“Too much aid continues to be identified, designed and managed by donors. It is tied to their countries’ own firms, is poorly coordinated and is based on a set of assumptions about expatriate expertise and recipient ignorance.”
One quarter of the aid provided by rich countries – or $20bn a year – funds expensive and often ineffective western consultants, research and training instead of going directly to the people who need it most: In Cambodia, for example, consultants fees were $17,000 a month while government salaries were only $40. In Ghana, even relatively inexperienced consultants earned per day what government officials earned in a month. In Sierra Leone, according to one former UK-funded consultant, daily take-home pay was the same as the Auditor General’s monthly salary…- ActionAid.
[...] I Quoted ActionAid International earlier this year in a post titled “Phantom Aid versus Real Aid: “Too much aid continues to be identified, designed and managed by donors. It is tied to their countries’ own firms, is poorly coordinated and is based on a set of assumptions about expatriate expertise and recipient ignorance.†[...]
October 31, 2006 at 12:00 pm