PDI-6 Project implementation units parallel to country structures (number) - Governance & partnership - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators



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Indicator 6 is a count of parallel project implementation units (PIUs), where “parallel” refers to having been created outside existing country institutional structures. The survey guidance makes a distinction between PIUs and executing agencies and gives three typical features of parallel PIUs: (a) They are accountable to the external funding agencies rather than to the country implementing agencies (ministries, departments, agencies, etc.). (b) Most of the professional staff are appointed by the donor. (c) The salary of PIU personnel often exceeds that of civil-service personnel. Interpretation of the survey question on this subject was controversial in a number of countries. It is not clear that within countries all donors applied the same criteria with the same degree of rigour, or that across countries the same standards were used. In a number of cases, the descriptive part of the survey return indicates that some donors applied a legalistic criterion of accountability to the formal executing agency, whereas the National Co-ordinator or other donors would have preferred a greater recognition of the substantive reality of accountability to the donor. It seems possible that some respondents allowed themselves to confuse the definitional question (is the unit “parallel”?) with the aid management question (is the parallelism justified in terms of the developmental benefits and costs?). Indicators 3 to 12 (but not Indictor 8) are drawn from the Survey on Monitoring the Paris Declaration for each respective year. Source: Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (www.oecd.org/dac/effectiveness/monitoring).
PDI-6 Project implementation units parallel to country structures (number) - Governance & partnership - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators (2007)

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Country

Value

1Democratic Republic of the Congo146
2Sudan105
3Burkina Faso102
4Mali60
5Benin58
6Ethiopia56
7Senegal55
8Uganda55
9Malawi51
10Madagascar48
11Morocco47
12Niger47
13Rwanda41
14Cameroon38
15Zambia34
16Egypt32
17Burundi29
18Ivory Coast29
19Tanzania28
20Mauritania27
21Mozambique26
22Nigeria23
23Kenya21
24Cape Verde18
25Chad17
26Ghana16
27Liberia16
28Togo13
29Central African Republic11
30Gabon5
31Sierra Leone2
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