[August 2010]
THE BRAVE NEW WORLD OF “EMERGING”, “NON-DAC” DONORS AND THEIR SUPPORT TO HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
The next issue of NORRAG NEWS (NN44) is dedicated to an analysis of the new development partners, sometimes termed emerging donors. This latter is not a very useful term and especially as it is often used to refer to India, China and South Korea which have been involved in development cooperation for a very long time. These newer actors in development assistance are also sometime called non-DAC donors. This is also a misleading and a rather negative way of defining this very diverse group, as some of these new development assistance partners are new EU member states, others are OECD members but not of its Development Assistance Committee (DAC), others are Gulf States, while others again are members of the group called BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). And there are many more.
We are not, in this issue, dealing with the very diverse and complex world of private sector aid or aid from foundations; these may be analysed in a future special issue of NORRAG NEWS. Rather, we are looking at the whole range of non-traditional bilateral actors from India to Indonesia; from Chile to China; and from Turkey to Thailand.
There is a very wide range of these non-traditional, newer donors, and several of them are from countries where our NORRAG membership is not large, such as South Korea, Russia and Saudi Arabia. In other cases, such as South Africa, India, China, Chile and Brazil, we have quite large NORRAG memberships.
Here are some of issues we are dealing with in analysing these non-traditional donors, or newer development partners:
* How different are their approaches and modalities from those of the more traditional DAC donors, always remembering that there are very substantial differences amongst DAC donors?
* How tied is the aid offered by these newer donors and how important are the national experts of these countries in aid delivery?
* How are these newer donors perceived in the countries they are supporting?
* How regionally oriented is this new cooperation, and how much does it cross continents like Brazil’s support to countries in Africa?
* What can the older donors learn from these newer development partners?
* Are academics and consultants from countries associated with the DAC donors giving advice to any of the newer development partners?
* What does the rise of these new donors mean for donor coordination?
* Are these newer development partners involved in the countries where NORRAG’s two partners, ERNWACA (in West and Central Africa) and RedEtis (in Latin America), are operating?
For further information, please email: Kenneth King, Editor, NORRAG NEWS Kenneth.king@ed.ac.uk
Deadline: 16th August
Length: 1-2 pages of A4 (font size 12, single-spaced, Times New Roman)
Languages accepted: English, French, Spanish
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