Pressures on the Aid Architecture

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Pressures on the Aid Architecture
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Presentation

• The dream of a new world order
• An outsiders view on development aid
• Distortioans in the aid chain
• Consequences
• Towards an operational utopia

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I. The dream of a new world order
After Worldwar II end of old imperialism
period decolonisation New world order
inspired by Mahatma Ghandi the world has
enough for everyones needs, but not for
everyones greed
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• Eleanor Franklin Roosevelt
• Four Freedom Speech
• Freedom of speech
• Freedom to worhship God
• Freedom from fear
• Freedom from want

Julius Nyerere Ujaama
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What has happened to this dream some 60 years
later?
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Presentation

• The dream of a new world order
• An outsiders view on development aid.
• 3. Distortions in the aid chain
• 4. Consequences
• 5. Towards an operational utopia

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• Four major trends
• Loss of credibility
• gt are we able to solve the problem of poverty?
• gt large overheads old language
• 2. Powerchanges State CS PS
• gt Role of the State much smaller
• gt Influence of Private Sector much bigger
• gt Explosive growth of NGOs

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Four major trends 3. Loss of monopoly New
actors gt Migrants gt Business in development
BOP - SCR gt New philantropists
Foundations big and small 4. Fossilisation
of development bureaucracies with top-heavy
controll systems
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Presentation

• The dream of a new world order
• An outsiders view on development aid.
• 3. Distortions in the aid chain
• 4. Consequences
• 5. Towards an operational utopia

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The vicious circle of aid
Heavy System demands
Focus on results
Growing competition
De-politisation of Aid
Need to profile Claiming successes
Poor learning Quality affected
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Presentation

• The dream of a new world order
• An outsiders view on development aid.
• 3. Distortions in the aid chain
• 4. Consequences
• 5. Towards an operational utopia

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Consequences for CSOs

• Civil society runs the risk of becoming
• Fragmented no co-ordination
• Taking over natural roles of the state
• Strong independent CSOs or subcontractors
• Loosing its countervailing power
• Weakened by presence of Northern and
  international NGOs
• Loosing its focus on poorest countries and
  poorest groups where chances of success are (too)
  small
• loosing its legitimacy and its role to militant
  social movements

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Presentation

• The dream of a new world order
• An outsiders view on development aid.
• 3. Distortions in the aid chain
• 4. Consequences
• 5. Towards an operational utopia

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Time to re-invent ourselves

• Poverty politics
• bring politics back to the centre of debate
• 2) Debate about the nature of change
• 3) Development sector out of the cocon
• 4) Relation Northern CSOs Southern CSOs
• 5) Relation backdonor CSO

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Change as a continuous process


No longer fixed patterns
But ..continously assessing, adepting, looking
for new opportunities
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Thank you !