Acknowledgements

About the authors:

Alice Obrecht, Independent consultant

Sophia Swithern, Independent consultant

The authors thank the many interviewees who informed this paper, as well as peer reviewers from REACH, the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) and the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). Special thanks go to Professor Alex Voorhoeve and Professor Hugo Slim, whose work inspired many aspects of this paper’s framework.

The authors also thank members of the ALNAP secretariat for contributing to the production of this paper, including research management by Jennifer Doherty, communications support from Wairimu Wanjau and Molly Maple, and project management from Anna-Louise van de Merwe.