CIAO DATE: 12/2009
November 2009
Danish Institute for International Studies
In some countries, donors have over the years become so entangled in national policy-making that achievement of local ownership of development cooperation seems an illusion. In others, governments have been able to control this. Lindsay Whitfield argues that the historical development of the relationship between donor and recipient countries constitute the critical context in which current concerns with alignment and ownership need to be understood. She explores this on the basis of case studies of eight African countries.
Resource link: Ownership and the Donor-Recipient Relationship [PDF] - 452K