Abstract
This paper presents a research into the relationships between the agencies participating in developing projects, taking as a case study an acuaculture project in Bangladesh. The roots of the present case study, can be traced back to research undertaken during 1990-92 by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), which investigated government and nongovernmental organisation (NGO) linkages during efforts to promote technical change in the agricultural sector using case studies collected in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The research concluded that while collaboration between NGOs and government agencies was certainly taking place and in many cases generating potentially useful new approaches and insights, there was no straightforward “functional” division of agency roles. On the other hand, the social, political and historical contextual factors in different countries were crucial determinants of link-age effectiveness.
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