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Development aid has changed dramatically over the last 5-10 years. Donors have progressively shifted away from funding individual projects that fit with the priorities they have developed.
The focus is now on much closer relationships between donors and developing country governments, usually centred on a poverty reduction strategy, and also on more harmonised relationships between donors.
In this context, much of the time and effort of aid organisations is spent trying to influence the poverty-orientation of policy, and the way in which budgets are allocated to poverty reducing measures.
ITAD has worked closely with aid programmes in Bangladesh, trying to influence resource use policies towards greater benefit to the poor, and is managing a water governance project in Nigeria which works with a range of stakeholders to influence government policy and investment in this sector. ITAD has also undertaken a lesson-learning study for DFID on how multi-national corporations influence policy.
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