Faye, R: From recipient to partner in development aid

This book is an analysis of ‘capacity building‘ as a development strategy, and focuses on the relationship between the northern and southern participants of development aid. The author explores how the southern partners in a particular development project develop an identity as ‘recipients‘, and how this is a clear obstacle for realizing the idealistic notion of ‘partnerships‘ between northern and southern practitioners in development. This original study takes a bottom up focus by studying how the Nepalese partners in a development aid project between Nepal and Norway perceive their role as partners and how they act out and communicate their tensions and conflicts about the delivery process in development aid. This book will be useful to students seeking an introduction to development research, as well as scholars and development practitioners interested in the process of aid delivery. It also provides a model for how social science research can bring new perspectives to the understanding of the complex synergy of the cooperation between northern and southern partners in development aid.