coordination are largely missing. Taking the whole donor pool(including NGOs) within an aid recipient country into account, we examine the coordination behavior of donors across regions and sectors. Our  results indicate a modest degree of donor coordination within Cambodia, even after the 2005 Paris Declaration. In particular, the coordination efforts among bilateral donors seem rather limited, suggesting that their political and 
economic interests prevent closer coordination. With respect to the behavior of NGOs, we find them to be mainly active in the same regions and sectors as official donors, creating coordination problems between the two groups of donors. In addition, NGOs appear to cluster in the regional-sectoral space although there seems to be some sort of coordination among them. 
 
date: 2013-01
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00014372
schriftenreihe_cluster_id: sr-3
schriftenreihe_order: 0539
ppn_swb: 1651989443
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-143724
language: eng
bibsort: OHLERHANNEDOAIDDONOR201301
full_text_status: public
series: Discussion Paper Series / University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics
volume: 0539
pages: 31
citation:   Öhler, Hannes  (2013) Do Aid Donors Coordinate Within Recipient Countries?  [Working paper]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/14372/1/Oehler_2013_dp539.pdf