With budget support, money is given directly to a recipient country government, usually from a donor government.

The risks for donor governments and recipient governments are very different.

Foreign donor governments have known since the 1984-85 famine that relief food was going to the militia.

Representatives of 33 donor governments and 30 international agencies attended.

"Are the donor governments going to come up with that kind of money?"

Secondly, implementing a coordinated and sustained effort by donor governments gives rise for concern.

It is not easy for donor governments to keep the money flowing to the developing world at this time.

The individual donor governments demand that the countries receiving the aid make a full accounting.

America's financing, more than twice that of all other donor governments combined, is producing results.

So why do donor governments keep investing in these approaches?