Assessing the impact of foreign aid : value for money and aid for trade

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by  Jakupec

Assessing the Impact
of Foreign Aid
Value for Money and Aid for Trade
Edited by
Viktor Jakupec
Max Kelly
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List of Contributors
Kwadwo Adusei-Asante
School of Psychology and Social Science, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia, Australia
Yasamin Alttahir
Save the Children Australia, Australia
Veronica Bell
Save the Children Australia, Australia
Steve Bertram
Independent Consultant, UK
Alwyn Chilver
Growth, Private Sector & Livelihoods, GRM International, Canberra, Australia
Marc M. Cohen
Gordon Freer
Department of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand and Insight Strategies,
South Africa
Peter Hancock
School of Psychology and Social Science, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia, Australia
Viktor Jakupec
School of Education, Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University, Warrnambool, Australia
Max Kelly
School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University,
Warrnambool, Australia
Sebastian Lemire
University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
Donna Loveridge
William Loxley
Comparative Research Analyst, Philippines
Jonathan J. Makuwira
School of Economics, Development and Tourism, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University,
Port Elizabeth, South Africa
John McKay
Analysis International & Honorary Professor in Development Studies, Deakin University, Geelong,
Australia
Simon Milligan
Independent Consultant, UK
Mateusz Pucilowski
Impact Evaluation, Social Impact, Inc., Arlington, Virginia, USA
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Amerita Ravuvu
School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences, University of New South Wales,
Canberra, Australia
Alec Thornton
School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences, University of New South Wales,
Canberra, Australia
Author Biographies
KWADWO ADUSEI-ASANTE
Kwadwo Adusei-Asante is a lecturer and research scholar in the School of Psychology and Social
Science at Edith Cowan University. He holds a PhD from Edith Cowan University. He has over a
decade of international experience in policy research and program impact assessment in the public,
private, and not-for-profit sectors, spanning three countries: Australia, Ghana, and The Netherlands.
He has worked with several organizations in Western Australia in senior policy advice positions,
including the Public Sector Commission. Recent publications include journal articles (forthcoming)
Community-based programs in non-existent communities. African Studies Quarterly, 15(2), 2013;
When empowerment disempowers: the case of Ghanaian Traditional Chiefs and local government
officials. Ghana Journal of Development Studies, 9(2), 43–62 (with Hancock); and (2012) The State
of Ghana’s local government. The case of Assembly Members. Inkanyiso: Journal of Humanities
and Social Sciences, 4(2), 94–103. He has also written an extensive collection of Impact Assessment
research reports including most recently: “Planning public sector employees’ perceptions census:
conceptual issues, proposed models, strategic implementation plans and implications.” PSC, Perth.
WA. “Managing family employment conflict of interest in the public sector recruitment.” Public sector
Commission, Perth, WA. “The impact of ‘unequal marks technique’ on students’ group work and
presentation outputs” (O’malley and Gardiner), 2013 “DFAT asylum seekers’ Status Resolution Support
Services Program: implementation implications for faith-based community service organizations.”
YASAMIN ALTTAHIR
Yasamin Alttahir has over 5 years’ field experience managing projects in Africa, the Middle East, and
South East Asia. She has worked with grassroots NGOs in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leon, and
Cote D’Ivoire on UNICEF sponsored initiatives including maternal and early childhood health,
livelihoods, and capacity building among women affected by ongoing conflict, as well as advising
on financial and reporting procedures for major donor organizations. She also worked with refugee
programs in Iraq, Jordan, and Iran where she was based from 2007 to 2008.
VERONICA BELL
Veronica Bell is an experienced international development professional with extensive multisectoral
experience in East and Southern Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Central America, Mexico, and Haiti in both
emergency and development contexts. Her areas of expertise include program design, monitoring, and
evaluation, and impact measurement. She is responsible for strengthening Save the Children Australia’s
organizational capacity to deliver high-quality programs that achieve change through capacity building
and supporting the implementation of systems, policy, and practice to improve program performance
and accountability, and generate information to enable evidence-based programs with increased
reach and impact. She is a member of the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID)
Development Practice Committee (DPC).
