Whose partnership? Regional participatory arrangements in CBC programming on the Finnish–Russian border

Fritsch, Matti; Németh, Sarolta; Piipponen, Minna; Yarovoy, Gleb

doi:10.1080/09654313.2015.1096916

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“…The participation of capable local stakeholders helps to improve the relevance of the programs and promotes reaching a consensus [62]. While it is generally accepted that the public sector is a partner for international development assistance, albeit with minimal possibilities to influence decisions [63], the involvement of NPOs is still limited [64]. Thus, the capacities of local stakeholders are important for setting up efficient international programs.…”

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The Effects of External Financial Support on the Capacities of Educational Nonprofit Organizations

Potluka

Švecová

2019

Sustainability

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Official development assistance provides an immense flow of financial funding to educational nonprofit organizations (NPOs). This source of funding faces criticism because of the unintended indirect effects it has in lowering the relative level of local NPOs’ capacities. Our contribution addresses NPOs’ financial capacities in an OECD country that receives a vast inflow of EU funding; namely the Czech Republic. To answer the research question on what impact the external financial assistance has on capacities in NPOs, we applied propensity score matching to a sample consisting of 633 educational NPOs covering the years 2006–2013. EU-funded NPOs report higher levels of real revenues, but not real assets, than non-funded NPOs. The EU funding helps in the short-term to improve NPOs’ budgets, but not to increase assets.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Effects of External Financial Support on the Capacities of Educational Nonprofit Organizations

Potluka

Švecová

2019

Sustainability

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“…This has led, in its part, to a higher interaction between the Finnish and Russian population and consequently to an increased integration between various actors on different sides of the border (Eskelinen et al 2013). Evidently, whereas in the beginning of this century the level or speed of economic integration between Finland and Russia was still considered as sluggish at best (Rautio and Tykkyläinen 2001), today the importance of CBC and interaction are considered as vital for the future developments on both sides of the Finnish-Russian border (Liikanen et al 2007;Fritsch et al 2015).…”

Section: Cross-border Cooperation At the Finnish-russian Bordermentioning

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A social network analysis of cooperation in forest, mining and tourism industries in the Finnish–Russian cross-border region: connectivity, hubs and robustness

Makkonen

Hokkanen

Suharev

2018

Eurasian Geography and Economics

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In this article the distribution and intensity of cross-border cooperation networks are tested with primary survey and interview data collected from the Finnish-Russian cross-border region. The study concentrates on the cross-border connectivity of three regionally significant and interlocking sectors (forest, mining and tourism industries together with associated research and administrative organisations) with varying strategies towards natural resource use. The collected survey and interview data were examined by applying social network analysis tools developed for cross-border contexts. The results depict varying landscapes of cross-border cooperation depending on the type (firms, research and administrative organisations) of the surveyed actors. Overall the studied cross-border cooperation network is weakly developed with low firm-level participation and low integration between the sectors -a weakness in the sustainable utilisation of natural resources. Cross-border cooperation is in its most intensive between local administrative organisations. Local administrative and research organisations are the network hubs in the studied cross-border region. As a positive note, the cross-border cooperation network is not solely reliant on these few network hubs but also consists of several moderately connected cross-border actors that increase its robustness against cross-border network failures. The emergence of new and the deepening of the existing cross-border links between the various industries would be pivotal for good policy design regarding local land-use and natural resource use policies.

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“…Since regional council members are not elected by the public, discussions of a democratic deficit arose. The JMAs in the regional councils in Finland are considered to act in the interests of the central authority in Helsinki (Fritsch et al, 2015: 2588). The Finnish central state authorities remain therefore key actors in the Finnish–Russian cooperation process despite the JMAs’ location in the Finnish regional councils, creating power imbalances within the ENI CBC programmes.…”

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“…Fritsch et al (2015: 2584) have argued that the Finnish–Russian ENI CBC programmes are in their ‘operation and cooperation largely kept free of historical baggage and geopolitical questions’. This argument conveys the perception of an apolitical MLG structure of Finnish–Russian ENI CBC.…”

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The role of territoriality in the European Union multi-level governmental cooperation framework of Finnish–Russian cross-border cooperation

Koch

2017

European Urban and Regional Studies

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The economic sanctions in the wake of the Ukrainian crisis threatened external cross-border cooperation (CBC) funded by the European Neighbourhood Instrument (ENI) in the summer of 2014. The European Union considered several of the ENI CBC programmes that Finland and Russia participate in for the sanctions list. These programmes are implemented by a multiplicity of actors that include supra-national, national and regional authorities and form a dense actor-network with vertical and horizontal relations. The political relations between the actors are influenced by geopolitical discourses, bordering effects and power imbalances that are conceptualised in this paper as practices of territoriality. Previous research has insufficiently addressed the territoriality of actor relations within the multi-level governance (MLG) structures of CBC. Territoriality is present in MLG in the sense that CBC actors from various political levels significantly contribute to the territorial logic of political power by promoting their own interests towards cooperation practices. The research problem in this paper stems from the alleged non-hierarchical organisation of actors in CBC and argues that MLG policy structures do not render equality among the different actors and that they fail to consider the impact of territoriality. The paper investigates how territoriality influences the actor relations in the MLG structure of ENI CBC and how the actors cope with the frictions that emerge out of territoriality. Qualitative interviews reveal a conflicting system of governance in Finnish–Russian ENI CBC that fluctuates between state centrality and region-based initiatives to address frictions of various territorialit(ies) produced by actors.

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Whose partnership? Regional participatory arrangements in CBC programming on the Finnish–Russian border

Cited by 12 publications

References 10 publications

The Effects of External Financial Support on the Capacities of Educational Nonprofit Organizations

The Effects of External Financial Support on the Capacities of Educational Nonprofit Organizations

A social network analysis of cooperation in forest, mining and tourism industries in the Finnish–Russian cross-border region: connectivity, hubs and robustness

The role of territoriality in the European Union multi-level governmental cooperation framework of Finnish–Russian cross-border cooperation

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