ABSTRACT
This chapter explains how donor coordination and aid proliferation will be analysed. Since European countries are supporting integration in an uncoordinated manner, through their bilateral channels as well as via the EU, this is expected to cause challenges related to aid proliferation in the EAC. The chapter starts by defining regional aid and how it can be channelled to different sectors and areas of integration. It then goes on to explain how donor coordination can occur within regional aid, especially when development partners are interested in supporting similar sectors of integration. In this section, the EU actorness debate is introduced with the aim of assessing whether the EU can be regarded as an aid-coordinating actor in the region, given the fact that its member states also employ their own bilateral strategies to support integration. The chapter also describes how aid proliferation might be caused by European countries as a result of using different channels to support integration, thereby causing various challenges to EAC bureaucrats. At the end of the chapter, information on how donor coordination and proliferation will be analysed is provided.
