This book analyses the diffusion and implementation of Aid Effectiveness Principles in Kenya’s agricultural sector. Although Aid Effectiveness Principles represent a significant step in aid and development discourse, studies on its implementation remain inadequate, especially in the African context. This book combines the perspectives of the Kenyan government, donor representatives and small-scale farmers. The discussion on Kenya brings in comparative perspectives and, therefore, would have broader relevance to the African region, in general. It highlights a disconnect between the government and farmers concerning the ownership concept, where farmers lack a voice in important policy matters. The book shows that donors have exploited the weaknesses in government responses to interpret The Principles in ways that suit their strategic interests. Consequently, the book argues that the diffusion of Aid Effectiveness Principles has taken the form of symbolic imitation – a form of policy diffusion where the policymakers choose policies for their symbolic value rather than their effectiveness.
Author(s): Daniel Kipleel Borter, Nadeem Malik
Series: African Histories and Modernities
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 271
City: Singapore
Acknowledgements
Contents
Abbreviations
List of Figures
1 Introduction
1.1 Background
1.2 Research Questions
1.3 Research Design
1.4 Data: Selection, Collection and Analysis
1.4.1 Selection
1.4.2 Data Collection Methods
1.4.3 Key Informant Interviews
1.4.4 Focus Group Discussions
1.4.5 Document Content Analysis
1.4.6 Participant Observation
1.5 Data Analysis
1.6 Structure of the Book
References
2 Aid Effectiveness, International Policy Transfer and Development and Post-Development Theory
2.1 The Historical Background of Aid and Aid Effectiveness
2.2 Reforms, Conditions and Aid Effectiveness
2.3 The Aid Effectiveness Principles and the Concept of Ownership
2.4 Aid Effectiveness Principles and Africa’s Agriculture Sector
2.5 Aid Effectiveness Principles And Non-DAC Donors
2.6 International Policy Transfer and Diffusion and Aid Effectiveness Principles
2.7 Theory of International Policy Diffusion
2.7.1 Coercion
2.7.2 Learning
2.7.3 Competition, Cooperative Interdependence and Symbolic Imitation
2.8 Other Mechanisms
2.9 Policy Diffusion and Situating Aid Effectiveness Principles
2.10 Aid Effectiveness Principles and Development and Post-Development Literature
References
3 Aid and Agriculture Sector in Kenya: A Focus on Major Stakeholders
3.1 Small-Scale Farmers: General Perspective
3.1.1 Small-Scale Farming as an Occupation and the Food Security Objective
3.1.2 Small-Scale Farmer Organisation and the Missing Farmer “Voice”
3.2 Overview of Kenya’s Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries Development
3.2.1 The Ministry’s National Office and Donor-Funded Programmes
3.2.2 County Offices and Donor-Funded Programmes
3.3 Non-governmental Organisations and Community-Based Organisations
3.4 The Private Sector
3.5 Conclusion
References
4 Aid Effectiveness and Kenya’s Agricultural Policy and Strategy-Making Processes
4.1 Agricultural Policy Initiation Processes
4.1.1 The Ministry Bureaucracy and the Politicians
4.1.2 Input of the Policy Experts
4.1.3 The Influence of NGOs, CBOs and Farmer Organisations
4.1.4 Influence of Donors
4.2 The Essentials of Agricultural Public Policy-Making Processes
4.3 The Agriculture Sector Strategy
4.4 Conclusion
References
5 Aid Effectiveness and Perspectives and Practices of Donors
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Donors and the Kenyan Government System
5.2.1 The Case of the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA)
5.2.2 The Case of Germany’s GiZ
5.2.3 The Case of Multilateral Agencies
5.3 Donors Implementing Stand-Alone Projects with Government Partnership: The Case of Japan’s JICA
5.4 Implementing Programmes through NGOs: The Case of USAID
5.5 Donors Working with Private Sector “Trade and Economic Relationship”
5.6 Conclusion
References
6 The Aid Effectiveness Architecture and Kenya’s Agriculture Sector
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Gaps: Overall Aid Coordination
6.3 Aid Effectiveness Architecture Within the Kenyan Government
6.4 Spotlight on Coordination Efforts Among Donors
6.5 Donors and Government: The Fate of Joint Efforts in Sector Coordination
6.6 Effectiveness Structures: A Focus on Kenyan Government Agency
6.7 Conclusion
References
7 Overall Conclusion
References
Index
