International develoment non-government organisations (INGOs)are a recognised component of Aotearoa New Zealand society. In 2012 CID advised the Government that INGOs are the key conduit for many thousands of New Zealanders that donated over $114 million in 2011 in support of international development and disaster relief. Since the 1970s the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and TRade (MFAT) has managed the allocation of a proportion of Government Overseas Development Assistance to subsidise the money raised from the public by the INGOs. The impact of INGO involvement in development projects and programmes has received considerable academic scrutiny; however little attention has been paid to the understanding and operation of partnership within international activities . This thesis focuses on the partnership practices of New Zealand INGOs.

This thesis contributes to current debates on aid politics, policy and practice by exploring the dynamics of the new aid agenda which emerged in the 1990s and early 2000s, focused on poverty reduction and the Millennium Development Goals. Concerns with aid effectiveness have led to renewed interest in programme aid (particularly budget support), coordination of aid and harmonisation around developing country strategies, and ownership. Through an exploration of aid in Rwanda since 1994, I demonstrate the complexity of translating into practice a global consensus about the need for coherent, coordinated and effective aid. Different understandings and interests exist among donor agencies, within donor agencies, between donors and the developing country government, and within that government. On the one hand these reflect the specific Rwandan context, the recent history of the country, the nature of the Government and its development strategies, individual donor interests, donor domestic social and political issues, and personal agency. On the other hand, these differences relate to more general donor positions, including how donor policies tie in with international shifts in thinking on aid. I further analyze problems around the ownership of development policy and practice in aid-dependent environments. The thesis discusses the Government of Rwanda’s development strategy, its political and developmental priorities, and how these have been affected by its reliance on external assistance. It considers the relationship between the Government and donors and amongst donors by examining coordination and harmonisation mechanisms on the ground. It concentrates particularly on bilateral donors, and takes a deeper look at Belgium, a ‘traditional’ donor to Rwanda, and the UK, a ‘new’ donor, in order to compare and contrast donor positions. I conducted primary research over 18 months in Rwanda, the UK and Belgium, using semi-structured interviews with government officials, politicians and civil society representatives, observation of interactions between the Government and donors, as well as in-depth analysis of policy documents. Diversity among the positions of actors in the aid system is not a new phenomenon. However, given the increasing convergence at the international level around universal goals, my research indicates that a much deeper understanding, and acceptance, of the political and practical complexity of aid at the country level is essential if aid effectiveness debates are to be enhanced.

The purpose of this research is to generate an insightful study of the effectiveness of U.S. aid on Mozambique's developing economy. Over the past 30 years, the U.S. , along with numerous other multilateral and bilateral organizations, has given large amounts of development assistance to Mozambique and, in the same duration, the country has seen tremendous economic improvement. Thus, this study aims to detennine the exact nature of the relationship between U.S. aid and per capita GDP from 1981-2007 for both Mozambique and a panel of African countries. According to prior studies, aggregate development assistance has greatly benefited Mozambique's economy and is a proven factor of economic growth for developing countries. This research, while showing a positive correlation between total official development assistance and growth, proves the effect of U.S. aid contributions to be insignificant.

Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / Aid coordination in the health sector is known to be challenging in general, but even more in post-conflict settings, due to the multiplicity of actors of development, to the sense of emergency in providing health services, combined with the so-called weak institutional capacities‘ at local level, resulting from the conflict. This study sought to analyze broad determinants of aid coordination using the example of HRH policies in Burundi, during the post-conflict period. Burundi is a country in Central Africa, which experienced cyclic ethnic conflicts since its independence in 1962, the last conflict being the longest (1993-2006).Determinants of coordination were analyzed using the policy-analysis triangle (Gilson et Walt), using data from documents and semi-structured interviews, conducted in 2009 and in 2011, at national, provincial and facility-levels. A conceptual framework, combining organizational and social sciences theories, was devised in order to assess the organizational power of MoH, the one supposed to act as coordinator in the health sector. Findings showed a lack of coordination due to post-conflict specific context, to competition over scarce resources between both donor and recipient organizations and to an insufficiently incentivized and complex coordination process in practical. Most importantly, this research demonstrated the crucial role of post-conflict habitus and mistrust in the behavior of MoH and their influence on organizational power, and, in turn on their capacity to coordinate and exert an appropriate leadership. These findings, together with the growing body of literature on organizational sociology and collective trust, point at the crucial need to rebuild some of the wounded collective trust and organizational leadership in Burundi and in other fragile states.

