The UK deals in grants, though is rumoured to be thinking about setting up a bilateral development bank to move into loans as well.
International, regional and bilateral donors and development banks have catered to Haiti's predatory political, economic, religious and academic elites and their profitable private school business.
The planning process began with a comprehensive situational analysis of the health sector involving both local planners and international actors (multi-laterals, development banks, bilateral donors and NGOs).
Both sets of interviews included equal representatives of key partners in the health sector: bilateral and multilateral institutions, development banks, international NGOs and government staff working at central and aimag (province) levels.
The partnership, established in 2002, is made up of developing countries, bilateral, regional, and international agencies, development banks, the private sector, teachers, and local and global civil society groups.
As things stand, more than 30 national embassies and bilateral development agencies, several United Nations agencies, four development banks and international financial institutions, and about 2,000 nongovernmental organizations and contractors are involved in rebuilding in Afghanistan.
The Asian Development Bank advocates an Asian Infrastructure Fund, capitalized by governments, sovereign wealth funds, multilateral development banks and bilateral agencies that would mobilize the region's vast domestic savings.
"This staggering sum will come from a variety of sources, such as public-private partnerships, pension funds, bilateral aid and the major development banks.
The polio eradication coalition includes governments of countries affected by polio; private sector foundations (United Nations Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation); development banks (World Bank); bilateral donor governments; the European Commission; the International Red Cross and Red Crescent societies and nongovernmental organizations as well as corporate partners.
The World Bank, regional development banks, large bilateral funders and other UN agencies can contract legal expertise as required, yet none appear to have yet recognised the scale of need that would arise if countries seek to implement the Global Action Plan in the spirit that advocates are hoping for.
