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Harris, Jamelia (2023) Exploring donor-driven skills development as a channel of continued aid dependency. Third World Quarterly, 44 (6). pp. 1249-1268. doi:10.1080/01436597.2023.2178889 ISSN 0143-6597.
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2023.2178889
Abstract
This article examines donor-driven skills training programmes and projects at the technical and vocational level in post-war Sierra Leone, using dependency theory as an analytical framework. Based on qualitative data collected from fieldwork in 2017, it emerges that such programmes and projects are driven by donor strategies and largely detached from local market demands, are oftentimes based on convenience and historical relationships in regions/sectors rather than evolving needs of the country, promise employment but instead deliver informal self-employment and focus heavily on outputs rather than outcomes. From these empirical observations, it can be argued that donor-driven skills development, as it has manifested in Sierra Leone, is unlikely to create skills that can meaningfully contribute to national growth and development. Instead, these interventions may drive outcomes that lead to continued aid dependency. The article thus presents a renewed argument for skills for self-reliant development.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HF Commerce |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Institute for Employment Research | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Occupational training -- Sierra Leone, Employees -- Training of -- Sierra Leone, Training needs -- Sierra Leone, Economic assistance -- Sierra Leone, Employability -- Sierra Leone | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Third World Quarterly | ||||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
ISSN: | 0143-6597 | ||||||
Official Date: | 28 February 2023 | ||||||
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Volume: | 44 | ||||||
Number: | 6 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 1249-1268 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/01436597.2023.2178889 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 16 March 2023 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 17 March 2023 | ||||||
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