Int'l Donors and Local Partners Need Fundamental Change

One of the major issues hindering effectiveness of donor programs is courruption at the government level. Many programs are rendered ineffective because of the siphoning away of major sums of money.

Another issue is that the supervision of the grants by the donor agencies is done by their own consultants and staff. The bulk of these are political appointees or retired bureaucrats, with the remainder coming from academia rather than industry.

A worthy effort from the scholarly perpective.

Too dry for Chand Raat so one cannot expect replies to pour in.

Where is Arjun_m?

Ras

Rajeeb: Donor-NGO relations are obviously an important issue, and you are right on the need for the two to look at the over-all goal then to simply please one another. Dont expect a major discussion on chowk on this issue though, since most interactors have not had any experience in this area. Also, the topic is too broad, and there is a vast variety of NGOs with vastly differing motivations. So, it is not possible to arrive at any general conclusions beyond what you say about both donor and NGO should work with the goal in mind - and of course no one will disagree with it.