Ethiopia: Retaining Sovereignty in Aid Relations

Abstract

Abstract When Ethiopia first entered into relations with donors in the 1950s, it did so as a sovereign state “ one that had been established, in varying forms, for several hundred years “ with its own domestic governance structures.2 In this respect it was quite unlike most other aid-recipient countries, which began receiving aid upon independence in the mid-1960s, in a context of weak domestic policy-setting structures, and almost as an extension of colonial/mother-country relations. One of the implications is that the act of entering into relations with aid donors tended to be seen by Ethiopians at the time, and still is, as a meeting of equals.

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