Diploma thesis "Effectiveness of Danish development aid to Ghana" deals with effectiveness of Danish development aid which is defined in close relation to the concept of sustainable development. The chosen approach for analysis is empirical-analytical methodology. The thesis starts with analysing Danish development concepts in order to point out the size of influence of the main actors of Danish development aid during procedure of their creation. Forementioned analysis is followed by comparison of the main principles of the concept of sustainable development and important objectives of analysed Danish concepts. This part is important for giving reader the main links between chosen concept of sustainable development and Danish development strategies. Final part of the thesis measures the aid effectiveness of Danish strategies for Ghana, based on Joint Evaluation findings with particular interest in health sector. The effectiveness is measured on the basis of sustainable criterion, which is related to seven factors of the sustainable development.

Depuis quelques années, la coordination de l’aide est devenue un enjeu majeur des politiques de développement. Cependant, les différences d’approche en matière de stratégies entre donateurs et bénéficiaires rend plus complexe la définition d’un mécanisme de coordination global qui doit dépasser les questions de fondements, d’enjeux, de formes et de modalités de l’aide, pour enfin s’intéresser à la problématique de coordination dans l’optique d’accroître son efficacité. Ainsi, l’efficacité de l’aide qui se trouve être au coeur d’une meilleure coordination, exige que les acteurs passent de la rhétorique à des pratiques institutionnelles nouvelles, conformément aux orientations de la Déclaration de Paris et de l’Agenda d’Accra. En considérant l’histoire globale de l’Aide Publique au Développement (APD), il y a lieu de se demander si celle-ci est structurellement conçue pour promouvoir la croissance économique et/ou pour réduire la pauvreté. En effet, les différents systèmes d’aide se sont heurtés à deux grands défis au cours des deux dernières décennies : le premier a été son inefficacité actuelle pour ce qui est de la réduction de la pauvreté à l’échelon mondial et le deuxième a consisté à vouloir contribuer à une « meilleure gouvernance mondiale ». Au regard des engagements internationaux pris par le Niger et ses partenaires au développement notamment dans le cadre des OMD, l’analyse des réalisations faites en la matière montre qu’en dépit des résultats mitigés, la recherche d’une meilleure efficacité de l’aide occupe une place de choix dans l’agenda politique des différents gouvernements nigériens depuis 2003. Pour les autorités nigériennes, l’approche stratégique adoptée en la matière vise un double objectif : accroître progressivement le volume de l’aide et renforcer son efficacité. / This paper examines aid for development coordination issues against the backdrop of a case study on Niger. Indeed partnership and aid coordination were a major dilemma among development agencies for quite some time. Somehow difference of approach in terms of strategy between international donors and recipient countries made it a real challenge to set up a global coordinating mechanism so as to break down the barriers regarding the rationale, goals, nature and modality underpinning foreign aid, if only to increase its effectiveness. That’s how the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and the Accra Agenda championed a shift from rhetoric to some new institutional orientation in development practice. Historical perspectives on Public Aid for Development (PAD) invariably a rise the question whether foreign aid is structurally meant to promote economic growth and/or reduce poverty. During the past two decades all trends in foreign assistance were confronted with two significant controversies. First, there was a growing recognition of its inefficiency to reduce poverty at global level. Secondly, donors’ focus was rather on promoting "better governance worldwide". Considerable efforts were steadily made by the Government of Niger and its partners, since the year 2003 "Project Forum" initiated by that country with a view to aligning donors’ assistance with national strategy, to give special consideration to aid effectiveness. Evidence is shown by the country’s Policy Conceptual Framework for that period, especially within the scope of the MDG’s, even though public investment outcomes proved to be ambivalent. Yet, the country engaged in a strategic approach with a double objective for achieving better efficiency of development interventions funded by foreign assistance, and, at the same time, progressively increasing the volume of aid allocations which is itself a further guaranty for raising the level of effectiveness.

