Title: Harnessing the Power of Incentives: A Framework for Increasing Aid Effectiveness by Design
Abstract: Before it reaches the targeted beneficiary, a successful development assistance activity has to pass through the hands of many actors, including a slew of administrative and specialist individuals and committees within USAID, the implementing agent (which could be a government, private sector or non-profit agency), the recipient government political and administrative levels, and potential recipient country facilitators, to name but a few. Each of these actors has her own objectives and therefore idiosyncratic incentives, perhaps only incidental to those of USAID. On the other hand, many of these agents possess skills and information that could contribute to the success of the activity. How does one encourage these actors to enthusiastically provide their contributions without at the same time allow them to engage in potentially opportunistic behavior, which might derail the overall activity? Likewise, how can strategy, program, and activity designers at USAID not just avoid the pitfalls of these incentive conflicts and information asymmetries but explicitly harness them for the good of the intervention?
Publication Year: 2002
Publication Date: 2002-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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