Didier D. Matamba

BSc Biomedical: University of Kinshasa, 1989.

BSc (Hons) Physics: University of Kinshasa, 1991.

ND BioTechnology, Technikon Witswatersrand, Johannesburg, 1994.

MBA: University of Derby, 2005.

Aid effectiveness in Sub-Saharan Africa: An analysis of mismatches between donors and recipients.

Supervisors: Richard Duncombe and Derek Eldridge.

• Foreign Aid Management and Aid Donors & Recipients Relationships.
• Public Management, Strategic Management and Corporate Governance and Institutions.
• Social Justice, Racial Equality, Human Rights and Poverty reduction.

Foreign Aid has profound and tangled roots in the history of Western expansion. The North-South relationship from its onset has been one of ‘powerful-powerless’, ‘masters-slaves’, ‘civilized-savages’, ‘colonialists-colonies’ but also ‘principle-agent’ and has yet to be philanthropic.  This constantly changing relationship – at least in its format – has fundamentally affected and informed current states-firms dynamics that warrant monopolies, trade tariffs and state intervention in markets’ regulation. It is only recently that ‘critics have recognized the principal–agent relationship between donors (the principal) and governments (the agent) who have mismatching and generally conflicting views about the desirability of poverty alleviation.’ From a business perspective, Aid effectiveness becomes a mammoth challenge as parties have mismatching interests and approaches to honouring their contract.

Director: Congo Development Partnership (CODEPP).

Management Committee Member: SOS Immigration.