Showing posts with label DFID. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DFID. Show all posts

Monday, April 2, 2012

International Donors Find it Hard to Address Corruption in Afghanistan

Despite overwhelming evidence that a large amount of the money sent to Afghanistan for use in development and establishing governance is misused (corruption) international donors still have not instituted financial control measures so that they may "follow the money". The United Kingdom is no exception to putting the blinders on when addressing the actual end point of a great portion of its aid money (that would be Dubai). Read more in "Donors still can't talk about the c-word", International Development Department Blog of the University of Birmingham, March 23, 2012.