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Internationaldonors supporting Kenya's development strategies have increasingly tied aid to the implementation of policy and sectoral reforms. After being confronted by more than 150 required structural adjustment conditions, the Government's good rhetoric but slow response led frustrated donors in November 1991 to suspend all foreign-exchange relief, and large blocks of bilateral aid, pending substantial progress in meeting these requirements.

Africa's burgeoning public sectors generate several major constraints hampering developmental progress: (1) overcentralized governments; (2) public services that consume large amounts of scarce government budgetary resources; (3) large budget deficits; & (4) declining administrative capacity. Given the importance of these constraints, public service reform is increasingly one of the structural adjustment reforms demanded of African governments, yet few studies show how the public sector relates to these constraints or why it is so difficult to introduce reforms that effectively address them. Based on national & international data, the case of Kenya is used to illustrate these points. 4 Tables. AA

AbstractApproximately 100,000 foreign advisors work in the public sectors of Sub‐Saharan African countries at an annual cost of more than $4 billion. The numbers, range of services, and costs of such advisors increased during the 1980s while at the same time donors launched new efforts to build professional capacity in the African civil service. Based on a study of advisors and their counterpart economists in Kenya's Ministry of Planning and National Development, this article addresses three important questions: what are the functions carried out by advisors in the development ministries?; why is it so difficult to retain skilled professionals in the civil service?; and how does the provision of advisors affect the retention of skilled government officers?

Der Beitrag basiert auf Daten aus Kenia. Die daraus abgeleiteten Vorhersagen zur Rolle ausländischer Fachleute im dortigen "Ministry of Planning and National Development"(MPND) und ihrer Ersetzung durch kenianische Fachleute können nur sehr bedingt auf andere schwarzafrikanische Staaten übertragen werden. Jedoch sind auch andere afrikanische Regierungen mit der Grundproblematik konfrontiert. Die wachsende Zahl ausländischer Experten und die damit verbundenen enormen Kosten haben weiter zugenommen, obwohl die Geberseite sich seit den 80er Jahren erheblich bemüht, den Anteil der Afrikaner im öffentlichen Dienst ihrer Länder zu steigern. Die Hauptgründe für die fortbestehende hohe Zahl von Ausländern werden aufgezeigt. (APAF-Glz)