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A Case Study on the Evaluation of International Agricultural Cooperation Project in Africa: A way to break away from ‘No Money, No Action’

The purpose of this study is to contribute to enhancing the sustainability of international development cooperation projects. Notably, this study suggests ways to strengthen the sustainability of agricultural cooperation projects by adjusting a principal-agent relationship, which has been restricted to the project cycle. To do so, it describes the agricultural technology dissemination projects in Africa and evaluates them through in-depth interviews with the final beneficiaries in Malawi and Zimbabwe. As a result, the target group was observed to ameliorate the principal-agent problem. The participants had begun to act directly as principals of the development project using a resident-driven or government-led method. This research proposes that the activities and effectiveness of international cooperation projects could continue by changing the role of participants into principals of the project at the end of the project.