African Experience in the Application of the Development Aid Effectiveness Principles

Dr Daniel Kipleel Borter is a development consultant interested in agricultural sector development in developing countries and previously worked for over 17 years in Kenya’s agricultural sector. Daniel holds PhD in the Anthropology of Development from University of Melbourne, with research interests in aid and development and development policy. He has researched the diffusion of global aid effectiveness policies in agriculture sector programmes in Kenya, donor practices and the aid effectiveness infrastructure. He has also taught development studies courses at Egerton University in Kenya and Australian Catholic University in Melbourne. Dr Nadeem Malik is a senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne. He served as Director of the Development Studies Program from 2009-2014 and is currently the Research Director of Anthropology and Development Studies. Before being an academic, he served in the development sector for around 20 years. His primary areas of specialization are Third World development, globalization, gender and development, governance, civil society and the state, decentralization or local governance, project and program management and monitoring and evaluation of development projects, anthropology of development, political anthropology and art/theatre and development.

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Aid Effectiveness, International Policy Transfer and Development and Post-Development Theory.- Chapter 3: The Aid Effectiveness Architecture and Kenya’s Agriculture Sector.- Chapter 4: Aid Effectiveness and Kenya’s Agricultural Policy and Strategy making processes.- Chapter 5: Aid Effectiveness and Perspectives and Practices of Donors.- Chapter 6: Aid and Agriculture Sector in Kenya: a Focus on Major Stakeholders.- Chapter 7: Overall Conclusions.