Aid and entrepreneurship in Tanzania : the Norwegian Development Agency's contribution to entrepreneurial mobilization in the public sector in Tanzania

This study examines how Norwegian aid to Tanzania has functioned on one of its prime goals: the mobilization of entrepreneurial capacity in the country. The author analyses how the Norwegian aid agency NORAD, through its assistance to five large projects, affected the recipient projects, organizations and public institutions. The purpose is to develop a description of how public assistance channeled through donor agencies in Tanzania, affects the professional competence and the autonomy of the aid projects and their responsible government institutions. The study is based on interviews and registration of data from aid administrators engaged either within the NORAD aided projects or in public administration at the regional or national level engaged in the management and control of the NORAD aided projects. (DÜI-Hff)