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Wednesday, June 6, 2012

MISSION STATEMENT

Foundation for Africa Development Aid Watch is an independent not-for-profit making and non-political organisation meant to monitor, evaluate, and report on issues concerning domestic and foreign aids in Africa. FADAW shall serve as a satellite over domestic and foreign aids, and ensure that it is purely used for the right purpose. This shall be achieved through collaboration with donor institutions, appraisals and a reporting culture to stakeholders. The entity wants to ensure that donors and recipients get value for  development aids.

 According to Professor Jeffrey Sachs, the economist,” the aids system to Africa is wasteful and estimated that out of every dollar given to Africa in aid, sixteen cent goes to foreign consultants rather than to the intended, poverty stricken recipients (Published by THE TIMES Tuesday August 28, 2007).  Furthermore, the WikiLeaks Cable had revealed that millions in overseas aid to Africa was embezzled. Tens of millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money has been pocketed by their ministers and officials, much of it used to buy luxury goods (By Gordon Rayner, and Steven Swinford, the Telegraph February 05, 2011).

One could observe from the sources above that the bulk of development aids to Africa are spent on administration and leaked to private pockets. However, there is a saying that, “the testimony of a pudding is in its consumption”. It is based on this conviction that FADAW emerged to take the challenge of mediating between donors and recipients. The organisation shall promote the culture of trust and confidence between donors and recipients.