A Donor Agency Scramble for South Africa

Author: Winkler Tanja  

Publisher: Routledge Ltd

ISSN: 1469-9265

Source: International Planning Studies, Vol.14, Iss.1, 2009-02, pp. : 7-24

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Abstract

The international development community invests bulk of its financial aid to South Africa in establishing procedural conditions through which development actions may be realized. Accordingly, 'democracy assistance' is designed to target governmental structures and civil society organizations (CSOs). International donor governments and aid agencies also assign an operational role to civil society so that it may assist in the process of change. However, an overt emphasis on the procedural aspects of democracy, governance, and development ignores the context and object of planning. Consequently, development planning in South Africa is perceived in narrow procedural terms alone, and not in terms of more holistic and equitable development responses.