Building State Effectiveness: Evolving Donor Approaches to Good Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa

Abstract

In 2010, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Liberia, wrote that ‘Africa’s crisis is a failure of leadership and management. Sub-Saharan Africa is rich in resources, talent, energy and spirit. But it has not been rich in leadership. It is made up of rich countries that have been poorly managed and the results have been disastrous.’ 1 The implication is that development has stalled in Africa primarily because of a failure of governance and institutions. It’s a view that an increasing number of people in the development community share, partly informed by a better understanding of the political economy of development, and a clear ‘governance turn’ can be observed over the last decade in both the rhetoric and spending priorities of the major development actors. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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