Stephen Ndegwa
Stephen Ndegwa is a Lead Specialist in Public Sector Governance at the World Bank’s PREM Africa division. A former professor of political science focusing on democratization, civil society, and the politics of development, his work at the Bank focuses on political economy of reform, decentralization, and leadership and change management. He has worked in the Bank’s Africa and East Asia regional divisions and the Public Sector Governance central division.
We have argued that politicians are the ultimate arbiters of the success of foreign assistance, and that development has always been intimately related to political interests, the distribution of resources and unequal access to power and information. No great new insights, but articulating development as a political process steered by political drivers has implications for the way aid gets shaped. If Dutch parliamentarians are the ultimate arbiters of Dutch bilateral aid programmes, this evaluation provides some disturbing insights into the state of the Dutch aid and democracy.
5 February, 2008
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