Making Things Simpler?
Harmonizing Aid Delivery in the Cook Islands
Published on 1. December 2008
36 pages
978-92-9257-209-9 (ISBN)
Description
A 2001 report by the Australian Agency for International Development and the New Zealand Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Trade marked the beginning of efforts by both governments to increase their emphasis on aid harmonization in the Pacific. This was followed by a decision to pilot a cofunded program in the Cook Islands which is the subject of this case study. The case is presented through the eyes of Garth Henderson, the senior Cook Islands official responsible for aid management. This report describes how the Cook Islands government, through the aid harmonization process, enhanced its capacity for aid management while strengthening national ownership and forging a shared sense of direction by all stakeholders.
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Acronyms
- Foreword
- Background
- Cook Islands-Basic Facts
- Context
- The Donor Angle
- The Case
- Cook Islands Embraces Aid Harmonization
- Enabling Environment?
- Underlying Currents Supporting the Arrangement
- Translating the Arrangement into Real Work
- Milestones
- Monitoring and Evaluation: A Multilevel Approach
- Lessons Learned and Reflections
- Have Harmonization Objectives Been Achieved?
- Ignoring the "Soft" Side of Capacity Development
- Capacity to Own the Program
- Strength of New Zealand-Cook Islands Relations
- Singing in Tune
- Harmonization, a "Fad"
- References
