Роль и место гражданского общества в системе донорской помощи для Беларуси (2006-2012)
The role and place of civil society in the donor aid system for Belarus (2006-2012)

Author(s): Alena Zuykova, Andrey Egorov
Subject(s): Civil Society, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Центр европейской трансформации
Summary/Abstract: Monitoring of foreign aid for the purpose of development for Belarus is necessary to ensure greater transparency of this process, as well as to expand the possibilities of public control over the distribution of donor aid. In recent years, many Belarusian experts, state officials and politicians have been speculating quite often on the topic of donor aid provided to Belarus. State bodies and senior officials try to present the situation in such a way that all foreign aid from foreign states and international structures is directed exclusively to the support of civil society and the democratization of the country (or, in their terminology, to the support of the "fifth column" and the "overthrow of the political regime "). Among the political opposition, there are mutual accusations of improper spending of foreign aid funds and calls for monitoring of allocated funds. Representatives of the "third sector" pay attention to the low transparency of large cooperation projects with the state and, in general, to the low involvement of civil society in the implementation of donor aid programs for Belarus. A politically active part of Internet users in social networks and forums criticizes public and political forces for senseless "eating" of grants. As a rule, all these speculations are not based on real facts and, at best, reflect personal experience of contact with any aspects of the implementation of grant projects or the activities of public and political organizations. In order to make reasonable judgments, it is necessary to rely on specific facts and real data, and it is precisely to present such information that this study was carried out.

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