USAID supports CSO with $1m

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• Shamu 12 years ago

  When things happened like this, is like Giving cattle rearing farm to crocodile to keep for you. I hope they will fulfill the good done by the US government. These are areas of Ghana prone to heavy corruption.

  When things happened like this, is like Giving cattle rearing farm to crocodile to keep for you. I hope they will fulfill the good done by the US government. These are areas of Ghana prone to heavy corruption.

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• Kobby 12 years ago

  Well done USAID! I hope the beneficiaries will use this money to good use instead of squandering it.

  Well done USAID! I hope the beneficiaries will use this money to good use instead of squandering it.

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• American 12 years ago

  This is exactly what I detest about aid from the US and the West: the money is donated entirely for propaganda political purposes. The Communists of the old days weren't so bald.
  
  From the article: "The money is expected to ...
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  This is exactly what I detest about aid from the US and the West: the money is donated entirely for propaganda political purposes. The Communists of the old days weren't so bald.
  
  From the article: "The money is expected to be used to undertake advocacy work to increase awareness and participation of the citizenry in local governance."
  
  Does Ghana not already have an extensively developed political system? Does it not already have
  higher voter participation rates than any federal state of the US?
  
  But let's talk about the small grants. "Women empowerment" does not mean anything as concrete as, say, more women's health clinics. "Youth development" doesn't mean technical institutions, or providing expertise on where to build new factories to reduce youth unemployment. No, these grants won't facilitate any of this, nor were ever meant to.
  
  This is just another way for a DC-NW based outfit to publish another
  glossy report on "spreading democracy," and, in the meanwhile,
  dump their unpaid interns into a deprived third world environment to add another bullet point to their resumes.

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