African Experience in the Application of the Development Aid Effectiveness Principles: The Case of Kenya

Acknowledgements
Contents
Abbreviations
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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