The Role of Donors

• Author: Havelock Brewster
• Profession: Professor
• Pages: 240-242

240 CSME: Genesis and Prognosis

Chapter IV: Prioritization Action Plan and the Role of Donors

(A) The Role of Donors

CARICOM has been the beneficiary of substantial assistance from a

variety of external donor agencies – UNDP, CIDA, IDB, CDB, USAID, EU/

EDF, Japan, World Bank, GEF, US, GTZ, JEYTAD, Mexico, CFTC, UNESCO,

DFID. The list of CSME-related donor funded programmes/projects set out

in Table VI-2 is impressive. These contributions have played a significant

role in complementing Community resources and helping to advance the

implementation of the CSME.

An evaluation of external donor support to CARICOM was beyond the

scope of this project; nor was it required by its terms of reference. The

Consultants were nevertheless asked to address the question of the role of

donors. This is a pertinent question if it is assumed that continued assistance

is vital to taking the CSME process forward, and that it could be decisive in

getting the Community to the point of crossing the implementation threshold

in respect of many high-priority initiatives.

The role of donors thus had to be considered without the benefit of

evaluations, either by the CCS or donor agencies, of past and ongoing

programmes of assistance. Nevertheless, the matter was discussed extensively

with CCS staff and other CARICOM interlocutors. The Consultants also did

not have the benefit of the views of the donor agencies themselves involved

in this exercise, DFID and CDB, or of others on their role as donors. The

consensus among our CARICOM interlocutors was that donor agencies are

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Professor Havelock Brewster - CARICOM Single

Market And Economy: Assessment of the Region’s

Support Needs1

THE ROLE OF DONORS