EFFECTIVE DONOR’S ACTIVITIES AND THE PROBLEMS OF CORRUPT ENVIRONMENT IN DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE: A CASE STUDY OF SELECTED AID AGENCIES IN NIGERIA

The paper examines the issue of corrupt national development environment as key incentive to donor effectiveness or otherwise in development assistance. With selected samples of development aids organizations, the study examines the responses of aids organizations to Nigerian corrupt development environment and how corrupt environment has affected donors’ incentives for effective Nigerian development activities. It is discovered that the corrupt development environment impacts heavily on development assistance while the study indicates that the Nigerian corrupt environment is a major disincentive to donor effectiveness in Nigerian development assistance activities. The paper concludes by advocating efforts to rid Nigeria of corrupt tendencies so that development assistance can make desirable impact in Nigeria development efforts.