Focusing mainstream donor lending on support for best practices and prototypes for institutional reconciliation would be particularly fitting given current donor fatigue and pressure for quick results on the field from both the African population and donors. The conceptual framework and agenda to operationalize the main findings and recommendations of the AM90s research program can be synthesized as follows. Achieving institutional performance and capacity enhancement requires strengthening the necessary nexus between good policies , good leadership and good institutions . Networks are needed to help share the lessons of experience and best practices . At the lending stage , the following instruments provide options for translating the operational framework into results in the field.
Institutional reconciliation is thus key to the institutional and economic development of Africa.
More important, the approaches suggested in the study are rooted firmly in the local culture, and are consequently more likely to strengthen self-sufficiency and reduce dependence on foreign assistance. Mamadou Dia. 1996. Directions in Development Series.