What are the goals of a COD Aid program and who chooses them?
COD Aid could be applied to any goal for which a verifiable incremental measure of progress can be identified and which is agreeable to a funder and recipient. The Millennium Development Goals present a menu of such objectives, including universal primary school completion, reducing child and maternal mortality, and preventing the spread of HIV and malaria. Funders and recipients could negotiate the progress measures for a COD Aid contract. Alternatively, funders could choose a goal and offer it to countries that could then assess whether they think it would serve their interests to participate.
