Quality of Official Development Assistance Assessment, March 18, 2011

The Quality of Official Development Assistance (QuODA) report was created to address donors’ interests in trying to measure bilateral and multilateral agency effectiveness. The QuODA report suggests that there is a demand for such information, stemming from perhaps budgetary and accountability pressures. Such an inference is consistent with the statements made in Chappell’s article.

The report seeks to address questions such as “how much of bilateral and multilateral agencies’ funds actually reach recipient countries?” To answer this question, the Brookings Institution constructed four pillars of aid quality, built up from 30 separate aid indicators. The purpose of the report is not to rank countries and agencies on some overall abstract notion of aid quality, but to identify their strengths and weaknesses via indicators. The report includes an assessment 23 countries that are members of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

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