Audit as Accountability: Technical Authority and Expertise in the Governance of Private Financing for Development

Global Economy ◽

Policy And Practice ◽

Public And Private ◽

Development Finance ◽

External Finance ◽

Development Goals ◽

Private Actors ◽

Private Financing

The paper examines the emergence of a new landscape of international development finance that is blurring traditional boundaries between public and private resources for meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and other global public goods (GPGs). In the SDG financing ecosystem, private actors are no longer passive bystanders in the development process but as active contributors to and investors in development projects and programmes. The paper argues that the emerging ‘private turn’ in the architecture of development finance represents a technology of governance that is rooted in the assemblage of international development policy and practice. This regime constitutes an emerging complex and often problematic framework of organising and managing countries’ access to external finance and establishing their terms of engagement with the broader global economy.

Disrupting Development? A Situated Perspective on Technology and Innovation in Global Development

Progress in Development Studies ◽

10.1177/14649934211018399 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 146499342110183

Author(s):

Adam Moe Fejerskov ◽

Dane Fetterer

Keyword(s):

Global Development ◽

Public And Private ◽

Technology And Innovation ◽

Innovation And Technology ◽

Development Goals ◽

Private Actors ◽

Situated Perspective ◽

Radical Technologies

This article analyses the growing ubiquity of radical technologies and disruptive methodologies in global development. Accelerated by the broad nature of the Sustainable Development Goals, disruption and its related notions of innovation and technology have gradually made it to the centre of attention in development, shaping public and private actors and interventions alike. The article employs a situated analysis of disruption in development to show that as the concept is moving into the field of global development, its meaning and practice is continually—and even contradictorily—reconstructed in constant negotiation with its possible effects. We argue that, beyond a simple buzzword, disruption is employed strategically by different by actors to pursue certain political goals, revealing current movements and lines of discord in the field of global development. While emerging actors use it to challenge the legitimacy of existing donors, more traditional or established actors employ it with a view to remaining relevant in the field, pushing back against the challenge from emerging ones. These interpretative struggles thus are not just isolated ones determining the legitimacy of individual actors but are important for the way they set markers for what development is today, who can legitimately contribute to it and the purposes for which development is pursued.

The United Nations and the Governance of Sustainable Development Goals

Governing through Goals ◽

10.7551/mitpress/9780262035620.003.0009 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Steven Bernstein

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

United Nations ◽

Leadership Role ◽

Public And Private ◽

Development Goals ◽

The United Nations ◽

High Level ◽

Private Actors

The United Nations – with the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development playing a leadership role – is a central and necessary governance node to make progress on the Sustainable Development Goals. However, their scope and nature as goals and the normative character of sustainable development that demands integrative and coherent governance create significant challenges not easily met by traditional tools of multilateralism. Governance arrangements must therefore balance political authority at the global level with recognition that action and resources must also be mobilized at regional, national, and local levels and by a wide range of public and private actors. The High-level Political Forum must, therefore, be an orchestrator of orchestrators that promotes coordination within a fragmented governance space. This chapter assesses the prospects of UN-led governance under these circumstances and identifies key institutional mechanisms and conditions under which they have the best likelihood of mobilizing action on the Sustainable Development Goals.

Global Health and International Development

The Oxford Handbook of Global Health Politics ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190456818.013.14 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 216-235

Author(s):

Andrew Harmer ◽

Jonathan Kennedy

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Global Health ◽

Economic System ◽

Development Goals ◽

The Relationship ◽

Global Population

This chapter explores the relationship between international development and global health. Contrary to the view that development implies ‘good change’, this chapter argues that the discourse of development masks the destructive and exploitative practices of wealthy countries at the expense of poorer ones. These practices, and the unregulated capitalist economic system that they are part of, have created massive inequalities between and within countries, and potentially catastrophic climate change. Both of these outcomes are detrimental to global health and the millennium development goals and sustainable development goals do not challenge these dynamics. While the Sustainable Development Goals acknowledge that inequality and climate change are serious threats to the future of humanity, they fail to address the economic system that created them. Notwithstanding, it is possible that the enormity and proximity of the threat posed by inequality and global warming will energise a counter movement to create what Kate Raworth terms ‘an ecologically safe and socially just space’ for the global population while there is still time.

