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THE EAST‐CENTRAL EUROPEAN NEW DONORS: MAPPING CAPACITY BUILDING AND REMAINING CHALLENGES
Author(s) -
SzentIványi Balázs,
Tétényi András
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of international development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1328
pISSN - 0954-1748
DOI - 10.1002/jid.2922
Subject(s) - capacity building , visibility , politics , capacity development , political science , economic growth , business , regional science , geography , economics , environmental planning , meteorology , law
In the past decade, the East‐Central European countries were provided significant external capacity building assistance to help their emergence as donors of foreign aid. This paper aims to map these capacity development programmes and identify where they have helped and what challenges remain for the new donors. The main conclusion is that although capacity building has been instrumental in building organisational structures, working procedures and training staff, deeper underlying problems such as low levels of financing, lacking political will, the need for visibility and low staff numbers continue to hinder the new international development policies. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.