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.
