WHAT HAS EUROPE BEEN DOING?

Additionally, in February 2007 the U.K. Department for International Development (DFID) launched the Governance and Transparency Fund, which has made available 120 million British pounds over five years for large-scale projects carried out by NGOs, civil society groups, the media, unions, and other (mainly nonprofit) groups in developing countries. Strikingly, the French government under new president Nicolas Sarkozy has committed itself to move away from a purely statist model?for example, through increasing citizen participation in the drawing up of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers.10 On a different note, at least one Dutch diplomat has admitted that the European focus on state-building has put too much emphasis on effectiveness, too little on legitimacy.