Download or read book Strategic Management in Foreign Aid Agencies written by Dennis A. Rondinelli and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book AID Management Strategic Management Can Help AID Face Current and Future Challenges written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foreign Assistance written by DIANE Publishing Company and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1995-06 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides U. S. decision makers information about how 6 other bilateral donors (Canada, Germany, Japan, Sweden, and the U.K.) and the European Union manage their foreign aid programs. Deals with issues of the difficulty of planning in an uncertain environment, common structural dilemmas in foreign aid programs and common management weaknesses. 5 figures and tables.
Download or read book Foreign Assistance written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foreign Assistance written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strategic Management in International Aid Organizations written by Maude Montani and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foreign Assistance written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAO discussed management problems at the Agency for International Development (AID) and whether it is adequately meeting its foreign economic assistance responsibilities. GAO found that: (1) the AID management approach and organizational capacity have not kept up with the increasingly diffuse scope of the foreign assistance program and the expanding number of countries in which AID operates; (2) AID has expanded its operations; (3) some small AID programs have had such a negligible effect on a country's development that the effect may not justify AID in-country presence; (4) studies have shown that AID has not effectively managed, and has not been held accountable for achieving results from, a diffuse foreign assistance program; (5) opening new overseas offices has further burdened the AID operating expense budget; (6) the fragmentation of the foreign assistance program is largely due to a lack of consensus among the many groups that are concerned with the AID mission or have a stake in its services and resources; (7) congressional involvement has hampered AID ability to use foreign aid as leverage to secure needed economic reforms and target assistance to the most pressing development needs of recipient countries; (8) AID has not been able to fully implement the strategic management concepts that would enable it to better focus and concentrate its limited resources; (9) AID maintains that its decentralized organizational structure and management approach are appropriate given the widely varying development and assistance needs of the numerous countries in which it operates; and (10) lack of management controls has impaired AID program effectiveness.
Download or read book Strategic Management And Policy Issues Of Ngos written by O.P. Goel and published by Gyan Publishing House. This book was released on 2004 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book, as its title suggests, deals with management related policy-issues of NGOs. NGOs today have a great importance and carry huge responsibilities in the global society. Their role in sustainable development of society is crucial. Today good governance needs support of NGOs. Different NGOs have different mission and their management challenges need different kind of approach. Another issues of significance attached with functioning of NGOs is related to finances. Donors are funding agencies are liberal in their approach but policies need to focus on the fact that funds are channeled in the direction and their utilisation brings in the benefits to those for whom they are mentioned. All these issues from the nucleus of this work. The book is aimed at being useful to NGOs, policy-planners, social activist and others concerned with social work.
Download or read book Organizing U S Foreign Aid written by Carol Lancaster and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005-07-08 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overwhelmed by a proliferation of foreign aid programs, the U.S. government is attempting to reorganize itself in order to manage them more effectively. This raises several critical issues that will shape U.S. foreign aid policy for the 21st century: Should existing foreign aid agencies be combined into a cabinet-level agency, ensuring a voice for development concerns during policy discussions, or should they be placed in the State Department to strengthen their foreign policy focus? How should aid agencies manage the planning, implementation, and evaluation of their aid? Is "managing for results" as currently practiced appropriate for what is often a highly experimental task of bringing about beneficial changes in foreign countries? How should the U.S. government educate its citizens on the issues of foreign aid and development as expenditures rise and as the ambitious goals driving aid—including nation building—expand? In Organ izing Foreign Aid, Carol Lancaster and Ann Van Dusen call for a fundamental reorganization of U.S. aid programs. They recommend a major increase in efforts at development education. The authors also provide insights into how other donor governments have dealt with these challenges. With the future of U.S. foreign aid policy at stake, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in development, foreign aid, and the organization of government programs in these areas.
