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Africa’s relationship with Western donors, for example, has historically placed individual rights over national rights.
Every government has limited funds, but Haiti has an annual budget of just $2 billion, with foreign donors allocating another $1 billion.
Focusing on the problems, though, tells us little about where donors or Haiti’s government could make the biggest difference.
The research provides NGOs and government officials with the intellectual ammunition to advocate for more funding for effective solutions, and it gives donors and elected officials a wealth of data on which to base tough decisions.
We are appealing to donors around the world to help us reach $2 billion in annual funds by 2020.
What Guterres and Uganda’s donors need to understand is that Museveni is a trickster, like the hare in a classical African folktale.
That appeal drew large and enthusiastic crowds, which, together with astute use of the Internet, gained him an unprecedented four million donors, and induced a huge number of African-Americans and young people to register to vote.
For example, nearly $200 million provided by the World Bank and other donors to Ghana for telecommunications development in a 1988 development project had almost no measurable impact.
The Global Fund board’s governance structure is as innovative as its approach to funding, comprising donors, people affected by the target diseases, civil-society organizations from developed and developing countries, and governments.
And yet today, despite the Global Fund’s effectiveness and its strong anti-corruption track record, donors have cited “bad governance” as an excuse for withholding further committed resources.
In the last two years, the Global Fund’s biggest donors – the United States and the United Kingdom – have bailed out badly managed banks and other financial institutions, despite overwhelming evidence of unethical behavior, abuse of power, and bad governance by senior management.
(Burundi is an aid-dependent country, so donors have considerable sway in influencing its rulers' behavior.)
Burundi's donors need to join hands with African leaders to make certain that the agreements are implemented.
Everyone agrees that recent pledges of a $1 billion in aid are a sign that donors are ready to show Burundians that peace has a dividend.
Burundi will need even deeper pockets from its donors to transform today's political overtures into sustainable peace.
Governments and donors can build clinics and schools, for example, but the investments are meaningless if the drugs and books aren’t delivered, or if the nurses and teachers don’t show up to work.
While Obama was hardly the first American politician to use the Internet, he was the most effective in using new technology to raise money from small donors, energize and coordinate volunteers, and convey his messages directly to voters.
The underlying assumption, shared by aid donors like the World Bank and the African Development Bank, is that more investment in the national grid, coupled with utility reform, will cause power to trickle down to the people.
Aid donors could also do more.
Government officials also need the skill and flexibility to work with local communities, private businesses, international organizations, and potential donors.
The orthodox agriculture-led growth strategy of the 1960’s, the favored antidote to five decades of a “happy peasant” aid doctrine, must be replaced with an agribusiness development strategy whereby policymakers, donors, and entrepreneurs target the entire value chain to support a shift from bulk products to value-added, agro-industrial manufactured products.
The Kremlin has effectively prohibited some foreign donors, including the Open Society Foundations, from issuing grants in Russia, and has implemented a requirement that organizations receiving any foreign funding declare themselves to be “foreign agents” – essentially, spies.
Americans Elect will use a long series of competitions and online and offline convocations to select a candidate who will be beholden to millions of people at large, rather than to a smaller group of big donors whose interests the candidate must serve.
Not surprisingly, hidden spending by big donors has skyrocketed in the past seven years.
They must demand a voice in planning and implementing the reconstruction effort and, along with international donors, transparency and public auditing of where aid is spent.
While Norway has made the biggest commitment to UN-REDD and other initiatives to date, other donors – including the European Commission, Denmark, Japan, and Spain – are also contributing.
The use of development aid as a political stick merely deepens the suffering of impoverished and unstable countries, without producing the political objectives sought by donors.
Foreign entities that have made substantial investments in Russia’s future include American philanthropic organizations, such as Carnegie Corporation of New York, as well as other Western donors.
Most important, local leaders must be genuinely committed to the process, rather than seeking to curry favor with donors.
Ethiopia’s New Climate of FearVienna – The European Union, the United States, and other major donors will pump about $2.5 billion into Ethiopia this year, a sum that does not even begin to include the cost of medicines, famine relief, and countless other services provided by non-profit groups in one of the world’s most impoverished countries.
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