Linking Relief and Development in the Greater Horn of Africa

This paper has been prepared under the aegis of the President's Greater Horn of Africa Initiative (GHAI). It was written by the USAID staff on the GHAI Inter-Agency Team established to promote rapid transitions from relief to development. It looks historically at internal USAID constraints that have inhibited smooth transitions between relief and development programming in countries in the Greater Horn of Africa. The transition experience in post-war Ethiopia was a central point of reference for this paper; experiences of USAID staff in Washington, Eritrea, Somalia and Rwanda and other Greater Horn countries were also drawn upon.