Image above: The four operational departments of the SDC Transcript Which goals for global development post-2015 are important for Switzerland? Switzerland is likely to promote as stand-alone goals: agenda for equality, health, water as well as peace and security. We also try to ensure that issues like disaster risk reduction, sustainable consumption and production patterns are not lost on the way to a new set of goals. What do you consider to be the challenges for negotiating a global agreement? Working under time pressure, being participatory as much as possible, in an agenda that is ...
Robert Chambers of the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex argues in these two posts on the Aid on the Edge of Chaos blog (click also here) that many of the failures of development policy and practice have stemmed from the dominance of the “things paradigm”. In the last decade, linear logic, assumptions of predictability, objectively verifiable indicators, impact assessments, logframes and results-based management were more and more required by donors and increasingly applied to the uncontrollable, unpredictable, diverse and less measurable “people and processes paradigm”. Shifts in technology and advances in the complexity sciences are ...
Much of development policy is geared toward increasing investment and creating the conditions that allow private capital flows to take the place of development assistance. Investments designed specifically to promote development have been increasing. They go by many names, including what the European Commission calls “the blending of loans and grants” or “support to leverage other sources of funding”. The Center for Global Development’s paper “More than Money. Impact Investing for Development” argues that although impact investing - investment in business models that are for-profit, but that will, if successful, create an impact beyond profits ...
ECDPM’s Jeske van Seters gave a presentation on “Aid Effectiveness from an EU Perspective” on 15 November to the Finnish Development Policy Committee, an advisory body appointed by the Finnish Government to inform, monitor and evaluate Finnish development policy. The presentation outlines global trends and the evolving development scene and the role of EU aid effectiveness within this. It also sets out the opportunities and risks ahead for EU aid effectiveness, in particular within the new post-Lisbon treaty framework. This session, and other deliberations of the Committee, are to feed into their annual review of ...
