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.