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Abstract:
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Malawi is one of seven case studies in a joint evaluation of General Budget Support (GBS). Each country study has contributed to the Synthesis Report of the evaluation, but is also intended to be a free-standing report of value to country stakeholders. Although the evaluation focuses on more recent Partnership GBS (known as PGBS), it covers the period from 1994–2004 in order to assess whether and how PGBS differs from other variants of budget support. This is not a comparative evaluation of different aid modalities, although the assessment of PGBS requires examination of its interactions with project aid and other forms of programme aid. The joint donor approach to evaluation recognises that PGBS has to be evaluated as a whole, since it is not possible to separate out the effects of different financial contributions. However, there is a special interest in comparing various different approaches to the design and management of PGBS. |