Norway’s monitoring of development aid and it’s results : a gut-feeling approach the case of Ukraine
Journal: Duo Research Archive (University of Oslo)
Year: 2018

This thesis addresses the risk of corruption in development aid. The study investigates\nwhether the risk assessments and risk mitigating measures used by Norway’s Ministry of\nForeign Affairs (MFA) sufficiently prevent Norwegian aid from being wasted in fraud and\ncorruption. The methodology is a case study of Ukraine where qualitative data collected in\ninterviews and documents are triangulated by quantitative data collected in aid statistics.\nMFA has a zero-tolerance policy for financial irr