La thèse analyse la trajectoire de développement du Sénégal, parti d’une situation favorable avec de nombreux atouts pour se développer en 1960, à la quasi-faillite du pays en 1974. Cette analyse est menée sous l’angle des relations économiques et financières entre le Sénégal et la France, de 1960 à 1974. La démarche consiste à partir du concept de développement qui définit la coopération entre les deux pays, pour mesurer, décrire et évaluer son impact sur les politiques successives de développement, la structure de l’économie et le fonctionnement des institutions du Sénégal. Sans prétendre à l’exhaustivité, l’objectif principal consiste à tenter d’expliquer cette trajectoire de développement du pays et d’apprécier la part de responsabilité des acteurs publics et privés des deux pays. / This thesis provides an analysis of Senegal’s development trajectory from 1960 to 1974. At independence the country was in a favourable position with many assets to strengthen its development: industries, infrastructures and many famous intellectuals. However, in 1974, Senegal was in decline and facing bankruptcy. This analysis is conducted using a framework of economic and financial relations between Senegal and France from 1960 to 1974. The approach is based on the concept of development, which defines the cooperation between both countries. It aims to measure, describe, and assess its impact on the successive development policies, on Senegalese economic structures and the functioning of institutions. Without pretending to be exhaustive, the main aim is to try to explain this country’s development trajectory and appreciate the responsibility of public and private actors in both countries.

