Re-imagining Canadian development cooperation: a comparative examination of Norway and the UK

This paper offers a detailed comparative study of Norwegian and UK aid architectures, with a view to informing discussions on reform and renewal within Canada’s development programme. This is undertaken via a quantitative assessment of each country’s standing on accepted measures of donor performance, as well as via a qualitative case study that traces and compares the processes and nature of organizational reforms undertaken in Norway and the UK. Based on this quantitative and qualitative analysis, lessons for Canada are presented along four key dimensions, namely strategy, governance, policy processes and organizational management.