'Don't cut the throat of aid'
by Mats Wingborg
Summary:
The philosophical principle of 'Ockham's razor' can be applied to
development aid: too complex interventions risk getting stuck somewhere in a
long chain of change factors.
A new Norwegian book is sceptical of aid interventions that presume complex
causal chains; there is a greater probability that something goes wrong –
often without our even knowing what.
It also criticizes the ambitions of aid evaluations; it is extremely rare to
find aid interventions which have been monitored several years after their
completion, although this is actually key.
It would be a mistake to cut the throat of anti-corruption, gender equality and
human rights. But such aspirations may take different forms, and perhaps not
always according to Western blueprints.
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