Analyzing Aid Project Strategies: Problems, Alternatives, and Examples

This report examines the effectiveness of aid projects designed to assist the poor in establishing and improving businesses. It identifies key problems associated with these strategies, such as increased dependency on donor countries, corruption, and the potential for projects to benefit service providers rather than the intended recipients. The report explores alternative strategies for poverty relief, emphasizing the importance of economic growth, international trade, and private sector development. It highlights the need for policies that promote education, skill development, and access to resources for the poor. Furthermore, the report provides examples of aid projects that are moving in this direction, such as the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) aid for trade initiatives, focusing on their approaches to private sector development, gender equity, and trade facilitation. The report concludes by emphasizing the need for comprehensive and sustainable strategies that address the root causes of poverty and promote long-term development.

Many aid projects are designed to help the
poor establish or improve a business.
What are some of the problems with
these strategies? What are some
alternatives strategies for poverty
relief? Explain one or more alternate
strategies. Are there examples of aid
projects that are moving in this
direction?

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
One of the most important and major aims of the aid is the development of goals and
objectives that help in removing poverty from the country. The main aim of the project is that
one key way through which poverty can be removed from the country is by helping poor. This
can be conducted by providing various measures through which they can earn more in labor
market. The main aim of this assignment is to lay emphasis upon the aid projects that are
designed to help the poor in establishing and improving their business, the problems associated
with these strategies and some alternative strategies.
MAIN BODY
Aid project initiates the direct participation of the donors in the implementation of the
development project. Along with the supported budget, those donors support through the
recipient governmental budget. Poverty is the major drawback of any developing country; thus,
the government and various other organisations of the country should come together and took a
step forward in removing the poverty from (Association for India's Development,2016). As they
are the ruling body of the country, they can support various kinds of the social organisations that
take initiatives in removing poverty from the country. Poverty is a huge and broad concept as it
involves various kinds of other concepts within it. Aid projects are the initiatives that are taken
by the group of the organisation who come together to fight with the major drawback of the
society. Thus, the aim of some aid project is to lay emphasis upon the refreshing private sector of
the country. The main motive of private sector companies is to make profits and that's the reason
the wages provided by them to their labour workers is very low, there should be norms which
provide guidelines that help both organisation and the employees working in it with various
kinds of the benefits (Crost, 2014).
The main reason behind poverty is lack of information, education, rights, and knowledge.
There is so much misleading information available regarding the poor people and their capacity
to labour; there are various kinds of work that can be done by the poor people other than this.
The potential and capacity of poor people are equal to the other individuals of the society. There
are a number of cases in which it has been seen that the wages provided to the labourers are not
as per their hard work and efficiency. As per the reports of the International Organisation
estimated that approximately 200 million poor people are unemployed in the world. On the other
hand, 900 million poor people who earn so less that they are unable to meet the basic needs of

the lives with their wages (Kwon, 2014). As per the collected data; in countries where income
generation is comparatively high, the number of poor people is even more in comparison to the
underdeveloped countries. The policies that are suggested with the Aid Projects is to establish
with the importance of earning more in the market.
International trade: The growth in the exports is directly connected with an increase in wage
levels, while the policies of development that lay emphasis upon the free trade, also lay emphasis
upon the increase in import, which can create unemployment in the domestic labour market.
Economic Growth: Increasing growth is the aiming aspect of the development of the country in
reduction of the poverty. The development projects which lay emphasis upon the reduction of
poverty needs to analyse the plans and policies to ensure whether these are helping poor people
in their development.
Private Sector: The aim of some aid project is to lay emphasis upon the refreshing private sector
of the country. Private companies are more concerned in making more profits for their
organisation so they never lay focus on the development of their workforce. It helps in
developing organisation along with its working unit. Benefits to both employer and employees
will help in maintaining the sustainable position (Winters, 2015).
It has been seen that poor people are less educated due to lack of resources and
availability of basic amenities, they are deprived of access to quality education. This results in
less interpersonal and technical skills. To remove poverty from the country, it is very important
to bring certain kinds of revolution in the country regarding the various aspects that directly or
indirectly affect the economic aspects of the nation. The government should provide various
measures regarding the growth and development of poor people by providing them the necessary
education that can help them in living a better life. Aid projects are the initiatives that are taken
to reduce the poverty from the country. As per the data, there are number of people who are
unemployed and are not able to manage one-time food for their families (International
Cooperation and Development, 2018).
The aid project which lay focus upon the poor who wants to establish or improve their
business, focus upon the facts and figures of the capabilities as well as the abilities of the
individual for taking the desired measures as per the requirement. However, the main aim of this
project is to recommend strategies to remove poverty in countries.

