Author: Admin |
9:22 AM |
|
FYI
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 15:19:41 -0600
From: info@devex.com
To: georgeokello_8@hotmail.com
Subject: EG4PR and the difficult conversation about cost
| To ensure delivery to your inbox, please add info@devex.com to your address book. |  QUOTABLE | | "Quite simply, if 1 percent of the budget was redirected back to domestic issues in a donor country, it would only be a drop in the bucket — but invested in the developing world, it is helping to spur historic progress and prosperity." |  - Joe Cerrell, managing director for global policy and advocacy at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Be the first to see and share each week's Quotable by liking Devex on Facebook
| | | DEVELOPMENT BUZZ |
 The Economic Growth for Poverty Reduction procurement vehicle — or EG4PR — was supposed to generate crucial savings for the U.S. Agency for International Development. Instead — in a turn of events that's not not unique to the United States — it disintegrated into a drawn-out and costly battle between the donor and some of its partners over what is a reasonable way to balance quality programming with a need to, well, cut costs.
USAID faces a hostile and perennially uncertain budget environment, and the rhetoric often goes that large U.S. contractors and NGOs exact high prices for goods and services that are first and foremost intended to generate development impacts, not profits.
An increased focus on cost in proposals is hardly unique to USAID. Bilateral and multilateral donors around the globe are facing pressure from appropriators and even their own their boards of directors and leadership to get more development bang for the taxpayers' buck. But there seems to be a growing fear within the implementer community that donors are starting to pay too high a premium on costs versus value.
| |  The world has made significant gains in reducing under-5 deaths. In fact, more than a handful of what the World Bank calls least-developed countries have exceeded the Millennium Development Goal for child health.
| | | PHOTO OF THE WEEK | A first
| 
The motto says "Excellence in Hope" for this potentially self-sustaining model. What is it?
Check out the photo here and share your own with us on Facebook.
| | | #INNOV8AID |
 Prizes await innovators with ideas on low-cost latrine lighting or an economical way to manage solid wastes in emergency camps.
| | | VUVUZELA |  Last week, the U.S. Agency for International Development launched its new mission statement. And as we've noted here at Devex, it reflects many of today's prominent themes in international cooperation, such as resilience and partnership. Does this change matter? Yes, Devex Global Development Reporter Michael Igoe argued, particularly to the thousands of USAID staff members. "USAID is getting closer to giving a name and unique mission to the type of professional who forges partnerships that can ease poverty and help build democratic institutions under those challenging conditions," Igoe wrote in last week's Development Buzz column. "USAID's mission is still messy. But now the professionals tasked with carrying it out can better explain, and defend, what they've signed up for." What did the Devex community say? Read more and join the conversation! | | | | | | |
To ensure delivery to your inbox, please add info@devex.com to your address book.
Not interested? Unsubscribe now. Manage your subscription to Devex email notifications here.
0 comments:
Post a Comment