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    Can a tool to map aid budgets be used to keep tabs on the SDGs?

    Costed implementation plans help countries map out their aid budgets and track progress. But they can also be used to keep governments accountable for their development goals, Devex has learned.

    By Molly Anders // 14 August 2015

    As aid groups search for ways to keep countries accountable for the ambitious sustainable development goals, some are pointing to existing mechanisms, like cost implementation plans, to guide aid budgets and track country progress.

    Costed implementation plans are planning and management tools — including cost estimates for multiyear action plans — for achieving development goals. Developed originally as a road map for countries as they budgeted for family planning and reproductive health targets, aid organizations like FHI 360 and Population Action International have most recently been both helping country governments develop their CIPs and using CIPs to guide their own advocacy strategies.

    In the case of FHI 360, which often guides governments in the creation of CIPs, the plans reveal financing gaps in a country’s aid strategy and provide a country-driven mechanism for suggesting improvements, according to Christine Lasway, a senior technical adviser at the U.S.-based nonprofit.

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      Molly Anders is a former U.K. correspondent for Devex. Based in London, she reports on development finance trends with a focus on British and European institutions. She is especially interested in evidence-based development and women’s economic empowerment, as well as innovative financing for the protection of migrants and refugees. Molly is a former Fulbright Scholar and studied Arabic in Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Morocco.

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