What Does It Mean for Agencies to Be Effective in a Changing Development Landscape? 2025.1 / Rachael Calleja, Sara Casadevall Bellés, and Beata Cichocka

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Introduction
  A note on terminology and scope
What is agency effectiveness, and why does it matter?
Three pressures on agency effectiveness in the SDG era
  Pressures on why development agencies act
  Pressures on what development agencies do
  Pressures on how development agencies work
Five dimensions of agency effectiveness
  Agency effectiveness as allocation
  Agency effectiveness as compliance with global principles
  Agency effectiveness as cost-efficiency
  Agency effectiveness as organisational design
  Agency effectiveness as adaptive management
The future of development agency effectiveness: Three key considerations
  Priorities
  Structures
  Capabilities
Conclusion
References