Everyone's talking about it - Cash on Delivery Aid (COD Aid)

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The RBF for Health feature story this week explores Cash on Delivery Aid (COD Aid), a new(ish) approach that links aid directly to outcomes. The idea is startlingly simple (and some think risky): donors pay a fixed, incremental sum for verified outcomes and recipient governments decide how to achieve the outcomes and how to spend the reward.

We thought it'd be helpful to provide a few links to more information and opinions on the subject of COD:
- Thoughts on COD from Nicholas Kristof, New York Times in his blog post A New Approach to Aid

- From Bill Savedoff and Nancy Birdsall at Center for Global Development - What Is the Counterfactual for COD Aid?

- Duncan Green, Head of Research for Oxfam GB writes about the EC version in his blog Cash on Delivery: a big new aid idea? Actually, the EC’s been doing it for years!