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STEVE BERTRAM
Steve Bertram is a governance and natural resources consultant, based in Edinburgh, UK. He has
managed projects and provided consultancy services for 20 years in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia,
and South-East Asia. For the last 9 years, he has worked as a freelance consultant, specializing in
reviews, evaluations, and strategy development, including multidonor programming. Prior to that,
his long-term posts have included management of the ODA/DFID-financed Capacity Building
for Decentralized Development programme in Nigeria, management of the training and extension
component of a DANIDA-financed forestry programme in Nepal, and lecturing at the Department
of Forestry and Natural Resources of Edinburgh University in Scotland. He holds both an MSc in
Resource Management and an MBA.
ALWYN CHILVER
Alwyn Chilver is GRM International’s Director of Growth, Private Sector and Livelihoods, based in
Canberra, Australia. He has worked as a technical adviser to AusAID (now DFAT) and DFID. During his
7-year tenure at AusAID, he was Principal Advisor for Rural Development, where he helped promote
and establish a suite of innovative market development and private sector development programs in the
Asia-Pacific region. Before joining AusAID, he was a Socio-Economic Adviser on a DFID-financed
livestock services reform programme in Indonesia, and a Sustainable Livelihoods Adviser to a rural
poverty reduction programme for ethnic minorities in Vietnam. He also managed a portfolio of natural
resource management projects for DFID in Uganda. He holds a PhD on developing country innovation
systems and a Masters in Agricultural Economics.
MARC M. COHEN
Marc M. Cohen is an International Development Practitioner with over 20 years of experience in
Multilateral Development Agencies. Currently Manager, Quality Assurance and Results, at the African
Development Bank (AfDB), his responsibilities include establishing tools, processes, and mechanisms for
planning, tracking, and reporting operational results. Between 1998 and 2009, he worked for the Asian
Development Bank (AsDB), successively as Senior Education Specialist, Principal Results Management
Specialist, and Head for assistance in fragile and conflict-affected situations. With the Results Management
Unit of the AsDB, he led the design of the first corporate results measurement framework and launched
the series of development effectiveness reports. Between 1992 and 1998, he was Education Sector Analyst/
Social Development Expert with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO), conducting education sector work and coordinating some of the first inter-agency Human
Development Initiatives (HDI) financed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
He has operational experience in some 30 countries in transition and/or reconstruction in Asia, Africa,
and Eastern Europe. His main areas of expertise include integrated poverty reduction approaches; education
and human development; formulation of country partnership strategies; management of operational
portfolios; quality assurance systems; monitoring and evaluation of development interventions; aid
effectiveness and harmonization; organizational performance assessments, and results-based management.
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He graduated from the University of Oxford (MSc Development Economics), the Institut d’Etudes
Politiques de Paris (D.E.A. Economie Internationale), Paris-IX Dauphine University (D.E.S.S. Affaires
Internationales, Maîtrise de Gestion), and Paris-I Sorbonne University (Maîtrise de Science Politique).
GORDON FREER
Gordon Freer used to lecture full time at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg before he
was lured away, 15 years ago, to practice instead of preach. He continues to hold a part time lecturing
post in International Relations at the university where he continues to postulate on his ideals. These ideals
are tested to the extreme and tempered by reality in his socioeconomic development work for Insight
Strategies. A large portion of this time is spent on monitoring and evaluation and research including
private sector development, value chain, and local economic development. He is an established author
on South African foreign policy, and has written numerous media articles and conference papers. He has
also contributed to the authoring and publishing of Making Markets Work for the Poor: An Objective
and an Approach for Governments and Development Agencies and Habits of Highly Effective Countries.
PETER HANCOCK
Peter Hancock is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology and Social Science at Edith Cowan
University. He holds a PhD from Edith Cowan University and has 20 years of experience researching
and teaching international and community development studies at Deakin University, Curtin University,
and Edith Cowan University. He has worked on large international grants for AusAID, DFAT-Australia, and
for various other stakeholders in Australia and the Netherlands and Indonesia. He is currently the Principal
Investigator on a DFAT funded grant that examines social capital among women in rural Sri Lanka that
he has published widely. Selected recent publications include: Hancock et al. (2014). Women’s Economic
Empowerment and Formal Income: Sri Lankan Export Processing Zones (EPZs) and Their Impact on
Gender Perceptions of Empowerment. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift – Norwegian Journal of Geography;
Adusei-Asante and Hancock (2013). When Empowerment Disempowers: The Case of Ghana’s
Community-Based Rural Development Projects. Ghana Journal of Development Studies, 13 (9); Hancock
and Edirisinghe (2012). Inclusion and Empowerment of Export Processing Zone Workers in Sri Lanka:
Stakeholder Perceptions and Perspectives. Journal of Labour and Management in Development, 13 (2);
Hancock, Middleton, and Moore (2012). Gender, Globalisation and Empowerment: A Study of Women
who Work in Sri Lanka’s Export Processing Zones. Work, Organisation, Labour and Globalisation, 6 (1).
