Document Abstract
Published:
2000
Learning in development co-operation
Do aid agencies and their counterparts learn from their experiences? Is gained knowledge fed back into improved practices?
This volume contains 16 articles, in which professionals with long experience of working with development assistance, inside and outside donor and recipient agencies, present their personal reflections and ideas about learning, with examples from rural China to the World Bank headquarter in Washington.
Five factors are singled out as particularly prominent constraints on organisational learning in the field of development co-operation:
- political constraints
- the unequal nature of the aid relationship
- problems internal to the organisation of the aid agency
- weak organisations
- capacities on the recipient side and poor quality of information
