Making Aid Work: Lessons from Successful Technical Cooperation in the Former Soviet Bloc (Urban Institute Press) - Hardcover

Struyk, Raymond J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1840141328 ISBN 13: 9781840141320

Publisher: Routledge, 1997

Synopsis

From the perspective of a distinguished director of technical cooperation projects in Hungary and the Russian Federation (as well as several Asian countries in an earlier period), this book provides a set of lessons for structuring a successful program. These lessons are for the donor community and the firms and individuals in charge of implementation. Written in readable nontechnical terms, Making Aid Work is a must for both the donor community and firms and individuals on the implementation front line. According to a General Accounting Office report, the Russian Federation project that Struyk uses for his primary examples has won rare praise: The USAID Mission Director in Moscow called it one of the most successful ones he has ever seen; a USAID official in Washington said that, for the money, no USAID project has had more macroeconomic impact.

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Synopsis

Written in readable, non-technical terms, a set of lessons are provided here for structuring a successful programme of technical cooperation. Drawing on his and others' relevant experience, the author aims his work specifically at the donor community and firms or individuals in charge of such a program's implementation. Struyk builds from the foundation that the ultimate goal of such work should be to foster development in the recipient area; that such programmes should be replaced by local institutions once knowledge and expertise has been passed on. To help his readers realize this aim, he gives specific case-study evidence applicable to the newly-independent states.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1840141328
• ISBN 13: 9781840141320
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224