Aid relations and state reforms in the democratic republic of the congo : the politics of mutual accommodation and administrative neglect / by Stylianos Moshonas.

By: Moshonas, Stylianos [author.]Contributor(s): Taylor and FrancisMaterial type: TextTextSeries: African governance: Publisher: Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, 2018Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (218 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781315150109Subject(s): Economic assistance -- Congo (Democratic Republic) | Economic assistance | Politics and government | Public administration -- Congo (Democratic Republic) | Public administration | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General | POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General | POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African | Aid Africa | Aid Congo | Congo Politics | DRC politics | Economic assistance -- Congo (Democratic Republic) | Public administration -- Congo (Democratic Republic) | Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Politics and government -- 1997-Additional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification: 338.96751 LOC classification: HC955 | .M68 2018Online resources: Click here to view.
Contents:
chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Framing Congo’s aid relations -- chapter 2 The DRC and its foreign partners since donor re-engagement -- chapter 3 Politics and administration in Congo-Zaire in historical perspective -- chapter 4 The politics of administrative reform (2001–2011) -- chapter 5 Looking beyond reform failure in aid relations.
Abstract: Since 2001 The Democratic Republic of Congo has been engaged in a three-fold transition process towards liberalisation, democratisation, and peace. Throughout this process, external actors (donors, international financial institutions, the UN system, aid agencies) have played a leading role, effectively setting the orientations and modalities of this transition, including their institutional dimension. Congolese actors have not been passively subjected to this process, however, but have potently shaped it in various ways. This book investigates the relationship between international aid partners and various Congolese actors since 2001. It examines this relationship as an aspect of the state reform process, with particular reference to the administration. Stylianos Moshonas argues that the pace and nature of reform has been compromised by the contradictions inherent within the process itself, as advocated by international partners, and by the ability of Congolese power holders to accommodate and co-opt such reforms in line with their own political strategies. Rather than framing aid relations as the outcome of the oppositional points of view of donors and Congolese actors, this book presents a systematic focus on the compromises and accommodative characteristics that aid politics have coalesced around, as well as the contradictory positions donors have found themselves inches.
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chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Framing Congo’s aid relations -- chapter 2 The DRC and its foreign partners since donor re-engagement -- chapter 3 Politics and administration in Congo-Zaire in historical perspective -- chapter 4 The politics of administrative reform (2001–2011) -- chapter 5 Looking beyond reform failure in aid relations.

Since 2001 The Democratic Republic of Congo has been engaged in a three-fold transition process towards liberalisation, democratisation, and peace. Throughout this process, external actors (donors, international financial institutions, the UN system, aid agencies) have played a leading role, effectively setting the orientations and modalities of this transition, including their institutional dimension. Congolese actors have not been passively subjected to this process, however, but have potently shaped it in various ways. This book investigates the relationship between international aid partners and various Congolese actors since 2001. It examines this relationship as an aspect of the state reform process, with particular reference to the administration. Stylianos Moshonas argues that the pace and nature of reform has been compromised by the contradictions inherent within the process itself, as advocated by international partners, and by the ability of Congolese power holders to accommodate and co-opt such reforms in line with their own political strategies. Rather than framing aid relations as the outcome of the oppositional points of view of donors and Congolese actors, this book presents a systematic focus on the compromises and accommodative characteristics that aid politics have coalesced around, as well as the contradictory positions donors have found themselves inches.

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