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The Vicissitudes of Politics and the Resilience of the Peasantry:The Contestation and Reconfiguration of Political Space in the Peruvian Andes
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‘Muddling through’ by way of modelling:Representing complex relationships
Full text linkThis chapter focuses on the process of ‘muddling through’ by following the process of developing an analytical and theoretical model in the Elites Production and Poverty (EPP) programme. This is done by following the process of modelling in the research programme. Modelling has always been part of Ole Therkildsens’s modus operandi, right from his key work Watering White Elephants in 1988 to his contribution to finalizing the EPP programme with the 2015 Cambridge University Press book, The Politics of African Industrial Policy. What relates the two works is a three-dimensional model first developed by Korten (1980) for capturing the requirements of the learning approach for project implementation. The EPP, after testing various models in an iterative process, ended up further developing Korten’s model. The EPP initiallyused the model to depict key analytical processes, but over time the explanatorymodel became what had to be explained. The complex processes depicted by the model, in other words, went from being an independent variable to being the dependent variable in the final stages of writing up. The chapter is based on models drawn up from the EPP programme and gives form to the research group’s muddling through towards finalizing the book.This chapter focuses on the process of ‘muddling through’ by following the process of developing an analytical and theoretical model in the Elites Production and Poverty (EPP) programme. This is done by following the process of modelling in the research programme. Modelling has always been part of Ole Therkildsens’s modus operandi, right from his key work Watering White Elephants in 1988 to his contribution to finalizing the EPP programme with the 2015 Cambridge University Press book, The Politics of African Industrial Policy. What relates the two works is a three-dimensional model first developed by Korten (1980) for capturing the requirements of the learning approach for project implementation. The EPP, after testing various models in an iterative process, ended up further developing Korten’s model. The EPP initiallyused the model to depict key analytical processes, but over time the explanatorymodel became what had to be explained. The complex processes depicted by the model, in other words, went from being an independent variable to being the dependent variable in the final stages of writing up. The chapter is based on models drawn up from the EPP programme and gives form to the research group’s muddling through towards finalizing the book
Missing Women: The Crowding Out of Gender Equality Norms in Ugandan Microfinance
No full textMicrofinance relies on a normative set of claims around gender equality and women’s economic empowerment. As such, it would seem to be an ideal place to study gender norms in action. A case study from Uganda looks at the offices of the country’s largest microfinance NGO, BRAC and the lives of microfinance beneficiaries in the field. In both situations discussions of gender were largely absent. The chapter explores the reasons for this absence showing the ways in which gender concerns lost out to other agendas. In the office there was a language of efficiency, scale and growth. In the field there was a concern with fraud and inequality. What links both situations were a set of questions about the legitimacy of microfinance as an approach to development
Perspectives on Politics, Production and Public Administration in Africa:Essays in Honour of Ole Therkildsen
Full text linkThe essays in this collection in honour of Ole Therkildsen analyse attempts to create development in Africa over the last half century. They have been written by specialists in development and African politics who have all interacted with Ole Therkildsen as researchers or development practitioners. The essays cover issues related to foreign aid, local government, public administration, taxation, agriculture and political systems, these being the central sites where development efforts are ordinarily undertaken. The thread running through the essays is a common concern with politics, how it should be understood and how it shapes development. In Africa, as elsewhere in the world, politics isdecisive for change, but poorly understood, sometimes neglected, and often depicted using rigid models. The book seeks to dig below the surface and do justice to the complexity of the politics of production and public administration in Africa.The essays in this collection in honour of Ole Therkildsen analyse attempts to create development in Africa over the last half century. They have been written by specialists in development and African politics who have all interacted with Ole Therkildsen as researchers or development practitioners. The essays cover issues related to foreign aid, local government, public administration, taxation, agriculture and political systems, these being the central sites where development efforts are ordinarily undertaken. The thread running through the essays is a common concern with politics, how it should be understood and how it shapes development. In Africa, as elsewhere in the world, politics isdecisive for change, but poorly understood, sometimes neglected, and often depicted using rigid models. The book seeks to dig below the surface and do justice to the complexity of the politics of production and public administration in Africa
Creating local democratic politics from above the "Gestion des terroirs" approach in Burkina Faso
No full textThe politics of gender in Danish foreign aid
No full textSince the mid-1980s women and gender equality have constituted a major priority in Danish foreign aid. For many years the issue has been one of three cross-cutting concerns ranked just below the overall objective of poverty reduction. This paper describes the development of gender policies in Denmark's official foreign aid and analyses the degree to which they reflect domestic politics and circumstances and to what extent organisational concerns in Danida and global norms on gender influence the policies. The tentative conclusion is that global norms play an important (and perhaps increasing) role, together with the normative environment in Denmark, while direct stakeholders seemingly have had a declining influence on the policies
Decentralised aid management today: Perspectives on an evaluation
No full textThe paper considers different possibilities for an evaluation of Danish aid management by outlining major changes of international and Danish development co-operation over the last 20 years. It involves the discussion of aid management in general and in relation to pragmatic co-operation approaches in particular, as well as the investigation of particular elements of the management of Danish development co-operation. It concludes that Danish and international development co-operation has changed significantly, due partly to aid management being assessed differently today compared to 10-15 years ago. Notably, the Danish development co-operation has required new aid management approaches, as it changed its focus from relatively stable poor countries to a diversity of countries including many fragile situations. Thus, an evaluation of Danish aid management and of the current status of the significant decentralisation of aid management to the Danish embassies in the early 2000s can no longer be usefully undertaken based only on the principles of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness from 2005, but needs to include other evaluation criteria as well
Global norms on the elimination of violence against women
No full textDo global norms change? This paper argues that the global norms on the elimination of violence against women first agreed upon in connection with the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women in 1993 have changed in subsequent agreements at the UN. These agreements include the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women, 1995; the agreed conclusions of the 42nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW42), 1998; the agreed conclusions of the 57th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW57), 2013; and the agreed conclusions of the 65th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW65), 2021. The agreements are analysed in detail using a methodology based on interpretative content analysis. Five different elements of the normative regime associated with the issue are identified. They have to do with framework, responsible actors, approach, sites, and definition of violence against women. In relation to three of these normative elements, significant change has taken place since 1993. This paper does not put the findings into theoretical context or analyse the causes of normative change
Climate change negotiations and their implications for international development cooperation
No full textThis report discusses possible implications of the international attempts to address climate change for the organization of development cooperation. It concentrates on questions related to institutions and resources and pays less attention to potential consequences for the objectives and contents of development cooperation. The institutional question is limited to the norms, practices and organizations that emerge primarily at the international level in response to climate change. The resource question deals with the capital that needs to be mobilized to mitigate climate change and to finance the costs of adaptation to climate change in developing countries
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