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DFID research: Governance for development in Africa: building on what works

Governance for development in Africa: building on what works.

• From: Department for International Development
• Published: 7 April 2011

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Millions of dollars have been spent on programmes to make private enterprise work in Africa as it does in the US, elections work as in Sweden, audit authorities as in Germany and civil society campaigns as in the Netherlands - with results that have been mixed at best.

In the Africa Power and Politics Programme바카라 사이트™s first policy brief, Governance for development in Africa: building on what works, director David Booth argues that currently, 바카라 사이트˜good governance바카라 사이트™ and most associated donor programmes are ideological, not evidence-based, and that it is 바카라 사이트˜the aid business that has to change to meet the needs of development, not the other way round.바카라 사이트™

The APPP Policy Brief 1, April 2011, is free to download .

Published 7 April 2011