From aid to partnership: a joint review of Norwegian - South African development cooperation 1995-2001
2003
E.N. Tjønneland | P. Pillay
The study provides an overview and an assessment of the Norwegian development assistance to South Africa since the first democratic elections in 1994.The report finds that nearly one billion Norwegian kroner were disbursed from Norway to South Africa during the first seven years. A relatively high proportion of this aid has been channelled through Norwegian NGOs to a variety of private South African organisations. 25 percent of the aid has gone directly from the Norwegian State to the South African State.It concludes that:in some areas the Norwegian contribution has been highly relevant and effective, especially in some of the efforts to assist in developing new policies and planning institutional reform, such as in the support to the energy and fisheries sectorsthe achievements have been fewer in the Norwegian support for poverty reduction and job creationthe regional Southern African dimensions in the co-operation programmes with South Africa are small and suffer from an insufficient Norwegian strategy for assistance to regional co-operationco-operation has been entered into between South African and Norwegian institutions in most areas. The political co-operation between the two countries is also judged to be solid and strong. The commercial and private sector co-operation on the other hand, is limitedamongst the recommendations, a key proposal is the scaling up of support to regional development efforts in Southern Africa and a more systematic Norwegian support for regional co-operation
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