Abstract
Billions of dollars continue to be provided in foreign aid each year. However, few scholarly studies have examined whether the outcomes from foreign aid interventions are sustained after donor funding has ceased. This paper examines current approaches to assessing this issue before arguing that a realist evaluation approach is ideally suited to understand why and how sustained outcomes are—or are not—achieved. It contributes to the existing literature by presenting three new frameworks to examine the sustainability of outcomes in international development as well as some Context-Mechanism-Outcome statements. Implications for governments, communities, households and donor/implementing organisations are discussed.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 21-42 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| Journal | Journal of International Development |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Early online date | 9 May 2022 |
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| Publication status | Published - Jan 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The authors are grateful for feedback and comments from Guy Calvert-Lee, Sue Cant, Anna Mackintosh, Camilla Symes and Holta Trandafili at World Vision as well as to Kim Grey and Keren Winterford, the participants in the original studies and the co-authors of study reports. Open access publishing facilitated by RMIT University, as part of the Wiley - RMIT University agreement via the Council of Australian University Librarians.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Authors. Journal of International Development published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
