Roadmap for Official Development Assistance
How do we apply science to official development assistance?
What does the science say about how to implement official development assistance most effectively in the poorest countries in order to significantly reduce poverty and disease?
The Science of Implementation offers an evidence based approach to more effective implementation of official development assistance to address poverty and disease.
A key aspect of the SII’s Roadmap for Official Development Assistance is the notion of accompaniment. In the context of official international development assistance, accompaniment means supporting a society, its institutions and its citizens, on their own path toward eliminating poverty and disease. Like the aid effectiveness agenda, the accompaniment approach also calls for more resources to be invested directly in a country’s institutions and aligned with their national plans.
Guided by a pragmatic solidarity with the poor, the accompaniment approach seeks to listen, rather than provide solutions, not only to the goals and plans of citizens and their institutions, but also to the challenges that they face in their day-to-day operations and their perspectives on how to meet them.
Accompaniment draws on and reinforces other development principles, including the aid effectiveness and human rights agendas in calling for aid to focus on better access to services and jobs as defined by the government and its citizens in their own national plans.