ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a counter viewpoint of the relationship between expert and counterpart based on an analysis of the process of technical assistance. It discusses all the steps taken from project initiation through implementation and evaluation, including negotiating technical assistance agreements. Discussions of foreign aid, technical assistance, and the counterpart system, are presented in terms of the relations between the industrialized West and Third World countries. For decades, AID provided technical assistance for various areas of public administration and administrative development activities in governments of developing countries. The expert-counterpart relationship has meaning only when we truly understand its larger context: the process of technical assistance. A great deal of technical assistance is conducted under agreements between the United Nations and developing countries. International technical assistance agreements are rid, to a large extent, of the self-serving interests of one country dictating to the other.
