WORLD BANK (IBRD)
US aid to Senegal : its impact on agricultural and rural development
A.I.D.'s direct agricultural assistance to Senegal (which dates mostly from the mid- and late 1970's) generally has not met its objectives of increasing crop or animal production, but the Agency's more recent initiatives in policy reform and nonproject assistance have benefited the rural sector by contributing to liberalized agricultural marketing and pricing, credit restructuring, and reductions in government debt.
Jaeger, William K. · 1987
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Abstract
Thus concludes this review of A.I.D's impact in rural Senegal from 1961 through the present. The review examines A.I.D.'s program in Senegal (volume, content, sectoral distribution) in some detail, explains A.I.D's assistance strategies, and then analyzes six specific agricultural projects which, taken together, constitute nearly half of all A.I.D. obligations to Senegal between 1975-84. The author notes that project aid to Senegal has often exceeded the country's limited absorptive capacity and that A.I.D. has sometimes been slow to learn from its projects' failures. Other problems have include unrealistic designs, inadequate monitoring, and the A.I.D. bureaucracy (high staff turnover and an emphasis on funding levels rather than project success). Finally, while nonproject assistance to promote policy reform can have long-term impacts, it cannot form the basis of a long-term development strategy.
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