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Papers by Oliver Saasa

African Social Research, 1996

This report is part of Sida Evaluations, a series comprising evaluations of Swedish development a... more This report is part of Sida Evaluations, a series comprising evaluations of Swedish development assistance. Sida's other series concerned with evaluations, Sida Studies in Evaluation, concerns methodologically oriented studies commissioned by Sida. Both series are administered ...

IDS Bulletin, Jul 1, 2005

Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 1996

... has been actively involved in the activities through the provision of financial resources ...... more ... has been actively involved in the activities through the provision of financial resources ... concerned the NORAD-supported Water Supply and Sanitation Programme in Western Province of Zambia. ... The issue of aid coordination also features prominently in this study and Chapter 9 ...

African Studies Review, Sep 1, 2003

the World Bank, poverty has remained pervasive and, in a good number of these countries, worsened... more the World Bank, poverty has remained pervasive and, in a good number of these countries, worsened. The level of desperation is reinforced by the fact that in spite of aid and the structural reform prescriptions, these economies have become poorer and poorer. Indeed, the effectiveness of aid, on the one hand, and the composition, speed and sequencing of structural reforms, on the other, have increasingly been questioned in both the North and South and a feeling of 'aid fatigue' (on the part of the donors) and 'external prescriptions fatigue' (among the poor recipients) has set in. What, really, has gone wrong? The question above generated the interest for carrying out the study whose findings are recorded in this book. Out of the disappointments with aid and major structural reforms in developing countries arise key questions: What is amiss with aid? Isn't aid supposed to result in economic and social prosperity? What is the missing link between aid and positive change? Is the problem mainly that the volume of aid is not sufficient and, as is often heard, more of it would make a difference? Are the ground rules under which aid changes hands supportive of positive responses? Could it be that what Africa should strive for is the reverse: to reduce aid dependence? 8 Are the systems and structures that receive, apply, manage, and monitor aid appropriate? Is the aid relationship between donors and recipients enabling enough to realise the often lofty ideals of external assistance? Does local ownership matter and is it really necessary to involve the poor themselves in defining who they are, what they expect to get out of poverty-reducing interventions, and how to realise desired goals? Is the sluggish social and economic progress in SSA appropriately diagnosed and correct remedies and strategies prescribed? To address these and related theoretical and empirical challenges a number of Europe-based research institutions, in collaboration with others in Africa, cooperated in commissioning a series of studies in several developing countries in Africa and elsewhere that looked at the performance of a representative number of projects/ programmes that are funded by European countries. 9 It was in this context that the Nordic Africa Institute collaborated with the Institute of Economic and Social Research at the University of Zambia to undertake a study, the findings of which partially are reflected in this book. The main aim of the initiative was to establish the degree to which European-funded projects that aspire to be poverty-focused have realised their missions. The results discussed in this book relate to the Zambian component of this larger project. The case studies that form the basis of part of the analysis in this book are all located in Zambia, one of the African countries that has continued to receive European aid but where there appears to be little correlation between the magnitude of external resource flows and poverty reduction. The European donor countries that were included in the Zambian component of the analysis are Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Finland. In addition to the more country-specific case studies, one project that is funded by the EU itself was included in the analysis. Nine projects have been examined and are as follows:-Micro Projects Programme (EU)-Health Sector Support Programme (Denmark)-Luapula Livelihood and Food Security Programme (Finland) 8. The African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), for example, commissioned multi-country studies in 1998 focusing on this option. For the Zambian input, see Saasa, O.S. and I. Mwanawina, 1999. 9. The consolidated results of these country studies have since been published in Cox, A. and J. Healey, 2000.

Verfassung und Recht in Übersee, 1988

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