Publication

This paper analyzes aid support in institution-building in Somalia. The author states that despite that fact that large quantities of institution-building aid have been spent in Somalia, the country remains the ‘most failed state’ and that this could suggest that this aid has been a failure. However, he also argues that there have been successful cases of aid supported institution-building in the Somali-inhabited eastern Horn of Africa. Furthermore, he contends that these cases can provide lessons about how local communities in failed states can establish governance arrangements as well as how external actors can support them.