The South–South Partnership Puzzle: The Brazilian Health Expert Community in Mozambique

Esteves, Paulo; Assunção, Manaíra

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“…Rather, Brazilian SSDC projects abroad are implemented by Brazilian public servants from domestic specialised agencies, such as the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) for health, the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) for agriculture, the SENAI system for industrial training, specific ministries or universities. Such institutions act with important levels of autonomy vis-à-vis ABC or the MRE and lead projects with a strong influence of their internal culture (Leite, Pomeroy, and Suyama 2015;Esteves and Assunção 2017;Lima 2017;De Bruyn 2018). Nevertheless, because ABC is dependent on the MRE, diplomats play a crucial role at the Ministry or in Brazilian Embassies in Africa and Latin America, negotiating the cooperation agreements and sometimes mediating the implementation of projects.…”

Section: Brazilian South-south Development Cooperation (Ssdc): Transf...mentioning

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“…Fiocruz has an important history with Latin American Social Medicine networks, which translates into specific views of health and the role of the state, enshrined in the 1988 Brazilian Constitution as the right to public health, and through a programmatic concept developed by Fiocruz, the Brazilian Structural South-South Cooperation in Health (C. Almeida et al 2010;Esteves and Assunção 2017). Throughout the 2000s, Fiocruz and the Ministry of Health extended their networks to Lusophone countries in Africa and invested in the agenda for health collaboration within the Union of South American Nations (Unasur) (Ventura 2013;Carillo Roa and Baptista 2015;Santos and Cerqueira 2015;Fonseca and Buss 2017).…”

Section: The Project To Install a Drug Plant In Mozambique In Brazil'...mentioning

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“…The publications authored or co-authored by Brazilian civil servants documented thoroughly the steps of the implementation shedding a light on political, legal, and practical challenges faced by this 'unorthodox' SSC project (Rodrigues 2014;Russo et al 2014;Russo and de Oliveira 2016). As with other Brazilian SSC initiatives, scholars also interrogate how the practical conditions of the project vary from the official discourse, from the translation gaps around the vocabulary and concepts at the heart of the initiative to the asymmetries of power and capabilities, contradictions and dilemmas posed by the implementation (Cesarino 2013;Abdenur and Marcondes 2017;Esteves and Assunção 2017).…”

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How Do Experts Resist a Development Cooperation Project? The Case of the Mozambique-Brazil Generic Medicine Factory

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The cooperation between Brazil and Mozambique to set up a state-owned generic medicines factory in Mozambique has been identified as an innovative unorthodox South-South development collaboration. Its implementation – with its translations, adaptations, gaps and contradictions – makes it an interesting object for the socio-anthropology of development and public action. One approach in this field is to focus on the resistance by target groups of development projects. Previous research highlighted the criticisms of the ‘factory project’ implementation or the discrepancies of discourse and representations of the project between Mozambican and Brazilian officials. However, during the negotiation process, key health experts from both countries voluntarily withdrew from the project design or were critics of its conception and evolution. Focusing on what could be seen as a form of resistance, we will analyse who are the experts that distanced themselves, their reasons, and interrogate how their withdrawal led to some of the gaps and translation issues in the implementation process. The present article draws on interviews in Brazil, Mozambique and Europe with health and pharmaceutical experts, diplomats and government officials. We also analysed government reports from both countries, including archives from the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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“…A CES é fundamentada em três pilares principais: a determinação social da saúde, a cooperação internacional em perspectiva colaborativa e o planejamento estratégico em saúde BUSS, 2017). Os determinantes sociais da saúde "são entendidos como fatores sociais, econômicos, culturais, étnicos/raciais, psicológicos e comportamentais que influenciam a ocorrência de problemas de saúde e seus fatores de risco na população" (BUSS; PELLEGRINI, 2006, p. 22), e essa ideia serviu como pilar da abordagem da Saúde Coletiva que orientou o Movimento pela Reforma Sanitária no Brasil a partir dos anos 1960 (NUNES, 1996 apud FONSECA;BUSS, 2017) e também foi defendida regionalmente no âmbito da Organização Pan-Americana da Saúde (OPAS) desde os anos 1970 (ESTEVES; ASSUNÇÃO, 2017). A Saúde Coletiva é crítica da inefetividade da abordagem principalmente individualizada e curativa no âmbito da saúde pública, notadamente em países em desenvolvimento (COSTA, 2014;BUSS, 2017).…”

