International Development Cooperation Today : : A Radical Shift Towards a Global Paradigm.

• Author: Develtere, Patrick.
• TeilnehmendeR: Huyse, Huib.; Van Ongevalle, Jan.
• Place / Publishing House: Leuven : : Leuven University Press,, 2021.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (321 pages)

Table of Contents

Cover -- Contents -- List of figures -- Figure 1: Trend in official development cooperation of all rich countries combined -- Figure 2: Historically, ODA is the most stable external resource for developing countries -- Figure 3: ODA grant equivalent for 2019 (30 countries) -- Figure 4: ODA grant equivalent as a percentage of GNI for 2019 (30 countries) -- Figure 5: The Gavi Alliance -- Figure 6: Inflows of external finance to ODA-eligible countries -- Figure 7: Towards a new development cooperation model -- Figure 8: Visual representation of the Paris Declaration -- Figure 9: Sustainable Development Goals (doughnut visualisation) -- Figure 10: Countries whose SDG Index score has improved or decreased the most since 2015 -- Figure 11: Whole-of-Society approach -- Figure 12: Bilateral ODA composition: all DAC countries, 2014 -- Figure 13: Trends in decentralised development cooperation -- Figure 14: Trends in official decentralised development cooperation (DDC) financing, net disbursements, USD million, constant 2015 prices -- Figure 15: IGOs in the world system, 1816-2014 -- Figure 16: Step by step towards an Africa-EU alliance -- Figure 17: Africa and Europe: a unique and unparalleled strategic proximity -- Figure 18: The UN system -- Figure 19: Resources beyond ODA funds from DAC countries account for between 12% (for the Global Fund) and 60% (for the International Development Association [IDA]) -- Figure 20: Non-ODAble contributions make for a large part of financing to the United Nations Development system -- Figure 21: TGI growth 1955-2018 -- Figure 22: ODA to and through CSOs, 2010-18 (USD million, disbursements, constant 2018 prices) -- Figure 23: Four types of NGDO strategies to address global challenges -- Figure 24: Saferworld's localisation spectrum -- Figure 25: Sustainable Development Goals: distance to target.

Figure 26: Distribution of ODA by income group (2017-2018) in millions of USD -- List of tables -- Table 1: Overview of an expanding community of development actors (examples) -- Table 2: Top 10 ODA recipients (2018) -- Table 3: The colonial preference (2007-2017) -- Table 4: Fragmentation of aid -- Table 5: New donors' development cooperation agencies and their multilateral aid -- Table 6: Voting weightings in the World Bank Group (2020) -- Table 7: The six largest NGDOs in the US -- Table 8: Percentage of Europeans regarding development aid as an important issue -- Table 9: ODA by income category, 1990-2018 -- List of boxes -- Box 1. No definition of development cooperation? -- Box 2. ODA is the most stable external resource for developing countries -- Box 3. How relevant is the 0.7% target? -- Box 4. Who owns this well? Partners in problems! -- Box 5. Development impact bonds: private investors and conventional donors join forces -- Box 6. Colonialists, colonisers, colonists, colonials and the colonised -- Box 7. Are colonial attitudes back or are they being magnified by COVID-19? -- Box 8. The role of Chinese training and scholarship programmes in Tanzania -- Box 9. Yet another Marshall Plan -- Box 10. Education aid or how development cooperation is fashion sensitive -- Box 11. Debt under COVID-19 -- Box 12. In the driver's seat? -- Box 13. Findings of the 2018 Monitoring Round of the Global Partnership -- Box 14. Making university development cooperation SDG-proof -- Box 15. The next Einstein will be African -- Box 16. The Trump card -- Box 17. Why Burundi receives less aid than Rwanda -- Box 18. When cultures meet… -- Box 19. Leveraging: the new buzzword -- Box 20. The European Practitioners' Network for European Development Cooperation -- Box 21. Between policy and practice: What evaluations reveal.

