| dc.description.abstract | The purpose of this paper is to examine the possibility of forging a complementary
role between the state and the voluntary sector as an alternative framework
for enhancing African development, given that none of these actors have proved
effective on their own. Using a study of community-based organisations (CBOs)
– as a component part of the voluntary sector – in Western Kenya, it is argued
that though these organisations have been instrumental in providing services
that the state has been unable to provide, their effectiveness has been impeded
by some deficiencies. It is pointed out that such deficiencies in CBOs should
form the basis for bringing back the state in the development process and have
it forge synergies with these organisations rather than co-opting them into its
machinery, as has been the case in the past. | en_US |