Download or read book Navigation by Judgment written by Dan Honig and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreign aid organizations collectively spend hundreds of billions of dollars annually, with mixed results. Part of the problem in these endeavors lies in their execution. When should foreign aid organizations empower actors on the front lines of delivery to guide aid interventions, and when should distant headquarters lead? In Navigation by Judgment, Dan Honig argues that high-quality implementation of foreign aid programs often requires contextual information that cannot be seen by those in distant headquarters. Tight controls and a focus on reaching pre-set measurable targets often prevent front-line workers from using skill, local knowledge, and creativity to solve problems in ways that maximize the impact of foreign aid. Drawing on a novel database of over 14,000 discrete development projects across nine aid agencies and eight paired case studies of development projects, Honig concludes that aid agencies will often benefit from giving field agents the authority to use their own judgments to guide aid delivery. This "navigation by judgment" is particularly valuable when environments are unpredictable and when accomplishing an aid program's goals is hard to accurately measure. Highlighting a crucial obstacle for effective global aid, Navigation by Judgment shows that the management of aid projects matters for aid effectiveness.
Download or read book Blueprint for Development written by United States. Agency for International Development and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book AID Management written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aid Management written by United States. General Accounting Office. National Security and International Affairs Division and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foreign Assistance written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAO discussed the Agency for International Development's (AID) management problems. GAO noted that AID: (1) has such serious, persistent accountability and control problems as limited monitoring of field operations, a lack of standard accountability requirements for overseas missions, and financial and information management system weaknesses, that make its programs vulnerable to fraud, waste, and abuse; (2) increasingly relies on contractors and other third parties to deliver economic assistance, but has only limited ability to ensure assistance delivery, control, and accountability; (3) emphasizes the process of programming foreign assistance, rather than program effectiveness; (4) has not clearly defined responsibilities, and various headquarters offices perform overlapping duties; (5) lacks a work-force planning system, and its work force lacks the skills required to meet its current needs; (6) financial management systems can not match disbursements with outstanding obligations or produce auditable financial statements; (7) information resources management systems do not support decisionmaking and control; (8) announced an initiative to correct some of the key problems, but did not define a comprehensive strategic management plan; (9) lacks a process for prioritizing programs or for linking planning and goal-setting to strategies, budget, and accountability; and (10) has established working groups to solve key management problems, but still lacks a clearly articulated strategic direction.
Download or read book Delivering Aid Differently written by Wolfgang Fengler and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a new reality of aid. Gone is the traditional bilateral relationship, the old-fashioned mode of delivering aid, and the perception of the third world as a homogenous block of poor countries in the south. Delivering Aid Differently describes the new realities of a $200 billion aid industry that has overtaken this traditional model of development assistance. As the title suggests, aid must now be delivered differently. Here, case study authors consider the results of aid in their own countries, highlighting field-based lessons on how aid works on the ground, while focusing on problems in current aid delivery and on promising approaches to resolving these problems. Contributors include Cut Dian Agustina (World Bank), Getnet Alemu (College of Development Studies, Addis Ababa University), Rustam Aminjanov (NAMO Consulting), Ek Chanboreth and Sok Hach (Economic Institute of Cambodia), Firuz Kataev and Matin Kholmatov (NAMO Consulting), Johannes F. Linn (Wolfensohn Center for Development at Brookings), Abdul Malik (World Bank, South Asia), Harry Masyrafah and Jock M. J. A. McKeon (World Bank, Aceh), Francis M. Mwega (Department of Economics, University of Nairobi), Rebecca Winthrop (Center for Universal Education at Brookings), Ahmad Zaki Fahmi (World Bank)
Download or read book Agencies in Foreign Aid written by Goran Hyden and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-06-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In contrast to the bulk of the literature on foreign aid, which deals with it as an instrument of foreign policy or focuses on problems of implementation, this book examines the role of the aid agencies themselves, from a recipient's perspective, and provides longitudinal as well as comparative analysis. The principal aid agencies of China, Sweden and the United States began their operations in Tanzania simultaneously in the early 1960s but from very different ideological premises. Nonetheless, they all fell into operational traps that have limited the effectiveness of their contributions to Tanzanian development. The editors draw lessons about how foreign aid, if it is going to continue, needs to be reformed at the agency level.
Download or read book Assessing Aid written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessing Aid determines that the effectiveness of aid is not decided by the amount received but rather the institutional and policy environment into which it is accepted. It examines how development assistance can be more effective at reducing global poverty and gives five mainrecommendations for making aid more effective: targeting financial aid to poor countries with good policies and strong economic management; providing policy-based aid to demonstrated reformers; using simpler instruments to transfer resources to countries with sound management; focusing projects oncreating and transmitting knowledge and capacity; and rethinking the internal incentives of aid agencies.
