How are development projects selected? The case of the UNDP in Uganda and Tanzania

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Title:	How are development projects selected? The case of the UNDP in Uganda and Tanzania
Author:	Gitelson, Susan Aurelia
Year:	1972
Periodical:	The African Review: A Journal of African Politics, Development and International Affairs
Volume:	2
Issue:	2
Pages:	365-379
Language:	English
Geographic terms:	Uganda Tanzania
Subjects:	UN economic aid
Abstract:	Concentrating on the United Nations Development Programme Special Fund Projects for Tanzania and Uganda an attempt is made to assess the interaction between politicians and civil servants of the recipient governments and officials of aid agencies in select-ing projects to be executed with external assistance. Some questions examined: Are people in the UNDP system really this impartial and altruistic when it comes to developing countries or do their own institutional and career interests seriously affect the types and quality of assistance they offer? Are they really as responsive to the needs of the new states in practice as they are supposed to be? In viev of the potentialities and limitations of UN and other external assistance, to what extent have the indigenous political leaders been trying to determine the selection of development projects in conformity with their own development goals? Notes, table.