THE IMPLICATIONS OF DEVELOPMENTAL AID ON POVERTY REDUCTION IN CAMEROON. CASESTUDY: THE RUMPI AREA PROJECT OF THE SOUTH WEST REGION CAMEROON
- 발행기관 아주대학교
- 발행년도 2011
- 제출일 2011-06-22
- 학위수여년월 2011. 8
- 학위명 석사
- 학과 국제대학원 NGO학과
- 실제URI http://www.dcollection.net/handler/ajou/000000011731
- 본문언어 영어
- 저작권 아주대학교 논문은 저작권에 의해 보호받습니다.
초록/요약
As the fight against global extreme poverty prevails even after 50 years, it is still empirically difficult to show case whether or not things are getting better. Thus, facing extreme poverty via pumping billions of US dollars in the form of foreign aid, continuous to weather massive critisms. While some economists have used models to justify the existence of a financial gap between production levels and foreign exchange earnings, indicating the availability of limited resources for investment which can only be solved by foreign aids, others rather find it difficult to see any possible nexus between poverty trap and development. Cameroon with her numerous resources still depends on foreign aid while the rate of poverty is still high. Thus, even though historical evidence gives impetus on developmental aid’s role through the top down approach to development as a spring board uplifting states from the doldrums of poverty impasse, one still finds it very difficult to draw a substantial balance between developmental aid and poverty reduction. Against this back drop of controversy therefore, I find it apt to put Cameroon on a scale balance. Thus, the purpose of this research is to critically assess the implications of developmental aid on poverty reduction in Cameroon, using the RUMPI Area Development Project in the South West Region of Cameroon as a case study. It will go a long way to situate and contextualize the top down and bottom up approaches to development within the basis of a Cameroonian perspective, using the Sachs-Easterly debate. The RUMPI Project was introduced with the objective of improving agriculture, empowering the rural woman and thus fighting poverty within the South West Region of Cameroon. Despite its critisms based on corruption, political pressure and limited use of local and grass root partnership to development, the study in assessing these failures also try to outline vital ways in which the project can be improved upon.
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DEDICATION iii
ABSTRACT iv
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS v
ACRONYMS vi
CHAPTER ONE: RESEARCH PURPOSE AND NECESSITY
1.1: INTRODUCTION 1
1.2: PROBLEM STATEMENT 3
1.3 HYPOTHESIS OF THE STUDY 3
1.4: RESEARCH OBJECTIVES 3
1.5: SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDY 3
1.6: RESEARCH QUESTIONS 4
1.7: THEORETICAL BACK GROUND 4
1.8: RESEARCH METHODS AND CONTENT 4
1.9 CHAPTER OUT LINE 5
CHAPTER TWO: THEORETICAL FRAME WORK AND LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 SACHS-EASTERLY DEBATE 6
2.2: DEVLOPMENTAL AID AND ITS IMPACT ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 8
2.3: CONCLUSION 12
CHAPTER THREE: HISTORICAL EVOLUTION AND LEVEL OF DEVELOPMENTAL AID IN CAMEROON
3.1: BACK GROUND INFORMATION AND AREA OF STUDY: SOUTH WEST REGION OF CAMEROON 14
3.2: IMPORTANT FACTS ON DEVELOPMENTAL AID IN CAMEROON (TOP DOWN 14
3.3: PROFILE OF AID FLOW TO CAMEROON 15
3.3.1: COUNTRIES AND AID FLOWS TO CAMEROON 17
3.3.2: INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND DISTRIBUTION OF EXTERNAL DEBT
STOCK TO CAMEROON 18
3.4: CAMEROON’S POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (PRSP 21
3.4.1: KEY STRATEGIC AREAS OF THE CAMEROON’S PRSP 23
3.4.2: PARTICIPATION OF NATIONAL ACTORS IN THE FORMULATION AND IMPLIME-
NTATION OF THE PRSP 25
3.4.3: FUNCTIONALITIES OF THE PRSP 26
3.4.4: CONCLUSION 27
CHAPTER FOUR: DATA ANALYSIS AND IMPACT
4.1: PRESENTATION OF DATA AND ANALYSIS 28
4.2: CONCLUSION 32
CHAPTER FIVE: CASE STUDY: ASSESSING THE RUMPI PROJECT (BOTTOM-UP MODEL)
5.1: IMPORTANCE OF THE ROLE OF NGOs AND THEIR DEVELOPMENT APPROCHES AT
THE LOCAL LEVEL 33
5.2: FACTORS FAVORING THE ROLE OF NGOs AT THE LOCAL LEVEL IN CAMEROON 35
5.3: CASE STUDY: RUMPI PROJECT 2005-2010 36
5.3.1: PROJECT DESCRIPTION 36
5.3.2: PROJECT FORMULATION 37
5.3.3: PROJECT DESIGN AND PROJECT BENEFITS 37
5.4: ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE RUMPI PROJECT 38
5.4.1: RUMPI AS AN EXAMPLE OF A BOTTOM-UP APPROACH 38
5.4.2: RUMPI AND LOCAL PARTNERSHIP 31
5.5: OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE RUMPI PROJECT 41
5.5.1: ERD-RUMPI 41
5.5.2: CREATION OF POVERTY SCHEMES 42
5.6: ASSESSING THE RUMPI PROJECT 42
5.6.1: RUMPI VIS A VIS PARTNERSHIP 42
5.6.2: CORRUPTION 43
5.6.3: POLITICAL PRESURE 43
5.6.4: TARGETING MULTIPLE PROJECTS 43
5.7: CONCLUSION 44
CHAPTER SIX: THESIS CONCLUSION
6.1: RECOMMENDATION 46
6.2: CONCLUSION 46
REFERENCES 47-49