VIKTOR JAKUPEC
Viktor Jakupec is Honorary Professor of Education at Deakin University. He also holds a professorship
at Potsdam University, Germany. He held academic positions at University of Technology, Sydney,
University of South Australia, Queensland University of Technology, and Deakin University.
His research over the last 3 years has focused on Impact Assessment within a context of Official
Development Assistance and Political Economy Analysis for Official Development Assistance projects
and programmes.
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He worked as an international consultant for World Bank, Asian Development Bank, International
Financial Corporation, Millennium Challenge Corporation, and AusAID funded projects in Bangladesh,
PR China, Georgia, Jordan, Kyrgyz Republic, Maldives, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam. He has produced a
range of ODA project design and project implementation reports, and strategic plans. He has advised
on implementation of IA and has undertaken IA and other associated evaluations within the education
and social sectors in developing countries.
He is: Member, Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (Academy of Sciences); Member,
International Society for Development and Sustainability; Member, Arbeitskreis für Internationale
PolitischeÖkonomie.
MAX KELLY
Max Kelly is a Senior Lecturer in International and Community Development Studies at Deakin
University, Australia. Her main research areas are development policy and practice, with particular
emphasis on social development, livelihoods, food security, agriculture, community participation and
community engagement. She previously worked at RMIT University, Melbourne. Her recent research
focuses on Impact Assessment in development policy and practice, Political Economy Analysis of ODA,
civil society in postconflict settings, and farmer groups, Organizational and social networks in postconflict
settings. She has consulted and volunteered with a wide range of organizations, including international
NGOs, multilateral organizations, and government departments. She has experience in Malawi, Uganda,
Timor Leste, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu.
SEBASTIAN LEMIRE
Sebastian Lemire is a doctoral candidate in the Social Research Methods division at the University of
California, Los Angeles. He also serves as a Managing Editor for the American Educational Research
Journal – Social and Institutional Analysis. As a former evaluation consultant, he has gained first-hand
experience with the process of crafting and carrying out a broad range of evaluations. His area of interest
revolves around causal modeling and explanation, research quality appraisal, research synthesis, and
evaluation capacity building. He has published on these topics in the American Journal of Evaluation,
Evaluation, and the Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation.
DONNA LOVERIDGE
Donna Loveridge holds a PhD in programme evaluation and a masters degree in international
development from the University of Melbourne. She has extensive experience as a consultant for
international development organizations and programs, focusing on strategic planning, monitoring,
and evaluation. She works with public and private NGOs in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific and across
a range of sectors. Her publications include Theories of change: monitoring and evaluation capacity
development in the government of Tanzania, The University of Melbourne.
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WILLIAM LOXLEY
As a Social Science Research Scientist with a PhD from the University of Chicago (1979), the
author has over 30 years’ experience conducting research and evaluation worldwide. Selected
expertise and experience include research and evaluation in sociology and economics of education;
project design, management, implementation, and evaluation at all levels including projects such
as setting up the Maldives College of Higher Education; reorganizing the Open University, and
introducing computers to secondary schools in Sri Lanka; and providing 2,000 five-room Pakistani
Primary Girls schools along with science education labs and equipment in secondary schools
throughout the country. Evaluation experience includes examining secondary school academic and
vocational effects on school outcomes in Colombia and Tanzania for the World Bank; assessing
primary school effects in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, and Pakistan in South Asia for the Asian
Development Bank, as well as comparing educational outcomes in 29 additional countries around
the world; and assessing ICT readiness throughout Asia and the Pacific. Teaching research methods
at the Universities of Can-Tho, and Ho Chi Min Cities in Vietnam under the Fulbright Program;
UGM and IKIP universities in Indonesia with the Ford Foundation; Chicago inner-city teaching as a
certified public school teacher; and training classroom teachers with the Peace Corps in Mindanao,
the Philippines. Research and evaluation skills include all aspects of project design, management,
policy and evaluation; comparative survey research, and quantitative analysis employed in
technical assistance. Recent books include Smart World Dumb World: Developing Knowledge Rich
Economies; and Economies of Knowledge in a Smart World; both available as e-reading on I-books
Store or free download on Google+.
