Only by understanding how and why the aid and development industry came to be can we get to a place of meaningful recommendations about what needs to be done to build a more sustainable and locally contextual civil society. We can either understand ‘aid as interests’ or ‘aid as power’. Either categorization highlights the lasting dynamics between aid and the recipients. Over the years, aid has evolved as focused support aid in form of budget controls and assistance to project-based and sectoral interventions. Read more
