How do we help? : the free market of development aid
Patrick Develtere (Author), Huib Huyse (Contributor)
The balance sheet of 50 years of development aidOver the past 50 years the West has invested over 3000 billion euro in development aid and already tackled many problems. Now more and more countries and organisations present themselves on the development aid scene, including China, India, and foundations such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Companies, trade unions, co-operatives, schools and towns set up their own projects in remote African regions. But can each and everybody become a development worker? Who decides what is acceptable and what is not? What is the role of the developin
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Preface; Introduction; Development cooperation: community, arena and, increasingly, market ; An expanding community; An arena with plenty to fight over; A market with many transactions; From colonialism to the Millennium Development Goals; Colonial warm-up exercises; Technical cooperation and knowledge transfer; Faith in development aid; Development cooperation: aid in a global setting; The Washington Consensus and structural adjustments; International cooperation and the Millennium Development Goals; Addressing poverty in exchange for debt relief; Is Paris introducing order to the market? More than development aidCooperation means partners; Internationally: among specialists; Recipient countries: donor darlings and donor orphans; Official bilateral cooperation: fractions and fragmentation; Small players and institutional pluralism; In search of an institutional foundation for development cooperation; Decentralisation in order to get closer to the public, or for other reasons?; Europe's development cooperation patchwork; Seeking identity and complementarity; From Yaoundé to Cotonou: from association to agreement; Strengths and weaknesses of the ACP-EU partnership. The Cotonou AgreementThe European Development Fund; Other instruments; Europe: a major pioneer?; A choice in favour of Africa?; Multilateral cooperation: the UN galaxy; The UN and development cooperation; The World Bank: not a cooperative; Regional development banks; The United Nations Development Programme; The rise of new vertical programmes on the UN market; 'Deliver as one': seeking cooperation on the market; The NGDOs: bringing values onto the market; A movement with many faces; A sector with many roles; Several generations of NGDOs; A sector with many different visions and strategies. A movement with a plural support baseThe sector breaks free from the NGDOs; Is a new social movement becoming a network movement?; A fourth pillar on the market; The key players of the fourth pillar; A new generation of altruists?; Starting from a different field; An alternative way of working; Mainstreaming development cooperation; Humanitarian aid: in good shape or going downhill? ; What place for emergency aid?; Needs and promises; Cash-and-carry on the market?; The unbearable lightness of the support for development cooperation; The uneasy relationship with the support base. No (more) aid fatigue?Popular, yet little understood; Something needs to be done: but by whom?; Drawing up the balance sheet; Progress, but too little, too slowly and not for everyone; Are we really that generous?; Who is receiving aid?; The effectiveness and impact of development cooperation; Development cooperation: a stumbling-block?; Conclusion; Abbreviations; Endnotes; Glossary; Bibliography