Aid

What is Aid?

• the giving of resources by one country/organisation to another country in the form of food , healthcare or money

Why is Aid needed?

• To compensate for imbalances in development (e.g. unfair trade)
• To improve infrastructure (e.g. transport, healthcare)
• To respond to natural and human disasters (e.g. drought, genocide)

Types of Aid

• SHORT TERM
• emergency
• brings immediate hall to people
• e.g. Typhoon Haiyan
• LONG TERM
• development
• required when problems are deep rooted
• e.g. desertification of Sahel

How is Aid given?

• Bilateral - given from one country to another (sometimes comes with conditions to benefit donor country)
• Multilateral - comes from several countries through an international agency such as the World Bank
• NGO (Non Government Organisation) - funds raised through public donations used in long term projects e.g. Comic Relief

Aid received by Kenya

• Bilateral - US based NGO
• built pipelines and water kiosks - safe water supply improves health and reduces risk of disease
• trained to maintain and repair - reduces dependency on foreign involvement and cost to local communities
• Multilateral - World Food Programme (UN)
• use money to donate food - resolve famine and malnutrition problems
• provide educational programmes - improve farming techniques for sustainable future
• NGO - Send a cow
• provide animals to families to help increase wealth and food supply and improve health e.g. Cow -> breed or sell produce on market for a source of income, manure used to fertilise crops which can be sold or eaten, milk n contributes to a nutritional diet