During the 1990s, and especially over the second half of the decade, Uganda experienced high economic growth, falling income poverty, and relative political stability. In this dynamic environment, donors’ contribution to Uganda’s effective implementation of the Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP) can be conceptualized along a spectrum of aid partnership. At the extreme ends of the spectrum, while true development partners (e.g. DFID) support the government’s development agenda by welcoming a switch from projects to government budget systems, development parasites like the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
remain foreign to Uganda’s dynamic development plan. Government and development partners share the responsibility to continue pursuing the effective implementation of Uganda’s PEAP, while applying political pressure to regulate the activities of development parasites, who have failed to keep up with the pace of the policy debate.