Civil society and regional food security Policy Brief No. 2: the role of external donors
Source: SAPRN, ODI and FANRPAN
External donors have always been important to SADC. Donors work at both the national and regional level to support closer regional integration, in food security amongst other things.
Donors also often prefer region–wide programmes as they appear to offer more efficiency in aid programming than might be the case with a series of relatively small programmes with similar objectives agreed with individual national governments.
The net result is that SADC currently has a larger proportion of its expenditure sourced from donors and a larger number of individual donors than any similar regional organisation. This does create management challenges and SADC and a ‘donor group’ (consisting of Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, UK, USA and the EU) meet regularly to ensure that decisions on aid support are informed by the best information available.
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