Development Organizations

Schaaf, Rebecca

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“…The resulting problems of coordinating these actors can be seen in responses to humanitarian crises, while the differences in values and goals are evident in PPPs involving the private sector, national governments and civil society organisations. While private sector firms are interested in maximizing profits and return to shareholders, civil society organisations are interested in ensuring activities result in fair and sustainable outcomes and states should be concerned primarily with maximizing the welfare of their society (Schaaf ). These different priorities and perspectives on how to achieve development have clear implications for the effectiveness of development partnerships.…”

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“…To achieve more effective and sustainable partnerships, better understanding of key partnership principles, and better communication between the actors within the development landscape is essential. “This is necessary in order to ensure greater coherence within the system as a whole, and avoid disconnection, fragmentation and confusion” (Schaaf , p. 279). However, this review of development partnerships has demonstrated the need to avoid a normative view of these activities.…”

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“…There are also thousands of civil society organisations, including faith‐based groups, resistance movements and non‐governmental organisations that can be international entities, or community‐based savings groups and anything in between. The development landscape in the 21st century has therefore evolved into a complex, dynamic, interlinked network of diverse development organisations (Schaaf ). For example, in Vietnam in 2002, 25 official bilateral donors, 19 official multilateral donors and 350 non‐governmental organisations were operating in over 8,000 development projects (Woods ).…”

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The Rhetoric and Reality of Partnerships for International Development

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2015

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Over the past 60 years, the international development landscape has become far more complex. There is now a much wider range and number of organisations involved in some aspect of poverty alleviation, and an increasing emphasis on collaborative activities and forming partnerships to achieve development goals. This approach has been reinforced by the eighth Millennium Development Goal, which calls for a global partnership for development, the emerging Sustainable Development Goals, as well as recent multi‐stakeholder partnerships including the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation, which evolved from the Busan Partnership agreement devised at the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness. However, there are many challenges to partnerships, both in terms of defining their form and operation, but also achieving sustainable, mutually beneficial partnerships for development. The advocating of partnerships in development policy suggests significant normative advantages to a more collaborative approach; however, other literature are more cautious, highlighting a number of pitfalls including reductions in effectiveness, difficulties in implementation and conflicts of interest. This article reviews the contemporary nature of partnerships for international development and considers their role in achieving more effective development cooperation.

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confidence: 99%

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