Subsystem politics and policy coherence in development cooperation: Evidence from four EU Member States

Prontera, Andrea

doi:10.1057/cep.2014.30

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“…Ideally, this results in better models, as when difficulties in achieving expected outcomes in international development efforts led to the development of more systemic approaches, such as one called policy coherence development (PCD; Verschaeve, Delputte, & Orbie, 2016). If the PCD approach appears useful, the next step would be, as Prontera () describes, to investigate more systematically the limits of the model, not only the limits to its generality but also, for those contexts where it seems to apply, what is left out or misconstrued. This iterative refinement is the focus of adaptive management discussed next.…”

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Supporting Transitions to Sustainability: Evaluation for Managing Processes in the Public Interest

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2019

New Drctns Evaluation

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Sustainability as a goal is often a major consideration in policy debates and is becoming more so in the field of evaluation. This rising profile, however, creates challenges because the contexts where sustainability is evaluated can be complex in ways that standard evaluation is less equipped to address. After addressing conditions that add to this complexity, recommendations are made to counter three problems. First, with a traditional focus on support for achieving outcomes, evaluators have tended to neglect support for managing processes. Second, with the largely accepted goal of influencing selected outcomes, evaluators have tended to neglect influencing established systems and so have been less prepared to support managing transitions from unsustainable to sustainable practices. Third, judging the value of public initiatives involves assumptions that, when applied to sustainability, can result in overly narrow and biased understandings of the public interest.

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“…7 We are grateful to the Belgian delegation to the OECD, in particular to Martinus Desmet and Lieven De La Marche. 8 At a more general level, it should be noted that other dynamics also account for the rise of PCD on the western donor aid agenda, ranging from the changing development landscape to securitization trends or an emerging trend towards thinking beyond aid (Prontera, 2016;Thede, 2013). of the HLFs in Paris and Accra.…”

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“… At a more general level, it should be noted that other dynamics also account for the rise of PCD on the western donor aid agenda, ranging from the changing development landscape to securitization trends or an emerging trend towards thinking beyond aid (Prontera, ; Thede, ). …”

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Ignoring the elephant in the room? Assessing the impact of the European Union on the Development Assistance Committee's role in international development

Verschaeve

Orbie

2018

Development Policy Review

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This article studies the impact of the European Union (EU) on the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development (OECD). While the literature thus far has focused on the external challenges for the DAC's role in international development, this study argues that the EU should be taken into account as well. By focusing on the cases of policy coherence for development and the concessionality of official development assistance (ODA) loans, we show that the EU poses a structural challenge for the DAC's role in international development given the strong overlap in membership between both institutions and the Union's changing nature as a development actor.

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“…The first type of resistance, which has attracted most attention in existing studies, is linked to the 'compartmentalisation' of public policy (Forster and Stokke, 1999;Ashoff, 2005;Adelle and Jordan, 2014;Prontera, 2014). Decisions affecting the developing world involve several policy fields -each characterised by a different set of interests, institutions, and ideas.…”

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“…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). The European Union (EU), recognised as one of the forerunners in PCD discourses (Hoebink, 2004;Carbone, 2012), has also pursued this type of approach.…”

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

Carbone

Keijzer

2015

Eur J Dev Res

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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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Subsystem politics and policy coherence in development cooperation: Evidence from four EU Member States

Cited by 6 publications

References 11 publications

Supporting Transitions to Sustainability: Evaluation for Managing Processes in the Public Interest

Supporting Transitions to Sustainability: Evaluation for Managing Processes in the Public Interest

Ignoring the elephant in the room? Assessing the impact of the European Union on the Development Assistance Committee's role in international development

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

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