Localising Aid: Can using local actors strengthen them?

The Paris Agenda strongly emphasized greater use of recipient government systems in the 2000, with a primarily view to strengthening their capacity and accountability. The Paris agenda is now being reassessed for both failing to accommodate non-state actors into its purview and for applying an over-rigid set of solution that fail to take sufficiently into account the context of both recipient and donor partners.

This paper sets out a research programme to address whether the Paris Agenda approach is working, and whether an analogous approach might also be appropriate for non-state sectors.