Aid, Politics and Development: A Donor Perspective

Armon, Jeremy

doi:10.1111/j.1467-7679.2007.00390.x

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“…Burrall et al, 2006;Armon, 2007;Booth, 2008;Odén and Wohlgemuth, 2011) have also emphasized that the Paris reforms mostly concern technocratic approaches of efficiency in aid management and delivery. Given the political nature of aid and development problems, doubts have been raised about the feasibility of translating these principles into practice.…”

Section: Aid Effectiveness Coordination and The Role Of The Eu The Imentioning

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The EU and Donor Coordination on the Ground: Perspectives from Tanzania and Zambia

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Orbie

2014

Eur J Dev Res

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The proliferation of aid donors and channels for aid and the resulting fragmentation brings about huge costs for developing and donor countries and has a detrimental effect on the impact of aid. Coordination is presented as a strategy to help resolve this problem and has been at the top of the development agenda in the past decade. The EU has on many occasions expressed its ambition to foster this agenda and strengthen internal EU coordination. However, the few existing contemporary studies suggest that the implementation of coordination is fairly low. This article seeks to understand this gap through an empirical analysis of EU coordination in Tanzania and Zambia. The findings reveal that the EU's internal and external coordination role has indeed been limited. It is argued that challenges to EU coordination can partly be explained by institutional factors, but that ideational and political elements should also be considered in order to gain a more profound understanding.La prolifération de donateurs d'aide et de mécanismes de développement et la fragmentation qui en résulte génèrent des coûts considérables aussi bien pour les pays en voie de développement que pour les pays donateurs et ont un effet néfaste sur l'impact de l'aide. Au cours de la dernière décennie, la coordination, vue comme stratégie pour résoudre ces problèmes, se situait en haut de l'agenda de la politique de développement internationale. À maintes reprises l'UE a exprimé son ambition de stimuler cet agenda et de renforcer la coordination interne au sein de l'UE. Mais les rares études contemporaines suggèrent que la mise en oeuvre de la coordination a été très faible. Cet article cherche à comprendre ce gap au moyen d'une analyse empirique de la coordination de l'UE en Tanzanie et en Zambie. Les résultats révèlent qu'effectivement le rôle de coordination interne et externe de l'UE dans les pays susmentionnés a été limité. Il est clair que les défis pour la coordination de la part de l'UE peuvent être expliqués partiellement par des facteurs institutionnels, mais qu'il faut aussi tenir compte de facteurs idéationnels et politiques pour arriver à une compréhension plus approfondie.

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Section: Aid Effectiveness Coordination and The Role Of The Eu The Imentioning

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The EU and Donor Coordination on the Ground: Perspectives from Tanzania and Zambia

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Orbie

2014

Eur J Dev Res

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“…There is more awareness of the need to work in a coherent fashion and there is much better collaboration amongst actors, even though the commitment amongst different donors varies. Without a doubt the aid effectiveness agenda has had a positive impact upon aid management, reflecting Armon's observation that, if applied, the Paris principles can work (Armon, 2007). Rwanda is a country which has grasped the opportunity to take ownership of aid.…”

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“…13. Armon (2007) highlights the importance of staff having a more political understanding of the contexts in which they are working. Hayman (2006: 185-6) observes that day-to-day technicalities and practicalities tend to override staff engagement with the political dimensions of their work.…”

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From Rome to Accra via Kigali: ‘Aid Effectiveness’ in Rwanda

Hayman

2009

Development Policy Review

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Since the mid‐2000s, significant strides have been made in Rwanda to implement the ‘aid effectiveness’ agenda as captured in the 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. This article explores the historical evolution of this process since 1994, exposing the complex manoeuvring to establish workable practices, and the less visible political implications of this agenda. The Rwandan government is considered to have strong ‘ownership’ of aid strategies. However, the article demonstrates that the concept of progressive ownership implicit within ‘aid effectiveness’ discourse is misleading. The evidence points rather to joint ownership between donor and recipient, reflecting limitations to the amount of control over aid that donors will cede.

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“…Some of them, writing at the general level rather than with any specific country reality in mind, specifically call attention to the way the PD renders invisible or fails to factor in the power and politics that lie at the heart of aid relationships. Most, defining 'effectiveness' and 'aid effectiveness' in less technocratic, more open-ended and holistic ways than the PD itself, conclude that this will compromise the effectiveness of the Paris agenda (Booth 2008;Eyben 2006Eyben , 2008Armon 2006;Hyden 2008;Ferrero y de Loma Osorio 2009).…”

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Paris in Bogotá: Applying the Aid Effectiveness Agenda in Colombia

McGee¹,

Heredia²

2010

IDS Working Papers

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About IDSThe Institute of Development Studies is one of the world's leading charities for research, teaching and communications on international development. Founded in 1966, the Institute enjoys an international reputation based on the quality of its work and the rigour with which it applies academic skills to real world challenges. Its purpose is to understand and explain the world, and to try to change it -to influence as well as to inform.IDS hosts five dynamic research programmes, five popular postgraduate courses, and a family of worldclass web-based knowledge services. These three spheres are integrated in a unique combination -as a development knowledge hub, IDS is connected into and is a convenor of networks throughout the world.The Institute is home to approximately 80 researchers, 50 knowledge services staff, 50 support staff and about 150 students at any one time. But the IDS community extends far beyond, encompassing an extensive network of partners, former staff and students across the development community worldwide. This publication is copyright, but may be reproduced by any method without fee for teaching or non-profit purposes, but not for resale. Formal permission is required for all such uses, but normally will be granted immediately. For copying in any other circumstances, or for re-use in other publications, or for translation or adaptation, prior written permission must be obtained from the publisher and a fee may be payable. SummaryRecent research in the field of development aid persuasively problematises aid relationships and begins to reveal their significance for the real-life application and effectiveness of international development cooperation. Until insights from such research percolate through aid machineries such as the OECD DAC and its workings, the country-level consequences of universal aid frameworks and prescriptions will continue to be insufficiently foreseen, and in some cases unexpectedly problematic.This paper is about an in-depth, qualitative study of the application of the Paris Declaration (PD) on Aid Effectiveness in Colombia. This middle-income, nonaid-dependent country with a prolonged and complex internal armed conflict and a poor human rights record, hitherto on the margins of international aid circles, has fast assumed a high-profile role in them via its adoption of the PD. The study stemmed from a conviction that PD application in Colombia has unanticipated consequences, with under-appreciated impacts on the strategies of donors and social actors. Donors are subject to an attempt to push them (back) into a technocratic corner. In this politically complex context where donors' presence owes at least as much to concerns over Colombia's international human rights performance as to classic aid donor concerns with widespread extreme poverty, this is worrying and undesirable.It also has serious implications for the tripartite aid dialogue process established in 2003, involving Government, donors and social actors. This, for all its flaws and frustrations, is unique ...

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Aid, Politics and Development: A Donor Perspective

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The EU and Donor Coordination on the Ground: Perspectives from Tanzania and Zambia

The EU and Donor Coordination on the Ground: Perspectives from Tanzania and Zambia

From Rome to Accra via Kigali: ‘Aid Effectiveness’ in Rwanda

Paris in Bogotá: Applying the Aid Effectiveness Agenda in Colombia

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