Madagascar classé parmi les pays moins avancés et se trouvant en situation précaire a bénéficié des aides venant de nombreux bailleurs, bilatéraux et multilatéraux, traditionnels ou nouveaux pour financer pour l’appuyer à mettre en œuvre son programme de développement.Depuis son indépendance jusqu’à ce jour, il n’a cessé de recevoir des aides publiques au développement. Pourtant, jusqu’à ce jour sa situation ne s’améliore guère. L’adoption en 2005 de la Déclaration de Paris (DP) lors du forum de haut niveau par le CAD de l’OCDE a instauré une nouvelle orientation politique plus centrée sur la promotion de l’harmonisation et la coordination des politiques d’aides pour atteindre l’efficacité de toutes les actions menant à une stabilité mais également à un développement durable. Conscient des défis à relever, Madagascar s’est engagé dans cette démarche de mise en cohérence des politiques et d’harmonisation des pratiques. Il est un des cinquante pays qui ont adopté et signé cette déclaration. Cette orientation politique devait donner un souffle et recommande les partenaires techniques et financiers (PTF) à fédérer et travailler ensemble réellement pour que les aides soient vraiment un outil de développement non plus un problème du pays bénéficiaire. La dernière déclaration faite à Busan sur l’efficacité de l’aide en 2011 souligne encore sur cet aspect .Aussi, depuis 2005 le Gouvernement malgache avec l’appui de l’ensemble de ses PTF, bailleurs de fonds, a décidé de mettre en place un agenda pour l’horizon 2015. Cet agenda, une sorte de feuille de route, fixe les grandes étapes que les acteurs devraient suivre pour instaurer des mécanismes de gestion harmonisés et coordonnés des aides publiques au développement. Ce sont des cadres incitatifs de partenariat entre bailleurs et Gouvernement que ce dernier tente d’instaurer. Ces actions ont débuté par la mise en œuvre des réformes pour rendre fiables les systèmes nationaux et regagner la confiance des PTF. Par la suite, il a été procédé à la mise en place d’un organe de coordination et des mécanismes de suivi-évaluation nationale et conjointe des politiques publiques et celles des aides extérieures. Parallèlement, au niveau de chaque secteur , il est cherché l’adaptation des approches dans le but d’aller dans le sens de cette nouvelle orientation politique. Dans la pratique, ces démarches ne sont pas faciles à appliquer et des difficultés sont ressenties tant politiques que techniques. C’est ce qui engendre le désordre dans la cartographie nationale de l’aide et la méfiance dans l’application des cinq principes de mise en cohérence : Appropriation, Alignement, Harmonisation, Gestion accès sur les résultats et responsabilités mutuels connu sous le sigle d’harmonisation.L’instabilité causée par la survenance de la crise de 2009 a ralenti le processus bien enclenché bien que les résultats obtenus ont été encourageants. En effet, l’évaluation de la mise en œuvre de la DP en 2010 a évoqué une baisse de performance par rapport à celle de 2008. La recherche de complémentarité, de synergie entre les bailleurs avec comme facteurs de réussite l’appropriation des politiques sont les défis à relever. Le maintien des acquis s’avèrerait important pour éviter le recul et le retour des anciennes pratiques non adaptées à la politique de coopération internationale pour le développement . De même, du côté des autorités malgaches l’attention doit être focalisée sur le comment instaurer un climat et environnement administratif et économique sain pour regagner la confiance des acteurs nationaux de développement et les bailleurs de fonds. / Madagascar among less advanced countries in a precarious situation has benefited aids from many donors, bilateral and multilateral, traditional or new ones, to finance its development program implementation.Since its independence, it has not stopped receiving such public aids for development. However, no improvement has occurred up to now. In 2005, the adoption of the Paris Declaration during the High Level Forum by the Development Assistance Committee (DAC-OECD) established a new political orientation based on promoting harmonisation and coordinating aid policies to ensure efficiency of all actions for a sustainable stability and development. Being aware of the challenges to take up, Madagascar enrolled in the process of ensuring the politics and practise harmonization consistency. It is one of the fifty countries that adopted and signed for this declaration. The above political orientation had to provide a breath of fresh air and recommends to the technical and financial partners (PTFs) to really unite and work together so that aids could be an actual development tool and no more a problem for the beneficiary country. The last Busan Aid Effectiveness Declaration in 2011 still emphasizes this aspect .Therefore, since 2005, the malgache government with the support of all its PTFs, donors, has decided to put an agenda in place for the 2015 horizon. This agenda, a sort of roadmap, fixes the important steps that the players should follow to establish harmonized and coordinated managing mechanism of the public development aids. It is a partnership incentive between donors and government that the latter tries to establish. Those actions began with the reform implementation to make the national system reliable and to win back the PTFs’ confidence. Therefore, the implementation of the coordinating entity and the mechanism of national monitoring survey joint with public policies and external aids has been processed. Simultaneously, at each sector’s level, the approach adaptation has been searched to be in agreement with this new political orientation. In practice, these processes are not easy to carry out and some difficulties are politically and technically experienced. This engenders disorder in the national aid mapping and suspicion in the application of the five consistency principles: Ownership, Alignment, Harmonisation, Managing for results and Mutual accoutability known as harmonisation.The instability caused by the 2009 crisis occurrence has slowed down the well engaged process despite the promising results. In fact, the 2010 DP implementation survey evoked a performance decrease if compared to that of 2008. The search for complementary feature, for synergy between financial donor(s) with politics appropriation as a factor in the success are the challenges. Knowledge keeping would be important to prevent from regression and coming back to the old practices that are not adapted to the international cooperation for the development . In the same way, the malgache authority should more focalize their attention to the way how to regain the national development players’ and the donors’ trust.

