Both of these findings indicate openings for further research as well as the need for officials and development actors in Ethiopia and in Western countries to better understand the intersection between homeland politics and diaspora mobilization along identity lines.
Tomy however is sceptical of what he sees as the role of development actors in helping farmers like FTAK.
These two bilateral donors confirm the assumption that many bilateral donors have long-standing relationships with their home-country development actors as the main intermediaries for funds to support development.
The Typhoon Emergency Nutrition Cluster, which is composed of government agencies and such development actors as United Nations agencies and NGOs, estimates that 67,000 children under 5 years old are at risk of malnutrition.
Luca Etter, program manager - private sector and development finance, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Bern, Switzerland @LucaEtter Both at Addis and at the signing of the SDGs last year, the private sector was identified as a development actor much more explicitly than previously.
In these contexts, the comparative advantage of the United Nations as a development actor was demonstrated.
"It is extraordinary that CDC, which is effectively the investment arm of DfID, is using tax havens … CDC and DfID have a moral duty to adopt the highest ethical standards if they are to have moral authority as the UK's leading development actors," he said.
The reasons for this can be found in strong relationships to home-country non-state development actors such as grant recipients and in problems with finding suitable partners in the project country.
LILONGWE, Malawi, 10 February 2014 – The rights of people living with disabilities, especially intellectual disabilities, received a boost today at the conclusion of the first ever African Leaders Forum on Disability, as government, civil society and development actors committed to challenge stigma and inequity by seeking their inclusion in the continent's development agenda.
"Development actors should not, therefore, see blending as a '[magic] bullet'," the report concluded.
