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Struggles in Paris: The DAC and the Purposes of Development Aid

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  • Rosalind Eyben

    (University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.)

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This article historicises the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Development Assistance Committee (DAC) as a site where the meanings of development and the purposes of aid were contested and where gradually a more diverse set of actors were invited to engage in the argument. The author's ethnographic approach examines the micro-level processes of ideological struggle in a ‘closed space’ that transformed into an ‘invited’ one. During this transformation, rights-based approaches to development rose and fell within a changing global landscape wherein the DAC seeks to sustain a foothold. The article concludes by considering the future of debates about development within the post-Busan Global Partnership in which the DAC is only one of many stakeholders.Dans une perspective historique, cet article envisage le Comité d’aide au développement (CAD) de l’OCDE comme un espace où les définitions du développement et les objectifs de l’aide ont été contestés et où un ensemble plus diversifié d’acteurs ont progressivement été invités à prendre part au débat. S’inscrivant dans une approche ethnographique, l’auteur examine les microprocessus de lutte idéologique dans un « espace clos » qui s’est transformé en un « espace d’invitation », transformation au cours de laquelle les approches du développement fondées sur les droits de l’homme ont progressé puis reculé dans un contexte global en mutation au sein duquel le CAD cherche à renforcer sa position. L’article conclut en s’interrogeant sur l’avenir des débats concernant le développement dans le cadre du Partenariat mondial de Busan, où le DAC n’est qu’une partie prenante parmi bien d’autres

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  • Rosalind Eyben, 2013. "Struggles in Paris: The DAC and the Purposes of Development Aid," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 25(1), pages 78-91, February.
  • Handle: RePEc:pal:eurjdr:v:25:y:2013:i:1:p:78-91
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    1. Joren Verschaeve & Jan Orbie, 2016. "The DAC is Dead, Long Live the DCF? A Comparative Analysis of the OECD Development Assistance Committee and the UN Development Cooperation Forum," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 28(4), pages 571-587, September.
    2. Erik Lundsgaarde & Niels Keijzer, 2019. "Development Cooperation in a Multilevel and Multistakeholder Setting: From Planning towards Enabling Coordinated Action?," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 31(2), pages 215-234, April.
    3. Gugerty, Mary Kay & Mitchell, George E. & Santamarina, Francisco J., 2021. "Discourses of evaluation: Institutional logics and organizational practices among international development agencies," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 146(C).
    4. Niels Keijzer, 2016. "Open Data on a Closed Shop? Assessing the potential of transparency initiatives with a focus on efforts to strengthen capacity development support," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 34(1), pages 83-100, January.
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    7. Stephen Brown, 2020. "The Rise and Fall of the Aid Effectiveness Norm," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 32(4), pages 1230-1248, September.
    8. Emma Mawdsley & Warwick E. Murray & John Overton & Regina Scheyvens & Glenn Banks, 2018. "Exporting stimulus and “shared prosperity†: Reinventing foreign aid for a retroliberal era," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 36(S1), pages 25-43, March.
    9. Robin Davies & Jonathan Pickering, 2017. "How should development co-operation evolve? Views from developing countries," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 35, pages 10-28, July.
    10. Antonio Sianes, 2021. "Academic Research on the 2030 Agenda: Challenges of a Transdisciplinary Field of Study," Global Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 12(3), pages 286-297, May.

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