Le concept d'aide au développement a fait son intrusion dans l'histoire au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Le titre XIII de la constitution du 4 octobre 1958 ébaucha la politique de coopération. Le général De Gaulle entendait résoudre le dilemme : replier le drapeau tricolore sans rompre les liens historiques. Or, si la légitimité française dans le nouveau partenariat trouvait des arguties juridiques, les ambitions qu'il concentrait comportaient des faiblesses. L'engagement pour le développement peut durer « ad vitam aeternam ». La diversité d'instruments administratifs et financiers, ainsi que la multitude d'acteurs ajoutent à la confusion. Les réformes du dispositif de la coopération n'ont pas encore gommé l'idée des « mutations impromptues ». L' «Esquisse théorique de la coopération franco-gabonaise de 1960 à nos jours : une aide publique au sous-développement ? » révèle l'ambiguïté, la dichotomie entre coopération et développement. En dépit des énormes potentialités d'un pays d'environ 1,5 million d'habitants, la coopération peine à sortir les Gabonais de la pauvreté. Ils sont aussi pauvres plus d'un demi-siècle après les indépendances, qu'ils l'étaient au moment où l'administration coloniale passait la main. Si l'assistance technique française a certes permis une certaine relève de celle-ci, dite « gabonisation », l'essentiel de l'économie de ce pays reste concentré dans les mains des Français où passe une part non négligeable des investissements publics français. L'importance du Gabon pour la France a suscité une coopération de l'ombre où transpire toutes sortes de dérives antinomiques au progrès : gabegie, favoritisme, concussion, sectarisme... monolithisme. / The concept of development aid made its intrusion in history shortly after the Second World War. Title XIII of the constitution of October 4, 1958 outlined the policy of co-operation. The General De Gaulle intended to solve the dilemma : to fold up the Tricolour without breaking the historical bonds. However, if French legitimacy in the new partnership found legal quibbles, the ambitions which it concentrated comprised of the weakness. Engagement for the development can last « Ad vitam aeternam ». The diversity of administrative and financial instruments, as well as the multitude of actors add to confusion. The reforms of the mechanism of the co-operation did not gum yet the idea of the « changes impromptues ». The « theoretical draft of the French Gabonese co-operation since 1960 until nowadays : a public aid for the underdevelopment ? » reveals ambiguity, the dichotomy between co-operation and development. In spite of the enormous potentialities of a country from approximately 1,5 million inhabitants, the co-operation pains to bring out the Gabonese of the poverty line. They are as poor, 50 years after the independences, as they were at the time when the colonial administration passed the hand over. If the French technical aid allowed certainly a certain changing of this one, called « gabonisation », the essential of the economy in this country remains concentrated in the hands of the French where a considerable share of the French public investments passes. The importance of Gabon for France caused a co-operation of the shade where all kind of paradoxical drifts to progress perspires : underhand dealings, favoritism, misappropriation, sectarianism... monolithism.

Although the International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade has generated great interest from foreign aid donors, its impact. in terms of increased service levels has been poor. These disappointing results have been explained by the UN and other donors in terms of inadequate funding and lack of cost recovery, poor operations and maintenance, lack of personnel, unacceptable technology, poor logistics and non involvement of the beneficiaries. However, an alternative explanation revolves around factors contributing to poor project design. These include the lack of understanding of the development process, donor bias and self interest, and poor coordination and commitment by the recipient government. A review of the development and trends of contemporary aid philosophy and its translation in to rural development and water and sanitation projects, which led to the launch of the IDWSSD, provides a number of lessons that can be used to formulate a hybrid model for project design and the sector development process, that defines the relative roles of donors, recipient governments and people themselves. The model is based on coordinated development, community participation, and sector growth from pilot projects to large scale programmes. The developments in the rural water and sanitation sector that took place in Zimbabwe from 1974 to 1987, provide a unique opportunity to test this model using a systems analysis approach. After gaining Independence in 1980, Zimbabwe's development assistance funding grew tenfold with the influx of foreign donors, and major commitments were made by the new Government to rural development and the goals of the IDWSSD. However, the large investments in water and sanitation which included the preparation of a national master plan with external technical assistance, had both positive and negative impacts on the continuing development of the sector, the start of which can be traced back, well before Independence, to small pilot projects sponsored by non government organizations that used appropriate technology developed by the Rhodesian Government. This development process and the changing approach to project design is illustrated by a series of case studies of projects supported by multilateral and bilateral donors, and non government organizations, that were milestones during this period. Finally the project and sector development model is modified based on the practical lessons from Zimbabwe and recommendations for future practice are made together with suggestions for areas of further research.