Won’t it be difficult and expensive for the country to gather detailed information required for the reporting and verifying progress?
Possibly, but this is a necessary investment for obtaining detailed and good quality information about outcomes regardless of how the program is financed. Information about outcomes would be of great use to recipient country policymakers and of greater utility for management decisions than the information currently gathered to monitor and evaluate traditional project aid. The verification process paid for by funders is not necessarily any more expensive than the monitoring and evaluation that is typically done for other kinds of foreign assistance.
