Beyond Aid: A Conceptual Perspective on the Transformation of Development Cooperation

Janus, Heiner; Klingebiel, Stephan; Paulo, Sebastian

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“…Further, consideration of the 'horizontal' coherence of policy implementation has expanded to encompass private and civil society organisations as well as institutions in the public sector (Janus et al, 2015;OECD, 2016). These expansions in the conception of policy coherence reflect our increasingly 'globalised world in which the boundaries between different policy areas and levels have become blurred' (Verschaeve et al, 2016: 45).…”

Section: Conceptualising and Problematising Policy Coherencementioning

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Sport and the Sustainable Development Goals: Where is the policy coherence?

Lindsey

Darby

2018

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. This article addresses the urgent need for critical analysis of the relationships between sport and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) enshrined in the United Nations' global development framework, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Importantly, there has yet to be any substantial academic exploration of the implications of the position accorded to sport as 'an important enabler' of the aims of 2030 Agenda and its broad set of SDGs. In beginning to address this gap, we draw on the concept of policy coherence for two reasons. Firstly, the designation of a specific SDG Target for policy coherence is recognition of its centrality in working towards SDGs that are considered as 'integrated and indivisible'. Secondly, the concept of policy coherence is centred on a dualism that enables holistic examination of both synergies through which the contribution of sport to the SDGs can be enhanced as well as incoherencies by which sport may detract from such outcomes. Our analysis progresses through three examples that focus on the common orientation of the Sport for Development and Peace 'movement' towards education-orientated objectives aligned with SDG 4; potential synergies between sport participation policies and the SDG 3 Target for reducing non-communicable diseases; and practices within professional football in relation to several migration-related SDG Targets. These examples show the relevance of the SDGs across diverse sectors of the sport industry and illustrate complexities within and across countries that make pursuit of comprehensive policy coherence infeasible. Nevertheless, our analyses lead us to encourage both policy makers and researchers to continue to utilise the concept of policy coherence as a valuable lens to identify and consider factors that may enable and constrain various potential contributions of sport to a range of SDGs.

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Section: Conceptualising and Problematising Policy Coherencementioning

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Sport and the Sustainable Development Goals: Where is the policy coherence?

Lindsey

Darby

2018

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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“…At the same time, through MDG-8, it was universally accepted that foreign aid would have to be supplemented with additional efforts in a number of developmentrelated policy areas, particularly trade, debt relief, and access to medicines and new technologies (Grieg-Gran, 2003;Ashoff, 2005;Picciotto, 2005). By the end of the 2000s, PCD became one of the main components of the 'beyond aid' discourse, as evidenced by the 2011 Busan Global Partnership for Development Effectiveness and the negotiations of the post-2015 agenda: at least at the rhetorical level, there seemed to be a shift from 'do-not-harm' approaches towards more proactive, concerted approaches engaging actors beyond traditional donors and traditional development means (Carbone, 2013;ERD, 2013;Janus et al, 2015).…”

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“…In the past there was a clear division of labour between those who dealt with international development, and thus defended the interests of poor countries, and those who dealt with domestic development, and thus protected the interests of producers and consumers at home (Grieg-Gran, 2003). Clearly, this old dividing line has lost relevance, not least because the development agenda has substantially widened (Janus et al, 2015). The problem is that not only do different policy communities not necessarily share the same goals -and, of course, in a pluralistic system certain degrees of incoherence are unavoidable -but also that clashes occur with the development domain itself, most notably on the concept of development and its policy implications (Forster and Stokke, 1999;Ashoff, 2005;Carbone, 2008).…”

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“…First, the tremendous growth recorded by some countries in the developing world means that, on the one hand, the separation between developed and developing countries has become blurred and therefore PCD has become a shared responsibility (Janus et al, 2015). On the other hand, it entails that the EU can no longer take for granted that developing countries simply accept what is on offer (Smith, 2013).…”

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“…Much scholarly work has concentrated on the theoretical significance of PCD, the factors that enable or hinder its promotion, and the pernicious effects it has on developing countries (Forster and Stokke, 1999;Ashoff, 2005;Picciotto, 2005;Carbone, 2009;Sianes, 2013). Less attention has been attracted by the gradual evolution of PCD from being a donor responsibility, along a North-South division, into becoming a shared responsibility, with both emerging and developing countries playing a more assertive role in relation to actors in the North (Janus et al, 2015). At the policy level, efforts to improve PCD have not been framed as a political endeavour of managing trade-offs between policy interests but instead as a largely technical and managerial process (Adelle and Jordan, 2014;Prontera, 2014).…”

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This article discusses the trajectory of policy coherence for development (PCD) in the European Union (EU). In particular, it argues that the strong focus on institutional mechanisms, conceived as a way of overcoming different types of resistance, has had the effect that results achieved have by no means been commensurate with the expectations raised by the various reforms launched over the years. EU Member States have paid lip-service to the importance of PCD without translating commitments into more coherent (national and supranational) policies. Moroever, through an analysis of the Impact Assessment (IA) -the principal mechanism to promote PCD at EU level -prepared for the reform of the EU's agricultural and fisheries policies in 2011-2013 it shows how bureaucratic arrangements have substantially failed to clarify the real impact of EU policies on (different types of) developing countries. The conclusion is that successful promotion of PCD is more than just having the right arguments and ensuring sufficient technical support, but is first and foremost a political undertaking.

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Beyond Aid: A Conceptual Perspective on the Transformation of Development Cooperation

Cited by 90 publications

References 51 publications

Sport and the Sustainable Development Goals: Where is the policy coherence?

Sport and the Sustainable Development Goals: Where is the policy coherence?

The European Union and Policy Coherence for Development: Reforms, Results, Resistance

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