Won’t a ranking be a disincentive to new donors?
Like more established donor governments, new and non-traditional donors want to do their best when it comes to providing aid effectively. Rather than act as a disincentive, the HRI may actually help new donors to better understand what good practice is and how it can be measured and assessed. This may help new donors to subsequently avoid many of the problems and issues in providing aid effectively that donors themselves identified when the GHD principles were drafted. In fact, this year the HRI has systematically begun to gather information on new and non-traditional donors, as well as specific examples of good and poor donor practices in different crisis settings. This information can be a valuable, practical tool to help all donors to better understand what works and what doesn’t work in terms of effective donor practice.
