A Little Help for My Friends: Do Foreign Aid Donors Reject NGOs in Favor of their Blatantly Corrupt Allies?

Authors

Nicholas Jones, Brigham Young University
Dr. Darren Hawkins, Brigham Young University

Keywords

foreign aid donors, NGOs, corrupt allies, donor aid

College

Family, Home, and Social Sciences

Department

Political Science

Abstract

Our research examines whether donor countries care about the quality of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) when giving foreign aid to poor countries. When donor states give foreign aid to recipient states, such the US giving foreign aid to Uganda, the donor states must choose what is called a channel of delivery. This is the channel through which the donor’s aid will reach the intended beneficiaries. Donors can opt to channel their aid directly through the recipient government, or they can bypass the recipient government and instead utilize a non-state channel, such as an NGO. In past times, many donors have chanelled their aid through the recipient government, either because the aid’s purpose was to strengthen the government itself, or because of its distributional power.

Recommended Citation

Jones, Nicholas and Hawkins, Dr. Darren (2013) "A Little Help for My Friends: Do Foreign Aid Donors Reject NGOs in Favor of their Blatantly Corrupt Allies?," Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2013: Iss. 1, Article 455.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2013/iss1/455