African Civil Society Leaders Gather in Accra to Overhaul Development Aid Model

Aid system is broken, African Civil Society leaders say; 200 gather in Accra to build a new Africa-Led model

For decades, development money in Africa has arrived with its own instructions: what to fix, how to fix it, and who should do the work. Now a small but growing movement is asking a different question: what if the people receiving the money wrote the brief?

By Caleb Ahinakwah