Will the aid industry survive?

I started my career in the aid industry with domestic administrative works in Japan. Since then, I was mainly based in Japan. Fortunately, or unfortunately, I was given the opprotunity working in Zambia from 2000 to 2003. Why was it fortunate, and at the same time unfortunate? This might be because there were various movements such as PRSP formulation, Sector-wide Approaches, and continued currency of privatisation while I stayed there. As just one of the strangers there, I could not seize what was going on for what purposes. On the other hand, the stay in such a busy place of the aid industry, gave me opprotunities to spend some time with various stakeholders such as World Bank, DfID and other like-minded donor countries, UDAID or NGOs. Through that experience, at first hand, I could not help feel that Japanese aid industry was far behind the international movements of aid industry. This might have been due to physical distance to Africa, where I worked. The major reasons seemed, however, to be found in lack of their seriousness to international development. As the second biggest contributor in the aid industry, it has been apperent that Japanese governemnt concerned about its presence in the international arena. But, this could never be understood as its seriousness. The fact that Japan has been one of the biggest contributors to aid industry has never properly be fed back to Japanese nationals. What does it mean? To me, it is a clear evidence that the Japanese had not made significant efforts in the international political arena, in which aid is apparently conducted. As I mentioned above, the Japanese government's concern has been just its presence, in other words, how often the words 'Japansese' have been referred to.