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Estudo comparativo das trajetórias de cooperação bilateral estruturante em saúde entre o Brasil e os membros da CPLP e da Unasul

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2022

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Este artigo busca verificar e comparar a catalisação de cooperação estruturante em saúde (CES) bilateral entre o Brasil e, por um lado, os Estados-membros da CPLP e, por outro, da Unasul, a partir da constituição dessas organizações e suas estruturas dedicadas à CES. A literatura especializada e os documentos oficiais sugerem que esta catalisação ocorre, e o presente estudo busca testar esta hipótese. Isso é feito através de um estudo de caso comparativo, baseado na análise das trajetórias de CES bilateral nos dois casos citados, construídas a partir de dados sobre acordos bilaterais firmados entre o Brasil e os membros da CPLP e da Unasul. Além de testar a hipótese, este artigo também discute o que os dados sugerem sobre as possibilidades de delimitação da CES pela política externa brasileira (PEB) de cada período ou pelas organizações multilaterais. Os dados sugerem que, no caso da CPLP, ocorre catalisação a partir do PECS 2009-2012, mas ela não se mostra sustentável, pois finda em 2012. No caso da Unasul, há catalisação de CES bilateral a partir da constituição da instituição e do Conselho de Saúde, e essa se mantém pelo menos até 2021, apesar da inércia da Unasul e das mudanças na PEB em saúde no período.

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“…Studies that empirically evaluate SSC practices are scarce on the IR field (BRICS Policy Center 2017; Rizzo 2019). Investigations carried out by Milani and Lopes (2014) and Esteves and Assunção (2017) that analyse SSC in health between Brazil and Mozambique through interviews with Mozambican technicians, and by Dri and Silva (2019), that analyse the practices of the Centre of Excellence Against Hunger through interviews with the Brazilian technicians, are exceptions. For Milani and Lopes (2014), 'belonging to a community of historical sense (countries speaking the same language and sharing colonial experience) can facilitate [cooperation] but does not elude different forms of international insertion and the trajectory of the development' (Milani and Lopes 2014: 71 our translation).…”

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International dialogical action: the decolonial potential of structuring cooperation in health promoted by Brazil

Pozzatti

Farias

2022

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The benefits of an empirical assessment of South-South cooperation (SSC) are currently being debated in the critical literature on this subject. This assessment could distinguish SSC practices from other cooperation practices and increase its transparency, social control, and credibility. In this sense, this paper theoretically assesses the dialogical/decolonial potential of structuring cooperation in health (SCH), a model of SSC created by Brazil; and analyses the applicability of different heuristics for international agreements and interinstitutional projects to empirically assess this potential. In theory, the SCH narrative is compatible with the decolonial literature mentioned in this paper. However, case studies from the fields of International Relations (IR) and Global Health diverge about this compatibility based on empirical observation. Nonetheless, heuristics from the field of International Law and Policy Transfer studies can help to recognize the decolonial potential inscribed in international agreements. In order to advance in the assessment of the dialogic character of SCH through projects, this paper argues that, institutionally, it is necessary to define the categories inscribed in them and make their monitoring and evaluation reports public. It concludes that the IR field needs to absorb the knowledge from the health sector and its technicians – something that does not occur in Latin America given the low interest in this sector.

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The South–South Partnership Puzzle: The Brazilian Health Expert Community in Mozambique

Cited by 3 publications

References 16 publications

How Do Experts Resist a Development Cooperation Project? The Case of the Mozambique-Brazil Generic Medicine Factory

How Do Experts Resist a Development Cooperation Project? The Case of the Mozambique-Brazil Generic Medicine Factory

Estudo comparativo das trajetórias de cooperação bilateral estruturante em saúde entre o Brasil e os membros da CPLP e da Unasul

International dialogical action: the decolonial potential of structuring cooperation in health promoted by Brazil

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