THE ROLE OF DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS IN SUB-NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

Development Aid forms a critical part of planning and the subnational financing mix in the budget. They cover over 10% of planned budgetary funding across a number of States. They not only bring financing support to the table but also technical know how, experience and country wide peer review frameworks that shorten the time to learn in achieving long term outcomes The key ingredient to development effectiveness centers around how official government policies and planned outcomes align with development partners’ agenda to achieving strategy coherence and institutional learning Development partners are driving substantial reforms in the subnational space by supporting ownership in determining development priorities, aligning implementation efforts between government and development partners to achieve at a greater scale and driving harmonization of strategy through joint planning and implementation to deliver goals with an eye to subnational development as core. They also provide a stop gap solution (like financing and technical expertise) to some of the teething issues affecting subnational governments, contributing significantly to the GDP of subnational governments