Results-based Approaches in Development Cooperation

Results-based Approaches in Development Cooperation

There is growing interest to better link funding to results. Development organisations are designing and implementing new approaches to strengthen the focus on results. Results-based approaches promise to deliver more effective aid and better demonstrate the impact that development financing is making. The key characteristic of results-based approaches is a contract between funder and recipient that defines incentives to achieve measureable results.

A small range of results-based approaches exists and an increasing number of development actors designs and implements results-based approaches. The current debate on results-based approaches is helpful by encouraging a systematic discussion on results, but sufficient practical experience is still lacking. Also, there are open questions regarding the conceptual underpinnings of results-based approaches. Overall, it is unclear whether potential disadvantages outweigh potential benefits.

The German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) conducts research on the theoretical foundations of results-based approaches and analyses practical experiences with implementing results-based approaches. This special presents the work of IDOS on results-based approaches.

Team

Janus, Heiner
Keijzer, Niels
Klingebiel, Stephan

Publications

Are results-based approaches key to implementing the 2030 Agenda in development cooperation?
Janus, Heiner / Stephan Klingebiel (2016)
The Current Column of 9 May 2016

Boosting or hindering aid effectiveness? An assessment of systems for measuring donor agency results
Holzapfel, Sarah (2016)
in: Public Administration and Development 36 (1), 3-19

Sustainable Development Goals: Pick and choose - or integration at last?
Heiner, Janus / Sarah Holzapfel (2016)
The Current Column of 1 February 2016

Big results now? Emerging lessons from results-based aid in Tanzania
Janus, Heiner / Niels Keijzer (2015)
Discussion Paper 4/2015

Improving education outcomes by linking payments to results: an assessment of disbursement-linked indicators in five results-based approaches
Holzapfel, Sarah / Heiner Janus
Discussion Paper 2/2015

Linking results-based aid and capacity development support: conceptual and practical challenges
Keijzer, Niels / Heiner Janus
Discussion Paper 25/2014

Results-based aid: potential and limits of an innovative modality in development cooperation
Klingebiel, Stephan / Heiner Janus (2014)
published on International Development Policy

The role of indicators in development cooperation: an overview study with a special focus on the use of key and standard indicators
Holzapfel, Sarah (2014)
Studies 81

Presenting Results in Development Cooperation: Risks and Limitations
Holzapfel, Sarah (2014)
Briefing Paper 04/2014

„Beyond Aid“ und die Zukunft der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
Janus, Heiner / Stephan Klingebiel / Sebastian Paulo (2014)
Analysen und Stellungnahmen 7/2014

Wie soll Entwicklungszusammenarbeit gestaltet werden? Die Globale Partnerschaft und das Development Cooperation Forum
Janus, Heiner / Stephan Klingebiel / Timo Casjen Mahn (2014)
Analysen und Stellungnahmen 5/2014

Darstellung von Ergebnissen in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit: Risiken und Grenzen
Holzapfel, Sarah (2014)
Analysen und Stellungnahmen 4/2014

Real innovation or second-best solution? First experiences from results-based aid for fiscal decentralisation in Ghana and Tanzania
Janus, Heiner(2014)
Discussion Paper 3/2014

Results-based approaches und Results-Based Aid (RBA): ein Diskussionspapier
Janus, Heiner / Stephan Klingebiel (2013)

Results-based financing: evidence from performance-based financing in the health sector
Grittner, Amanda Melina (2013)
Discussion Paper 6/2013

Results-based approaches to aid
Klingebiel, Stephan (2013)
NAI Forum, Nordic Africa Development Policy Forum, 11.01.2013

Results-Based Aid (RBA): new aid approaches, limitations and the application to promote good governance
Klingebiel, Stephan (2012)
Discussion Paper 14/2012

Fungibility and the choice of aid modalities: the red herring revisited
Leiderer, Stefan (2012)
UNU-WIDER (Working Paper 2012/68)

Ergebnisbasierte EZ-Ansätze: Definitionen, Kriterien und Konzepte: ein Diskussionspapier
Klingebiel, Stephan (2012)
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Results based aid: a new label or potential for more impact?
Klingebiel, Stephan (2012)
in: Kenneth Kind (ed.), Value for money in international education; a new World of results, impacts and outcomes (NORRAG News 47, April 2012, Pencaitland)

Results based aid: limitations of new approaches
Klingebiel, Stephan (2011)
Briefing Paper 17/2011

Ergebnisbasierte Entwicklungszusammenarbeit: Grenzen neuer Ansätze
Klingebiel, Stephan (2011)
Analysen und Stellungnahmen 15/2011

Events

Workshop
Technical workshop on results-based funding
Paris, 19 and 20 May 2014

Workshop
Workshop on results-based approaches to development
Tunis, 16 April 2013

Workshop
Research Workshop on Results-based approaches to aid: the research agenda ahead
Bonn, 6 December 2012

Workshop
Workshop on implementing Cash on Delivery Aid and other outcome-oriented approaches
Bonn, 18-19 April 2012

Highlight

Results-based approaches in agriculture: what is the potential?
Janus, Heiner / Sarah Holzapfel (2016)
Discussion Paper 25/2016

Highlight

Big results now? Emerging lessons from results-based aid in Tanzania
Janus, Heiner / Niels Keijzer (2015)
Discussion Paper 4/2015

Highlight

Results-based aid: potential and limits of an innovative modality in development cooperation
Klingebiel, Stephan / Heiner Janus (2014)
published on International Development Policy, 6.1.2014