ABSTRACT
Since the late 1990s, a development cooperation trend has emerged among
donors calling for partnership between donors and facilitating program-
matic leadership and ownership by the countries receiving aid. This trend
came as a response to the failure of development aid to reduce poverty. The
new paradigm has two main assumptions. The first assumption is that aid
has a better chance to succeed when approaches among donors and between
donors and recipients are integrated. The second assumption is that reci-
pient leadership and ownership is necessary to implement changes on the ground. To put this paradigm into practice, development agencies devel-
oped integrative frameworks such as the World Bank’s Comprehensive
Development Framework (CDF) and the United Nations Development
Assistance Framework (UNDAF).
