Providing sufficient long-term development assistance

Offering adequate long-term development aid

Description

Providing sufficient long-term development assistance involves delivering sustained financial, technical, and capacity-building support to countries or communities in need. The core action is to address root causes of poverty and underdevelopment by enabling self-sufficiency, strengthening institutions, and fostering economic resilience. This strategy remedies short-term aid dependency, supports infrastructure and education, and ensures that progress is durable, empowering recipients to achieve lasting improvements in health, livelihoods, and governance.

Implementation

The Municipal Development Programme for Sub-Saharan Africa is a multi-funded facility committed to an alternative model of development assistance dedicated to building institutional effectiveness in local government institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa. It makes available to African institutions resources and advice to conduct activities in: policy studies and policy advocacy, including investigation of key decentralization issues and local municipal governance; human resource development activities, including support for training institutions and formulation of training strategies; support to municipalities, including fostering of new approaches to development planning and effective service delivery; strengthening of local authority associations.