What can be done to improve accountability and reporting in overseas aid programmes?
January 2009
Nicholas Stockton and Andrew Hind share their views
Nicholas Stockton, Executive director, Humanitarian Accountability Partnership International
International aid was recently back in the dock again as a result of Sorious Samura’s shocking film on the mixed performance of foreign assistance in Africa (‘Addicted to Aid’, Panorama, BBC1, 24 November 2008). The awful scenes that he found on his unannounced visit to Mulago Hospital in Uganda reminded that good intentions and lots of money do not, on their own, ensure effective development assistance.
Author: Nicholas Stockton
Executive director, Humanitarian Accountability Partnership International
Author: Andrew Hind
Andrew Hind is chief executive of the Charity Commission. He held senior roles at ActionAid and Barnado's before moving to the BBC in 1995. He was also co-founder of the Charity Finance Directors' Group
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