Prioritising PPCR Investments in Mozambique: The Politics of ‘Country Ownership’ and ‘Stakeholder Participation’

Shankland, Alex; Chambote, Raul

doi:10.1111/j.1759-5436.2011.00223.x

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“…Frelimo has also transformed resettlement into a ‘reward’ for its supporters, with key informants and community members claiming that government authorities are keen to see resources for resettlement areas being channelled to districts that traditionally provide the ruling party with political backing. This politicisation of the supposedly ‘technical’ exercise of allocating climate change funds has also been described in relation to allocation of World Bank PPCR (Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience) funds to the municipality of Beira City, another politically contested area of the country (cf Shankland and Chambote ).…”

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“…The reasons why interviewees appeared to conflate current climate hazard with climate change impacts in this manner are complex. From a political perspective, one possible explanation is the ‘newness’ of the climate change issue in Mozambique (Shankland and Chambote ). Its rise in prominence in recent years has fuelled competition between INGC and the country's Ministry for Coordination of Environmental Action (MICOA) over ‘ownership’ of the issue and hence lucrative climate change funding.…”

Section: Narratives and Counter‐narratives: Problems Causes And Solumentioning

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A climate of control: flooding, displacement and planned resettlement in the Lower Zambezi River valley, Mozambique

Arnall

2013

Geographical Journal

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In recent years, the potential role of planned, internal resettlement as a climate change adaptation measure has been highlighted by national governments and the international policy community. However, in many developing countries, resettlement is a deeply political process that often results in an unequal distribution of costs and benefits among relocated persons. This paper examines these tensions in Mozambique, drawing on a case study of flood‐affected communities in the Lower Zambezi River valley. It takes a political ecology approach – focusing on discourses of human–environment interaction, as well as the power relationships that are supported by such discourses – to show how a dominant narrative of climate change‐induced hazards for small‐scale farmers is contributing to their involuntary resettlement to higher‐altitude, less fertile areas of land. These forced relocations are buttressed by a series of wider economic and political interests in the Lower Zambezi River region, such as dam construction for hydroelectric power generation and the extension of control over rural populations, from which resettled people derive little direct benefit. Rather than engaging with these challenging issues, most international donors present in the country accept the ‘inevitability’ of extreme weather impacts and view resettlement as an unfortunate and, in some cases, necessary step to increase people's ‘resilience’, thus rationalising the top‐down imposition of unpopular social policies. The findings add weight to the argument that a depoliticised interpretation of climate change can deflect attention away from underlying drivers of vulnerability and poverty, as well as obscure the interests of governments that are intent on reordering poor and vulnerable populations.

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Section: Power Relationships Supported By Dominant Narrativesmentioning

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Section: Narratives and Counter‐narratives: Problems Causes And Solumentioning

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A climate of control: flooding, displacement and planned resettlement in the Lower Zambezi River valley, Mozambique

Arnall

2013

Geographical Journal

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“…This is one reason why donors have tried to retain control over adaptation funding so far, which, in the case of advance funding (such as the World Bank's Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR) administered through the multilateral development banks) has led to the usual attempts at micro-management (as well as distortion by incentive structures in the donor institutions themselves). Shankland and Chambote's (2011) case study of arguments over the allocation of PPCR funding in Mozambique illustrates this point very well.…”

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What Can Climate‐Adaptation Policy in Sub‐Saharan Africa Learn from Research on Governance and Politics?

Lockwood

2013

Development Policy Review

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There has been relatively little thinking about the political context of climate‐adaptation policy in sub‐Saharan Africa, what this means for the quality of governance, and the capacity to plan and deliver what are often quite complex policies and programmes. This is all the more surprising given the quantity and depth of what is already known about politics and governance in Africa. This article asks what can be learned from this body of knowledge and experience that is relevant for climate‐adaptation policy.

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“…S14), i.e., an idealisation of democracy, rather than actual political realities both nationally and globally. Indeed, it appears that donors' incentives remain stacked against wider participation in recipient countries since the latter risks interfering with a timely disbursement of funds -which, after all, is donor agencies' primary efficiency benchmark vis-a-vis their own principals (Shankland & Chambote, 2011).…”

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Elusive accountabilities in the HIV scale-up: ‘Ownership’ as a functional tautology

Esser

2014

Global Public Health

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Mounting concerns over aid effectiveness have rendered 'ownership' a central concept in the vocabulary of development assistance for health (DAH). The article investigates the application of both 'national ownership' and 'country ownership' in the broader development discourse as well as more specifically in the context of internationally funded HIV/AIDS interventions. Based on comprehensive literature reviews, the research uncovers a multiplicity of definitions, most of which either divert from or plainly contradict the concept's original meaning and intent. During the last 10 years in particular, it appears that both public and private donors have advocated for greater 'ownership' by recipient governments and countries to hedge their own political risk rather than to work towards greater inclusion of the latter in agenda-setting and programming. Such politically driven semantic dynamics suggest that the concept's salience is not merely a discursive reflection of globally skewed power relations in DAH but a deliberate exercise in limiting donors' accountabilities. At the same time, the research also finds evidence that this conceptual contortion frames current global public health scholarship, thus adding further urgency to the need to critically re-evaluate the international political economy of global public health from a discursive perspective.

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Prioritising PPCR Investments in Mozambique: The Politics of ‘Country Ownership’ and ‘Stakeholder Participation’

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A climate of control: flooding, displacement and planned resettlement in the Lower Zambezi River valley, Mozambique

A climate of control: flooding, displacement and planned resettlement in the Lower Zambezi River valley, Mozambique

What Can Climate‐Adaptation Policy in Sub‐Saharan Africa Learn from Research on Governance and Politics?

Elusive accountabilities in the HIV scale-up: ‘Ownership’ as a functional tautology

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