AID Effectivness Conversation – The CI Blogs
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Hi and best wishes. Many thanks for being part of The Drum Beat network.
Given the interest and conversation around James Deane’s blog on the really important issue of «AID Effectiveness» I wanted to further encourage your critical review of his piece from your perspective and analysis.
The blog can be read at http://comminit.com/policy-blogs/content/costs-and-benefits-consensus-future-aid-hangs-balance
It includes:
«The West has often messed up its development assistance. It has used aid to advance its own economic and political interests, lectured and hectored aid recipients and sometimes got things badly wrong. I would argue that it has also tried to learn from its mistakes and that, for all its problems, the aid effectiveness agreements of Paris and Accra were essentially progressive ones aimed at rectifying the mistakes of the past.»
http://comminit.com/policy-blogs/content/costs-and-benefits-consensus-future-aid-hangs-balance
Some excerpts from the many substantive comments received follow below.
Please do join this conversation with your analysis, critial review and ideas on both James’s blog and the comments submitted from the network.
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Some of the comments/critique submitted (very brief excerpts only) include:
«Very limited progress has been made in enhancing the capacity of developing country citizens to subject aid spending or national development policies to real scrutiny.» – Joseph Mtemang’ombe
«Aid recipient countries lack well-functioning and substantive freedom of information acts. In Tanzania for instance, the Parliament rejected a draft freedom of information act,» – Mkama Mwijarubi
«I was just so tempted to air my pessimism and cynicism. This leads me to even think whether development aid is still effective in bringing positive transformation to developing countries, particularly as we wage war against environmental destruction, climate change and poverty eradication.» – Anonymous
«I hope that this glaring contradiction did not go unnoticed in the conference and that considerable attention was given to how development aid, both North-South and South-South, played a role in the remarkable development that occurred in that country.» – Larry Kincaid
«And the Busan declaration does little to convince me that we will see much change in the power dynamic any time soon. Yes a recognition of new players and of south-south cooperation, but not much on civil society or civil society organisation» – Anonymous
«As far back as 1964, African countries were asking for better trade and not aid; sadly, today, we are talking more about aid than trade.» – Raymond Ablorh
«…today in South Africa we have serious challenge of disappearance of good, credible and important organizations because of lack of funding. International donors have signed bilateral agreements with government hence the bulk of funds are channeled to government coffers.» – Michael Gogwane
These comments can all be accessed at
http://comminit.com/policy-blogs/ – scroll down
Oh – if you want another blog on this theme I wrote a little piece called
«Development Effectiveness: Pushing the Elephant in the Room Uphill!»
http://comminit.com/policy-blogs/content/development-effectiveness-pushing-elephant-room-uphill
Please do comment, review, rate, share, etc
Thanks for joining this conversation.
Best wishes
Warren
Warren Feek
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