But there have been various types of aspects; one of it focuses upon the point that foreign
aid projects are very controversial regarding their success and development. According to some
reports, it has been said that these projects are ineffective and create a negative impact on the
poor countries for so many years. The impact of aid is very negative as it creates dependency,
corruption and encourages the overvaluation of the country.
On the other hand, it has been said that these projects can prove to be successful if the
organisation conduct it on some large level. The aid project which are designed to help the poor
in improving their business focus mainly on the training and development of the poor. It
provides various kinds of the information and education to them which can help them to
establish and improve their business and earn better and lead a good life. These aid projects work
to reduce the poverty from the country and to ensure the development of the poor unemployed
people.
It is on considering a realistic example of Australian Centre for International Agricultural
Research (ACIAR) which is a global leader in emerging, managing as well as assessing effective
investigation partnership in emerging nations. It thereby acts as a specialist component of
Australian Government aid policy. They are also known to have 2 chief strategic objectives for
the recipient nations. These are for the development of private sector and humans. Although,
both of these goals are closely related to each other with a long track record of ACIAR to work
with the private sector in exploring the agricultural sector (Aid program initiatives, 2018). This
involved some major considerations of extending the scope as well as base of agronomics with
more use of practical and economic data. They have together shown their interest in bringing
various inventive approaches in private sector partnerships. This has been done with a specific
concern of driving some broad economic revolution in the agricultural, forestry as well as
fisheries sector. All these undertaken measures are apparent to deliver more reasonable and
viable growth.
On considering another chief objective of ACIAR, it has been found that they are
prioritizing women as well as girls in the field of farming, health related systems and food in the
emerging nations. It is in accordance to the accepted framework of Australian aid where ACIAR
has played a significant role in prioritizing gender equity at the time of designing projects related
to such type of projects. This is to achieve the aim of developing humans and bringing
continuous change with improved policies and norms. This is to equalise the state of both men

and women and increase their right to use the services as a way of altering the beliefs and
attitudes of men’s and women’s roles. Apart from this, another vital approach led by World
Trade Organisation (WTO) aid for trade has also been found to exist as to assist the emerging
nations with a special concern of the least developed nations. This is to remove the trade as well
as supply chain related set-up hurdles that are evident to limit the capability of several firms to
participate in foreign trade measures.
It has been seen that due to lack of the resources and facilities it is very difficult for the
poor people to fulfil the basic needs and amenities of life, and thus they are insufficient in
developing their personal and interpersonal skills. The aim of some aid project is to lay emphasis
upon the refreshing private sector of the country. The main motive of private sector companies is
to bring profits and that's the reason the wages provided by them to their labours is very low,
there should be norms which provide guidelines that helps both organisation and the employees
working in it, various kinds of the benefits (Wilson, 2017).
To remove poverty from the country it is very important to bring certain kinds of
revolution in the country regarding the various aspect that directly or indirectly affect the
economic aspect of the country along with the supported budget, that donors support through the
recipient governmental budget. As per the statistics, the number of poor unemployed people are
more in the countries where the generation of income is high.
The growth in the exports is directly connected with an increase in wage levels, while on
the other hand the policies of development that lay emphasis upon the free trade, also lay
emphasis upon the increase in import, which can create unemployment in the domestic labour
market. The policies that are suggested with the Aid Projects to establish the importance of
earning more in the labour market. Poverty is the major drawback of any developing country,
the government and various organisations of the country should come together and take a step
forward in eradicating poverty from the country.
The main aim of aid project is to help poor countries by providing training and
development to them regarding the business strategies and facilities that can be used by them to
reduce poverty. There are various kinds of problems that are initiated with these aids:
 Aid projects can increase the dependency upon the donor countries, in some cases aids
are considered as the loan and liability, and it becomes difficult for the poor companies to
pay it back.

