Report – Primary Education in Zambia

Since the mid 1990s, development agencies, including the Netherlands, started to move from project aid towards sector and general budget support. These new aid modalities emerged because of the perception that the project approach was no longer efficient or effective, due to fragmentation and a lack of coordination, ownership and sustainability. It was felt that pooling funds would be more effective, and that cooperating with existing ministerial institutions would strengthen local capacity and thus make development more sustainable.