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About Roger C Riddell

Roger Riddell, former International Director of Christian Aid, is a Non-Executive Director of Oxford Policy Management, a Principal of The Policy Practice, and since 2007, a member of the Independent Advisory Committee on Development Impact (IACDI) set up by the UK’s Department for International Development. His most recent book Does Foreign Aid Really Work? was published in 2008 (OUP).

Articles by Roger C Riddell

Thursday 28th January

Haiti: we've given the aid but will it work?

Roger C Riddell, 28 January 2010

Is the aid effort in Haiti ineffective and wasteful? If so, is this typical of the way the world responds to disasters? It may take decades to get Haiti on its feet.

Friday 20th November

Is aid working? Is this the right question to be asking?

Roger C Riddell, 20 November 2009

“Is it working?” is the question most commonly asked of aid. In response, aid agencies feed the public a diet of overwhelmingly “good news stories” to convince them that it is working. This diverts attention from the central question: how to reduce the major gap between what aid currently does and what it could achieve. How donors provide aid is a major cause of aid’s current ineffectiveness.