Box 22. Six economic partnership agreements, most of them under negotiation -- Box 23. What Juncker literally said: a snippet -- Box 24. A preferential relationship becomes a reciprocal, interest-driven partnership -- Box 25. Overlap and competition in the UN family -- Box 26. The influence of development agencies' staff -- Box 27. NGO or CSO: what's in a name? -- Box 28. Southern NGOs become NGDOs -- Box 29. The difficult task of NGDOs -- Box 30. Local actors in the driving seat of development -- Box 31. Recommendation of the Global Coalition for Social Protection Floors -- Box 32. The Banco Nacional de Bolivia's support of World Vision -- Box 33. Novel, unconventional actors in international development -- Box 34. Humanitarian jihad -- Box 35. Who gets most out of it? -- Box 36. The saviour complex -- Box 37. International framework agreements -- Box 38. Trade unions and NGDOs -- Box 39. For the dignity of small farmers -- Box 40. The OVOP movement: One Village One Product -- Box 41. More than micro for the masses -- Box 42. Philip Morris International: the smoke screen of corporate social responsibility -- Box 43. From cooperating out of poverty to #coops4dev -- Box 44. Fair trade: an exploitation barometer? -- Box 45. Three-for-one in Mexico -- Box 46. The power of philanthrocapitalism -- Box 47. The Aga Khan Development Network -- Box 48. Panorama or tunnel vision? -- Box 49. Not an island: Cuban health internationalism -- Box 50. Reacting to a biblical catastrophe: the 2019-2020 locust crisis -- Box 51. Riot games -- Box 52. Radi-Aid Award: changing perceptions of poverty and development. -- Box 53. Reaching out for knowledge from the Global South -- Box 54. Changing minds through systemic thinking -- Box 55. Film as a medium for global citizenship education.

Box 56. COVID-19: an unexpected window of opportunity for global citizenship education -- Box 57. Aid and self-reliance: two sides of the same coin? -- Box 58. Evidence-based optimism -- Box 59. Evaluation trends -- Box 60. Nobel Peace Prize laureates: international norm entrepreneurs -- Box 61. Aid helps, but it is not the solution -- Box 62. Financial donors and cultural nitwits -- Box 63. The Samaritan is trapped … and so is the person he has helped -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Development cooperation in an era of globalisation -- More and more new actors on the scene: is the sector still a community? -- Big donors, generous donors -- More conflicting views and approaches: the arena is getting tough -- More transactional interests: market appeal -- Do new donors have other interests? -- Everybody from payers to players: the emergence of a new paradigm -- From colonialism to the Sustainable Development Goals -- Colonial warm-up exercises -- Technical cooperation and knowledge transfer -- Faith in development aid -- Development cooperation: aid in a global setting -- The Washington Consensus and structural adjustments -- International cooperation, the Millennium Development Goals and the Sustainable Development Goals -- Addressing poverty in exchange for debt relief -- International development cooperation and Paris: introducing order to the community and the market -- The SDGs and the need for a whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach -- It takes two to tango -- Internationally: among specialists -- Recipient countries: donor darlings and donor orphans -- The first pillar: official bilateral cooperation -- Many small players and institutional pluralism -- In search of an institutional foundation for development cooperation -- Decentralisation: to reach the SDGs or also for other reasons?.

The second pillar: multilateral cooperation -- Europe's development cooperation patchwork -- Multilateral cooperation: the UN galaxy fans out further -- The third pillar: non-governmental development organisations -- A movement with many faces, roles, visions and strategies -- Several generations of NGDOs -- A sector with many different visions and strategies -- A movement with a plural support base -- The sector breaks free from the NGDOs -- Is the new social movement becoming an established network movement? -- The fourth pillar: towards a whole-of-society approach -- The key players of the fourth pillar -- The fourth pillar: the children of globalisation challenge the children of the North-South -- Starting from a different field -- From a level 'telling' field to joint action -- The near and distant future of a whole-of-society approach -- Humanitarian aid: more dispersed or more networked? -- What place for emergency aid? -- Overcoming the humanitarian nemesis -- Cash-and-carry on the market -- The unbearable lightness of the support for development cooperation -- The uneasy relationship with the support base -- No (more) aid fatigue? -- Popular, yet little understood -- Something needs to be done: but by whom? -- Time for a new narrative: from development education towards education for global citizenship -- Sixty years of international development cooperation: where has the bumpy road led us? -- Progress, but not for everyone -- Is aid future-proof? -- Are we really that generous? -- Who is receiving aid? -- The effectiveness and impact of development cooperation -- Development cooperation: a stumbling-block? -- Conclusion: the past will not come back but is still there -- Notes -- Bibliography.