South-South Cooperation

Waisbich, Laura Trajber; Mawdsley, Emma

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“…It could also help demystifying myths and generating alternative narratives about SSC practices, based on information and evidence, and even contribute to the improvement of the field, internally to each country and as a whole (Escallón, 2019;Esteves and Klingebiel, 2018;Waisbich, Silva and Suyama, 2017). In the words of Corrêa (2022) from ABC: "It is better that developing countries take the lead in the development of a method to quantify SSC considering its particularities, rather than a void that will be filled by other international actors, through approximations".…”

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“…The issue of measuring South-South cooperation (SSC) has gained momentum in International Development Cooperation (IDC) related debates in recent decades, especially since the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Measurement here refers to the production of data and knowledge through the quantification of financial flows and the evaluation of processes, outcomes, and impact of initiatives aimed at promoting international development (Besharati and Macfeely, 2019;Waisbich, Silva and Suyama, 2017). As a public policy tool, the measurement of development cooperation is simultaneously a technical and political affair (Abramovay and Lotta, 2022), unavoidably permeated by power relations and disputes between different actors and interests.…”

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Active non-alignment: Brazil and the measurement of South-South Development Cooperation

Waisbich

2023

RTM n. 31

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Measuring South-South cooperation (SSC) has gained policy and political salience in International Development Cooperation (IDC) debates in recent decades. This article applies the concept of active non-alignment to analyze the efforts of “southern providers”, such as Brazil, for autonomous, differentiated, and proactive engagement in the measurement debate, as well as in the field of international development more broadly. The article combines analyses of foreign policy and public policy and traces the evolution, since 2010, of the international debate and the Brazilian response – diplomatic, institutional, and non-governmental – to the growing “duty of measuring” the flows and impact of its SSC. Far from being purely a technical issue, the reconstruction of processes and negotiations surrounding the creation of measurement instruments and practices to count and account for Brazilian SSC contribute to illustrating political, geopolitical, and (inter)bureaucratic disputes in the production of transnational public policies, such as Brazil’s IDC.

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Active non-alignment: Brazil and the measurement of South-South Development Cooperation

Waisbich

2023

RTM n. 31

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“…There are many reasons behind this. The first one relates to the diversity of diplomatic and paradiplomatic stances on the legitimacy and appropriateness of the measurement agenda, including persistent unease (and even open resistance stances) from key Southern providers, such as Brazil, China, and India (Waisbich, 2021). Rather than purely technical motives, political concerns with power hierarchies and structural inequalities in the field, as well as overall geopolitical, geostrategic, and status concerns, are key to the different forms of reluctance to SSC measurement.…”

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“…Second, the paper demonstrates ‘Southern providers”—particularly rising powers such as Brazil, China, and India—agency to negotiate their differentiated integration in the ‘aid system’ by proposing alternative tools to measure their development cooperation flows and initiatives in their own terms. Finally, the paper argues that unfolding measurement battles over quantifying, reporting, and evaluating SSC reflect the ‘politicised consolidation’ of SSC in the second decade of the 21 st century (Waisbich & Mawdsley, 2022). These measurement battles and impasses at the multilateral level reveal unsolved North–South disputes over power, status, and responsibilities in international development and international affairs, more broadly.…”

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‘It Takes Two to Tango’: South–South Cooperation Measurement Politics in a Multiplex World

Waisbich

2022

Global Policy

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This paper examines whether and how the imperatives of measuring Official Development Assistance (ODA; or development aid) are being translated to the policy world of South-South cooperation (SSC). Through a historical and political ethnographic account of a decade of global policy debates on Southern-led development cooperation between 2009 and 2019, the paper argues that growing conversations on 'SSC effectiveness', and how to measure it, reflect both prevalent 'measurementalities' in the field as well as 'traditional/Northern donor countries' continuous will to socialise and integrate '(re)-emerging Southern providers' into existing aid norms and practices. The paper also demonstrates Southern powerhouses'-such as Brazil, China, and India-agency in these accountability-related debates and their will to integrate differently into the 'aid system' by proposing alternative tools to measure SSC flows and initiatives in their own terms. Finally, the paper argues that unfolding negotiations over quantifying, reporting, and evaluating Southern-led development cooperation reflect the politicised consolidation of SSC in the second decade of the 21st century.Current impasses at the multilateral level, moreover, reveal unsolved North-South disputes over power, status, and responsibility in international development and international affairs, more broadly. | 335SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION MEASUREMENT POLITICS expanded, intertwined with a growing need to account and measure development and development cooperation flows (Fukuda-Parr & McNeill, 2019;Mitchell, 2002;Rottenburg, 2009). Rather than being static, understandings of responsibility and measurement in the field are currently being disputed and (re)negotiated in light of the major geopolitical shifts in the past two decades and the changing geographies of development across the North-South divide. The 'rise of the South' and of South-South Cooperation (SSC) is a major element in this changing landscape (Eyben & Savage, 2013).This paper provides an empirically based account of the ongoing disputes over whether and how to measure SSC. It examines two United Nations (UN) High-Level Conferences on South-South Cooperation (in 2009 and 2019) and treats them as 'diagnosis events' 1 for investigating how the imperatives of measuring Official Development Assistance (ODA; or development aid) are being translated to the policy world of SSC. 2 By doing so, it also examines the effects of growing 'international development measurementalities', as labelled here, on North-South power relations and on broader disputes over responsibilities in the field of global development.The paper makes three major contributions. First, it argues that growing conversations on 'SSC effectiveness', and how to measure it, reflect both prevalent 'measurementalities' in the field as well as 'traditional donor countries"-members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's Development Assistance Committee (OECD-DAC)-continuous will to socialise and integrate Southern countries into existi...

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“…In inter‐governmental negotiations on development, competitive tensions unfold mostly between financially dominant ‘Northern’ donors and vocal ‘Southern’ players, including China and India. At the UN, ‘Northern’ member states regularly put forward demands for ‘Southern’ providers to strengthen the conceptual contours and accountability of ‘South‐South cooperation’ and increase their contributions to global development concerns, but China and India prefer to keep the meaning(s) attached to ‘South‐South cooperation’ broad and inclusive, arguably also in order to reduce external scrutiny (see Haug, 2021a; Waisbich, 2021). Against this backdrop, African diplomats often see no reason ‘to jump into South‐South discussions’.…”

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Africa beyond ‘South‐South cooperation’: A frame with limited resonance

Haug

Kamwengo

2022

J of Intl Development

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With reference to frames as socially determined definitions of reality, this paper examines the discrepancies between the prominence of ‘South‐South cooperation’ terminology in globally dominant discourses and its limited usage by African stakeholders. Based on insights from the United Nations, (cross‐)regional collaboration formats and bilateral cooperation, we find that African officials employ ‘South‐South’ terminology mainly when ‘Northern’ partners are present but use other frames when engaging with developing countries. This limited resonance poses a challenge to multilateral organisations and traditional donors in their attempts to expand engagement with ‘South‐South’ relations. A focus on the usage and effects of frames, we argue, can clarify the assumptions based on which international cooperation unfolds.

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South-South Cooperation

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Active non-alignment: Brazil and the measurement of South-South Development Cooperation

Active non-alignment: Brazil and the measurement of South-South Development Cooperation

‘It Takes Two to Tango’: South–South Cooperation Measurement Politics in a Multiplex World

Africa beyond ‘South‐South cooperation’: A frame with limited resonance

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