All aid approaches aim to achieve “results”. There are two aspects to the new debate on results: On the one hand, further improving the effectiveness of aid is important to the specialists, whereas on the other hand many donors (parliaments, the public etc.) continue to call for the justification of aid expenditures. This creates great pressure to give the most concrete evidence for the utility of aid budgets.
The current international discussion on results based approaches differs from debates so far in as much as in practice, aid has been frequently inputs and progress oriented. Results based aid (RBA) aims to identify outputs or outcomes that can be measured and quantified, i.e. results that can be directly linked to development activities.

Public Lecture:
Aid Effectiveness and Results-Based Aid
Talaat Abdel-Malek
Panel Discussion:

• Talaat Abdel-Malek, Chair, OECD/DAC Working Party on Aid Effectiveness & Ministry of International Co-operation, Cairo
• Franco Conzato, European Commission, Brussels
• Ronald Meyer, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Bonn
• William Savedoff, Centre for Global Development, Washington, D.C.

Introduction and Moderation: Stephan Klingebiel, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Bonn

Talaat Abdel-Malek, Chair, OECD/DAC Working Party on Aid Effectiveness