Margaret Chan Quotes
The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and the related Accra Agenda for Action, are useful policy instruments that set out the mutual responsibilities of donors and recipient countries.
Chan, Margaret. "Address to the Sixty-fourth World Health Assembly." World Health Organization, 16 May 2011.
In many cases the American contractors hire locals in the recipient country and so a large part of the contractor’s funds actually go to the country. One virtue of this is that in many countries where the money is given to government or a local organization, there is a great deal of corruption and favoritism. Clinton is right that there is an additional cost where the American contractor takes a profit and an overhead, but very often this “waste” is far less than the waste produced by the recipient government itself or a local organization. The worst of both worlds exists when the American contractor succumbs to local pressures and government “suggestions” and does not buy from the low bidder or gives jobs to people who are not as competent as others or often not competent at all.
The minute improvements taken together over time has almost always produced little or no significant or meaningful improvements. Much and often most of the donor money gets squandered on corruption, PR, and incompetence of recipient governments.
Whether or not our USAID officials are tough on a bureaucracy or a government unfortunately has had little to do with whether they had used to money for services to the poor, but how the nation voted in support of the United States in the UN and engaged in other political acts perceived by the State Department and the Administration to be favorable to the United States.
Margaret Chan Fung Fu-chun, OBE, JP, FRCP is a Chinese-Canadian physician, who served as the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) delegating the People's Republic of China for 2006–2017. Chan has previously served as Director of Health in the Hong Kong Government (1994–2003), representative of the WHO Director-General for Pandemic Influenza and WHO Assistant Director-General for Communicable Diseases (2003–2006). In 2014, Forbes ranked her as the 30th most powerful woman in the world. In early 2018 she joined the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).
