Assessing the Impact of Foreign Aid

Viktor Jakupec is Honorary Professor of Education at Deakin University. He also holds a professorship at Potsdam University, Germany. He held academic positions at University of Technology, Sydney, University of South Australia, Queensland University of Technology and Deakin University. His research over the last 3 years has focused on Impact Assessment within a context of Official Development Assistance and Political Economy Analysis for Official Development Assistance projects and programmes.He worked as an international consultant for World Bank, Asian Development Bank, International Financial Corporation, Millennium Challenge Corporation and AusAID funded projects in Bangladesh, PR China, Georgia, Jordan, Kyrgyz Republic, Maldives, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam. Viktor Jakupec has produced a range of ODA project design and project implementation reports, strategic plans. He has advised on implementation of IA and has undertaken IA and other associated evaluations within the education and social sectors in developing countries. Prof. Jakupec is: Member, Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (Academy of Sciences); Member, International Society for Development and Sustainability; Member, Arbeitskreis für Internationale Politische Ökonomie. Max Kelly is Senior Lecturer in International and Community Development Studies at Deakin University, Australia. Dr. Kelly’s areas of expertise include development policy and practice, with particular emphasis on, social development, livelihoods, food security, agriculture, community participation and community engagement, gender, and natural resource management. She previously worked at RMIT University, Melbourne. Her recent research focuses on Impact Assessment in development policy and practice, Political Economy Analysis of ODA, civil society in post conflict settings, and Organizational and social networks in post conflict settings. She has experience in Malawi, Uganda, Timor Leste, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu.

• Official Development Assistance and Impact Assessment – Theoretical and Practical Frameworks. Viktor Jakupec & Max KellyConceptualising Impact Assessment in Foreign Aid. Max KellyEconomic Development Paradigms and the Persistence of the Neoliberal Agenda. John McKayAid for Trade: A Critical Analysis. Viktor JakupecThe Rhetoric and Reality of Results and Impact Assessment in Donor Agencies: a Practitioners’ Perspective. Simon Milligan, Steve Bertram, & Alwyn Chilver Beyond Aid Distribution: Aid effectiveness, Neoliberal and Neostructural Reforms in Pacific Island Countries. Alec Thornton & Amerita Ravuvu Impact assessment in Social Sector Development: Regulatory Impact Assessment. Viktor Jakupec & Max KellyCan We Assess the Overall Impact of Development Agencies? The Example of Corporate Results Frameworks in Multilateral Development Banks. Marc CohenAssessing the Impact of Knowledge on Development Partners. William Loxley From Evidence to Action: Stakeholder Coordination as Determinant of Evaluation Use. Mateusz PucilowskiInside the Black Box: Modelling the Inner Workings of Social Development Programs. Sebastian Lemire & Gordon FreerImpact Assessment and Official Development Assistance: Ethnographic Assessment of the World Bank’s Community-Based Rural Development Projects in Ghana. Kwadwo Adusei-A & Peter Hancock Finding Balance: Improving Monitoring to Improve Impact Assessments of Development Programmes. Donna LoveridgeImpact Assessment in Practice: Case Study of Save the Children in the Asian Region. Veronica Bell & Yasamin AlttahirThe Non-Governmental Development Sector and Impact Assessment: From Theory to Practice.Jonathan MakuwireImpact Assessment: From Theory to Practice. Viktor Jakupec & Max Kelly

"The book provides a fresh look into one of the most important unfinished agendas of foreign aid, i.e., the aid effectiveness agenda. It combines theoretical and practical contributions to propose new ways of thinking about the evaluation of the impact of aid, from its conceptualization to its implementation. It convincingly argues for the centrality of impact assessment in development programmes and it proposes reforms to ensure that such assessment truly contributes to making foreign aid an effective tool to improve lives in developing countries. The messages in the book should provide relevant food for thought for aid practioners, policy-makers, and academics alike."  --Massimiliano Calì, World Bank