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[Diplomacy] India’s global aid agency : Development Partnership Administration

This Article is written by Varoon Bakshi.

What is Development Partnership Administration?
Functions
What type of Aid?

What is Development Partnership Administration?

India has set up this global aid agency along the lines of USAID and Britain’s Dept of International Development.
The new agency is called the Development Partnership Administration.
It is basically a division under the control of the MEA.
It has a corpus of 15 billion US Dollars, money to be spent in the next 5 years.

Functions

The agency will oversee all development partnership projects that India will undertake in developing and underdeveloped nations around the world. Main aim is to streamline implementation of projects.
The organisation does not consider itself a donor, it considers itself as an organisation which enters into development partnerships because various development experiences between nations can be shared on such a platform.

What type of Aid?

More than 60 countries benefit from Indian sponsored projects. India’s efforts in providing aid to other nations: -
(1) Post-war reconstruction projects in Sri Lanka
(2) Bhutan is biggest recipient of Indian aid (Rs 1,330 cr in 2010-11) for hydroelectric power projects
(3) Road connectivity projects with Myanmar, which will connect the India's Mizoram with the Myanmar port of Sittwe.
(4) Development projects in Afghanistan including recent plans to export more than 1.5 lakh tonnes of wheat to it and a promise of 2 Billion Dollars of loan assistance to Afghanistan
(5) 1 Billion Dollar line of credit to Bangladesh
India gives loans, credit, and provides manpower training to foreign nations under the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation Programme (ITEC)

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