Mexico is a large upper-middle-income country (UMIC) in the midst of transition from aid, with gross national income per capita of $8,610 in 2017. Despite aid flows falling in the 1990s and stagnating in the early 2000s, they have been rising since 2008 to support the climate change and security...

Growing criticism of inefficient development aid demanded new planning instruments of donors, including international NGOs (INGOs). A reorientation from isolated project-planning towards holistic country concepts and the increasing rationality of a result-orientated planning process were seen as...