Improving Canada’s Performance as a Bilateral Donor: Assessing the Past and Building for the Future
Struggling for Effectiveness: CIDA and Canadian Foreign Aid
Author: Stephen Brown, with a chapter by GEG's Nilima Gulrajani
Chapter Abstract
Improving Canada’s Performance as a Bilateral Donor: Assessing the Past and Building for the Future
In her chapter for this book, Nilima Gulrajani argues the Canadian International Development Agency must tackle domestic political challenges before donor governance reform can be effective.
Despite their widely divergent governance structures, both the British and Norwegian aid programmes outperform the Canadian programme on proxies for aid effectiveness. Norway and the UK’s success as donors derive from clearly articulating a political vision for development, supporting strong political champions and having relatively broad cross-party encouragement. Media coverage of the book is here.
Author Bio
Nilima Gulrajani is Senior Researcher at the Global Economic Governance Programme at the University of Oxford and Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She is an internationally recognized expert on foreign aid effectiveness and international development management.
