In the case of the EU-ACP SPA/SFA banana measures, while regions such as the Windward Islands struggled with a declining banana sector, other producers - such as C6te d'Ivoire, Cameroon and Belize - were more successful in using EU resources to adjust to changing trade conditions, improve competitiveness and increase market share. The adjustment funds in these countries were more effectively mobilised by, inter alia, more closely involving larger-scale industry players in the process of restructuring, particularly through cofinancing arrangements that ensured that private agents had a direct financial stake in aid projects, and by relying on competitiveness and expansion plans drafted by firms rather than external consultants (Goodison 2007). These specific positive examples of adjustment funding should be highlighted in AfT policy debates, rather than the more general and pessimistic overview that currently dominates.