ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the donor coordination and aid proliferation situation in the EAC. It starts by elaborating how the EU and its member states finance different regional projects in different sectors of integration. This part shows projects and programmes financed by the EU and its member states can overlap with each other in different channels of regionalism support. The chapter then assesses the level of donor coordination in financing of those projects and shows how European initiatives are partially coordinated. In this section, an analysis of how the EU is not regarded as a coordinating actor in the region is provided. This is due to lack of full integration of European initiatives in their engagement with the EAC. The chapter goes on to examine the challenges that face EAC bureaucrats due to the lack of full coordination of European regional aid initiatives and concludes by providing an analysis of the lessons learned in the case of Europe's support to the EAC.
