Development Partnership is slowly but solidly becoming my speciality, and one of my personal task is to see how it works at the field level.
This matrix above, is a Division of Labour matrix of Development Partners (aid donors, basically.) in Tanzania.
What is it? Well, as you may know, there are sooo many agencies working in each developing country, hopefully to provide assistance towards the way the country wants to advance. If they didn't communicate at all, there will be overlaps and duplication of efforts, and that's basically annoying for the recipient country, and a pure waste of money for the assistance agencies. So in theory, development partnership aims to coordinate the efforts to maximise aid-effectiveness.
...and the DPs in Tanzania, a country renowned to be the best example of development partnership efforts, came up with the above matrix (and loads of other similar stuff).
Is this colourful matrix working nicely as it seems?
From what I've seen so far through several donor meetings that I attended, there was more conflict of interests than coordination in the donor community of Tanzania. Donor meetings are held, in theory to coordinate efforts and avoid duplications, but in reality it was more like each donor checking what others are doing, thinking what they are doing is the best.
If the information is shared but NOT USED to reduce excess efforts, to really co-assist respecting and listening to what Tanzania wants to do, then this "development partnership" is like putting the cart before the horse.
Unfortunately, it seems like that's the reality of that colourful matrix.. well, I'll continue my research, but if it is so, what can be done to promote the REAL development partnership...?
From tomorrow, I'm going away for a week-ish to visit hospitals in the South-Eastern region of TZ, to monitor implementation of quality control projects. I'll try to make the next one more interesting but next again may have to be pretty business-related. Pole (sorry)!
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