Realpolitik In Aid
Thu, Sep 19, 2024
For over 20 years an organisation called InterAid was the main implementation partner for the most significant refugee response contracts in Kampala Uganda. All public funding allocated towards Education for refugees in Kampala, for example, found its way to InterAid. They were responsible for running education programmes in urban areas such as supporting schools with funds and learning resources, identifying out-of-school children, especially primary aged children, and training teachers. The problem was that InterAid did barely anything. According to all the schools we visited the funds were not being spent on anything related to refugee education or much else related to refugees. Eventually, after well over 20 years this became a more public fact and they had all their funding cut, and soon after the organisation folded.
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