 There are various cases in which it has been seen that the aid it enables to reach the
individuals who need it the most, because of the corruption and involvement of the local
politics.
 In some cases, it creates pressure upon the poor countries.
 Some aid projects provide benefits to service provider rather than service user.
There should be some other alternatives available to reduce the poverty from the country,
in case of failure of one measure. If the government and the other organisation take continuous
measures to reduce the poverty of the country than they can reduce its rate in some effective
manner. Not only Non-government organisation and legislation but other bodies should also take
steps forward in reducing the poverty from the country (Riddell, 2016).
Poverty reduction is the measure that is taken by the country to reduce the rate of the poverty
within the country. Both economic department of the country and humanitarian department work
together to bring down the poverty from the country to ensure its growth and development,
various types of measures are taken by them to make the country developed, poverty reduction is
the measure of the overall economic growth of the country, but there are some that occurred with
these strategies. The main reason behind poverty is less of education and orientation in the
countries. The challenges that these strategies face:
 Less involvement of governmental bodies
 Less involvement of higher authorities of the country
 Often people want to make profits from such programs
 The number of poor people is more than the expectation of the organisations
 Lack of education.
Reducing poverty is not something which can be implemented overnight, it requires lots
of study and evaluation so that proper steps can help in reducing poverty from the country. The
problems associated with it is due to its critical nature which there might not be substantial
reports and statistics available which can provide complete information regarding the number of
poor people present in the world and how many of them are unemployed and requires skills to
conduct the business etc., some measures like providing education, information, impacting
knowledge can be implemented by the government so that it can create some kind of positive
impact upon their lives. Poverty is major drawback of the developing countries and it has been

seen that countries with high-income rate has more poor people than other countries. The main
reason behind poverty is lack of information, education, rights and knowledge. There is so much
misleading information available regarding the poor people and their capacities, there are various
kinds of work that can be done by the poor people other than this. As their capacity and potential
is as equal to anyone else. There are many cases where poor people get a good amount of work
but in return receive very fewer wages, this is also one of the reason behind poverty. It is
because of the lack of strategical plans and policies constructed by the government, assistance of
the government and involvement of second-tier institutions can help the countries in reducing the
rate of poverty, as there are number of measures which can be taken by the government in order
to reduce the poverty rate.
There are various kind of alternative approaches which can be taken to reduce the rate of
poverty in the country (Riddell, 2014).
Human Rights-Based Approach: A human right is the point of view which see poverty as the
factors which affect the rights of the individual and create negative emphasis on their strengths
and capabilities. Human right is the approach which create emphasis upon the multipurpose
approach reducing poverty, the policies of the human resource department states that effective
reduction of the poverty is not possible without the empowerment of the poor. The human rights
are the approach which is based upon the commitment to provide a life to the individuals which
is full of resources and possibilities. Human rights approaches are the measures that helps the
poor and all the other people of the society to protect their rights from being hammered by the
higher people in the society.
Equalities Based Approach: This is the approach which lay focus upon the protected aspects of
gender, race, disability, age, religion, belief etc., this is the different approach in comparison to
all the other approaches of reducing poverty. This is the different aspect as it covers the various
area which are related to the aspect of poverty. Humanitarian Assistance Aid Project, Military
Aid Project, school meals aid etc., are some example of aid projects. These projects are very
successful in reaching towards their goals and objectives. These measures state that there should
not be any kind of discrimination occurring in the society at any level, all the people of the
country are same and there should not be any kind of discrimination based on caste, culture,
race, religion or gender etc., the growth and development of poor people that comes into light
shows the success of these acts in the society (Milner, 2016).

CONCLUSION
From the above report it can be concluded that poverty is the major drawback of the
developing and developed country. The main reason behind the poverty is lack of education,
knowledge and information. It has been also seen that various types of the aids are available to
provide help to the poor. Some are successful in reaching towards their goals and objectives
while others are insufficient in meeting the requirement. Lastly, the report concludes information
regarding the availability of alternative strategies that can prove to be successful in removing
poverty from the country and to ensure the growth and development of the poor people.

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