JONATHAN J. MAKUWIRA
Jonathan J. Makuwira is an Associate Professor in Development Studies at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan
University (NMMU), South Africa. Prior to joining NMMU, he was a Senior Lecturer in International
Development at The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University, Melbourne,
Australia where he taught courses in International Project Planning and Design; International Project
Management, Monitoring and Evaluation; International NGOs, Civil Society and Development; Aid,
Adjustment and Development; and Contemporary Africa. His academic career has seen him teach Peace
Studies at the University of New England, and Comparative Indigenous Studies at Central Queensland
University, both Australia. He has worked for the Ministry of Education in Malawi as a Primary,
Secondary and Teacher Educator before joining Malawi Institute of Education. In 1998, he joined The
Council for NGOs in Malawi (CONGOMA), as a Research Officer before going for his doctoral studies
in Australia. He is a Visiting Scholar at LUANAR, Department of Extension and Rural Sociology.
SIMON MILLIGAN
Simon Milligan is a freelance design, review, and evaluation specialist who has undertaken assignments
for AusAID/DFAT, DFID, IFAD, SDC, and the EC in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and South-East
Asia. He has worked as a Community Development Specialist on an EC-financed rehabilitation and
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reintegration programme in post-war Liberia and a State Programme Manager of a DFID-financed
governance programme in Nigeria. His most assignments have focused on measures to promote access
to markets and services. He is currently based in South-East Asia, where he is involved with performance
oversight and monitoring of a large donor-financed programme managed by GRM International. He
holds a PhD in livelihoods and conflict dynamics in West Africa. He has published several papers in
peer-reviewed journals.
MATEUSZ PUCILOWSKI
Mateusz Pucilowski is an evaluation methodologist working to improve development effectiveness
through the design, implementation, and utilization of policy-relevant research. He specializes in
integrating qualitative and quantitative methodologies and has field experience conducting impact
evaluations, performance evaluations, multicountry thematic assessments, and cost-effectiveness
studies. He has worked on 20+ evaluations for clients including USAID, MCC, DOS, IDB, foundations,
and NGOs. In addition to applied evaluation work, he has built evaluation capacity of hundreds of
donor and project staff through dozens of trainings worldwide. He has worked in 16 countries and holds
a Master’s Degree in International Development from the American University in Washington, DC.
AMERITA RAVUVU
Amerita Ravuvu is a PhD candidate in Geography at The University of New South Wales, Australia.
Her research areas are in climate change financing, development aid effectiveness, and grassroots
development for sustainable livelihoods and pro-poor growth in Melanesia and the wider South Pacific
region. She has been the recipient of the Best Undergraduate Paper Award in Political Geography
from the Association of American Geographers in 2009 for her paper titled Fiji’s Weak and Divided
State: The Rhetoric of Ethnic Polarization in the Political Process. She also contributed to a UNDP
publication, Financial Capability, Financial Competence and Wellbeing in Rural Fijian Households,
where she was involved in the finalization of the survey instrument and data collection. She has worked
with a number of institutions in Fiji including the Fiji Islands Trade & Investment Bureau, the Attorney
General’s Office, Future Forest Fiji Limited, the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, and the University
of the South Pacific.
ALEC THORNTON
Alec Thornton is a Senior Lecturer in Geography at The University of New South Wales, Australia.
His main research areas include community-based development, urban agriculture, and local food
networks for food security and social justice in Sub-Saharan Africa and the South Pacific. He has
published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles on these issues. His recent books are Beyond the
Metropolis: Urban Agriculture in South Africa (2012, Edwin Mellen Press) and Disaster Relief in the
Asia Pacific (2014, co-edited with Sakai et al., Routledge). He has contributed chapters to edited books,