(Ebook) The Development Dance How Donors and Recipients Negotiate the Delivery of Foreign Aid by Haley J. Swedlund ISBN 9781501709784, 150170978X

(Ebook) The Development Dance How Donors and Recipients Negotiate the Delivery of Foreign Aid by Haley J. Swedlund ISBN 9781501709784, 150170978X

This book is the product of over seven years of research on donor–governmentrelations across many different countries. I did not start out intending to write abook on bargaining between donor agencies and recipient governments. I arrivedin Kigali, Rwanda, in 2009 in order to do research on the post-genocide period.I very quickly became fascinated by the dense network of policy dialogues andthe amount of effort that donor and government officials put into keeping thesedialogues alive. I therefore set in motion a research project designed to understand how donors and recipients negotiate the delivery of aid in Rwanda. After completing an initial wave of research in Rwanda, I was curious if thetheories I had started to develop were applicable elsewhere. With the help of agrant from the Research Executive Agency of the European Commission (CIGProject no. 322228), I embarked on a multiyear project that took me to Accra,Ghana; Kampala, Uganda; Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; and back to Rwanda. Theproject also allowed me to carry out a survey of development practitioners working in twenty countries across Africa. Throughout this period, the research subject matter has continued to captivate me. Development practitioners invest somuch time in maintaining their relationships with one another, yet we know solittle about how this affects the delivery of aid.