TRIANGULAR DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION IN AFRICAN COUNTRIES

Triangular development cooperation involves the DAC/OECD donors, providers of South-South cooperation and recipient countries. The aim of the paper is to show the scale of and trends in triangular development cooperation in African countries over the period from 2001 to 2016. The analysis is based on the data retrieved from the OECD.Stat and reports of aid development agencies of DAC members. In the years 2001-2016, donors provided 601.6 US$ billion (in constant 2015 US$) of official development assistance (ODA) to Africa. The major bilateral donors were the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Japan. A half of ODA was directed to ten African countries. Donors supported mainly social and economic sectors. In general, bilateral and multilateral foreign aid has been dominated in Africa. However, small triangular cooperation programmes, the majority of which focus on providing technical assistance in form of experts and training, have been observed in African countries. In the group of DAC donors, Japan is the most engaged in triangular development cooperation in Africa. The main pivotal countries are Brazil, China, and India. In turn, Egypt, Kenya, Morocco, South Africa, and Tunisia are the major African providers of South-South cooperation to other African countries.