Adventures in the Aid Trade Forty Years Practising Development in Forty Countries

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Preface

Foreword by Robert Chambers

Introduction

1. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Street Children 1966-69:Trying Hard to Keep a Welfare Institution Going
2. Maun, Botswana 1970-1972: Making Technical Education Pay for Itself (1970-72)
3. South Sudan 1973-1975: Reconstructing the Country in its one Short Period of Peace
4. LSE and Patchwork Community 1970-1976: Keeping in Touch with the UK
5. Dominica, West Indies 1976-78: Demanding Assistance from the State or the Joys of Self-Help
6. South Pacific 1979-1980: Appropriate Technology (AT), Ideologues and Small Gains
7. Java, Indonesia 1979-1984: More AT Ideologues, and People’s Technology
8. The Far East of Indonesia 1979-1984: OXFAM, Famine in East Timor and the Amazing Growth of Leucena Leucophelae in NTT
9. Positive Deviance 1980-81 and 1984-1985: Nutrition in Indonesia and Rice-Fish Farming in NE Thailand
10. Bangladesh 1989-1995: NGOs, CSOs, Dependence on Aid and Independence from Aid
11. Zambia 1995-1999: Moving into Advocacy from Service Delivery
12. CSOs Everywhere (1990 to the Present): Trying Fund Raising and Resource Mobilisation not Donor Dependence
13. Indonesia 1999-2004: Never Again, neither Suharto nor his Corruption
14. East Timor 2002-2004: Moving from Relief and Human Rights to Development and Civil Rights
15. Tajikistan 2005-2010: Persuading Ex-Apparatchiks that Citizens can do Good Without the State
16. Different Countries of Africa 2005-2010: Building Integrity and CSO Standards as an Alternative to Fighting Corruption
17. Nepal 2011-2013: The Birth of Social Accountability, Digging Down into Corruption, and Half-Hearted Efforts to Control It.
18. Myanmar 2015-16: Watching a Country Become Aid Dependent, and Doing Nothing about Corruption
19. East Africa 2018-2019: Social Accountability Neutered by Corruption.
20. Reflections: Bringing it all Together

Index

Biography

Richard Holloway is an international development professional with more than 40 years’ experience managing social development projects and programmes in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the South Pacific. He has extensive experience of working with non-state and state actors to strengthen processes of citizen–state engagement, and over 20 years’ experience of implementing and managing large donor-funded projects (USAID, DFID, UNDP, EU, World Bank). He is currently an independent consultant after many years as a long-term project manager. His notable books are Beyond NGOs: CSOs with Development Impact, Doing Development: Governments, CSOs and the Rural Poor in Asia and Towards Financial Self-Reliance: Handbook on Resource Mobilization for CSOs in the South.

"Adventures in the Aid Trade stands alone for the extraordinary range of experience and insight it presents. I know of no other book quite like it…For all who work in development or aspire to do so, it is a grounded and invaluable source of learning and inspiration. It is a rich source of ideas for how we can do better. I commend it to all development professionals, whatever their roles, as an engaging read and a fertile source of learning." -- Robert Chambers, OBE

"Adventures in the Aid Trade is at once memoir, "how-to"manual, reflexive critique, and globe trotting picaresque narrative. Full of insight, humour, and heart, Richard Holloway has produced an essential text for students, scholars, and practitioners of development alike. It is also a great read." -- Larry Swatuk, Professor at the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development, University of Waterloo, Canada