Creating and maintaining a new government after over a decade of war comes with certain tradeoffs.
In Afghanistan, finding the right balance between pushing money through government ministries and ensuring that foreign aid actually achieves important development objectives is “more art than science,” according to U.S. Agency for International Development Assistant Administrator Larry Sampler.
In an exclusive interview with Devex, Sampler shared how his office has been compelled to permit some “degradation of pure effectiveness” that comes with host government capacity building.