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Points of View
Aid Recipients: Between Local Ownership and Donor Demands |
 Local ownership of development is critical to the effectiveness of donor aid. Yet, countries often feel caught between donor demands to achieve development results and their own national priorities and capacities. In his report "In Larger Freedom", UN Secretary General Kofi Annan asked countries with extreme poverty to develop and begin to implement 10-year MDG-based poverty reduction programs by the end of 2006. Poverty reduction strategies, often prerequisites for donor assistance, involve the national adoption of procedures, often new to a country and its citizens. As a result, obtaining long-term government support for creating and implementing such strategies can be complex. How does donor-driven development match up with country-level ownership?
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"...The kind of governance system and practices that African countries are
putting in place cannot be a carbon copy or a transplant of what obtains
elsewhere. It has to have an African base because it must be rooted in our
culture, in the realities of every country. This doesn’t mean that there aren’t
universal democratic values or universal principles of good governance. But how
these values are translated depends on the realities of the country and can vary
from country to country." (Read
full interview)
Soumana
Sako, Executive Director
African Capacity Building Foundation
Zimbabwe
"It is clearly understood that poverty reduction is a priority for Laos PDR.
Also, clearly understood is the government policy to have Laos exit its LDC
status by 2020. But what is not understood is how to do this. There are not
enough funds and the essential know-how is lacking. In regard to the MDGs, there
is limited awareness and good understanding among the heads of departments and
technical support. It is not clear to outsiders how deeply understood the MDGs
are and of their relationship to poverty reduction and improved socio-economic
conditions." (Read
full interview)
"We have worked very hard and done a lot of things on the demand side. The
people of Nicaragua support this, but sometimes we get the feeling that things
are going too slowly and that there is not a lot of commitment from donors.
Sometimes you get cynical, thinking that harmonization and alignment are just
mechanisms for donors to very slowly give back what they took away very fast. It
seems that, instead of helping people who need it, it’s more about people coming
from abroad who want things done their way instead of the Nicaraguan way." (Read
full interview)
Mauricio
Gómez Lacayo, Vice Minister of Economic Relations and
Cooperation
Ministry of International Affairs
Nicaragua
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 How did Development Gateway members respond to our Aid Harmonization Survey questions?
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| How does donor support for the MDGs stack up? Charts and graphs measuring aid flows and public support- click here. |
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