ECAS 2009
3rd European Conference on African Studies
Leipzig, 4 to 7 June 2009

Panel 30: Aid (in)efficiency and challenges to state rehabilitation (Tom De Herdt)

Panel Organiser: Tom De Herdt

The objective of the panel is to analyze how in the context of ostensible state failure, governments, administrations, and other state structures function and dysfunction at the same time. This panel is particularly interested in how aid interventions are instrumentalised by national governments and local populations in the perspective of state rehabilitation.

Accepted Abstracts

Imported accountability and local legitimization: principles and practices in the education sector in the DRCongo
How the state is (not) supporting Urban vegetable production in DRC
 
The politics of mobilizing farmers for development in Tigray, Ethiopia
The education sector in the D.R. Congo and the instrumentalisation of hierarchical power.