Green Tourism in the Context of Sustainable Development and the Challenges Posed by the Global Economic Crisis

THE PROBLEMS OF ECONOMY ◽

10.32983/2222-0712-2020-3-11-17 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (45) ◽

pp. 11-17

Author(s):

T. O. Zinchuk ◽

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T. V. Usiuk ◽

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Economic Crisis ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Global Economy ◽

Tourism Development ◽

The Face ◽

Green Tourism ◽

The articles aims to substantiate the socio-economic, environmental, historical and cultural role played by green tourism and its contribution to the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals based on current innovative trends and capabilities of tourism in the face of challenges posed by the ongoing crisis in global economy caused by the latest pandemic. The objectives of the research were to detail the theoretical, methodological and applied approaches to the development of green tourism, which is a market sector providing travel services. The definition of green tourism has been made more profound through connecting it with the Sustainable Development Goals, which is rather logical. The motivating factors for the development of green tourism have been analyzed taking into account the model of multifunctionality in agriculture and its importance in rural development policy. The nature of changes in the green tourism sector has been identified with respect to the peculiarities of the current global situation, when a pandemic is restraining the world tourism intensity, on the one hand, and is stimulating local tourism, on the other. It is worth adding that local tourism is mostly green and focused on the conservation of the environmental and natural resources, as well as sustainment of mostly rural areas. The research carried out shows that green tourism can become a driving force for economic growth in rural areas, a motivator for employment, a factor in preserving rural culture and traditions in a particular area. At the same time, the results of the research prove the existence of a link between green tourism and national economic, environmental, socio-cultural, intellectual, energy security due to the most typical development priorities of such tourism. On analyzing the experience of the countries that suffered the pandemic most, we have found some prospects for green tourism development. It is a new system of partnership between the state, business and civil society which can become an additional incentive to preserve the potential of green tourism. Thus, strategic guidelines for green tourism development based on institutional priorities, with the current economic crisis challenges in mind, have been designed.

Unsustainable measures? Assessing global competence in PISA 2018

Education Policy Analysis Archives ◽

10.14507/epaa.29.4716 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 29 ◽

pp. 122

Author(s):

Harsha Chandir ◽

Radhika Gorur

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Science And Technology Studies ◽

Global Citizenship ◽

Student Assessment ◽

Global Competence ◽

Policy And Practice ◽

Documentary Analysis ◽

Or Practice ◽

In the context of rising fundamentalism, urgent threats to the environment, and the persistence of poverty and deep inequities in the world, 193 nations have pledged to work towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) crafted by UNESCO in 2015. Education is seen as key to attaining all the other SDGs. Within the ‘education goal’ (Goal #4), there is an explicit target, SDG 4.7, which focuses on ‘sustainable development and global citizenship’. Nations are expected to incorporate a focus on SDG 4.7 into their curricula, policies, teacher education programs, and student assessment. PISA has now developed an assessment of ‘global competence,’ which is presented as a way to assess SDG 4.7. Through this assessment, it seeks to inform policy, curricula, and pedagogies and catalogue ‘best practices’ for developing students’ ‘global competence’. Given this ambition and the centrality of ‘sustainable development and global citizenship’ within the globally endorsed SDGs, it is important to analyze the extent to which the PISA assessment of global competence is usefully able to inform policy and practice and contribute to fulfilling SDG 4.7. We build upon the work of other scholars examining this question, taking a material-semiotic approach inspired by Science and Technology Studies. Empirically, our study is based on documentary analysis, interviews, and ‘survey encounters’ in which we administered a curated part of the assessment to 15-year-olds and followed this exercise with interviews. We explore how the hard-won stability gained around the notion of ‘global competence’ through its inscription into the standardized survey instruments is again threatened when the survey instrument encounters diverse 15-year-olds. The survey encounters provide an opportunity to ‘test the test’, and we conclude that the PISA test of global competence is not as yet in a position to provide useful direction to policy or practice in the promotion of SDG 4.7.

Advances in Public Policy and Administration - Examining the Private Sector's Role in Wealth Creation and Poverty Reduction ◽

Changing the Boundaries of Expectations

10.4018/978-1-5225-3117-3.ch007 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 138-170 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Virginia Munro

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Multinational Enterprises ◽

Shared Value ◽

Public And Private ◽

The World ◽

Csr Strategy ◽

World Economic ◽

The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, incorporating the Business and Sustainable Development Commission (BSDC), has stated more rapid attention needs to be directed to implementation of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (also known as Global Goals) by 2030, and this is particularly the case in developing countries. Strategy with this type of inclusion is at the forefront of the solution to current global climatic change and escalating social problems such as poverty, hunger, and inequality. This chapter argues that multinational enterprises (MNEs) are in an excellent position to implement Social Initiatives (SIs) as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) framework and incorporate this into their CSR strategy. This will allow MNEs to be key instigators of SDG implementation and collaboration across sectors, governments, and public and private entities. This chapter provides an explanation of the various frameworks that support MNEs to implement SDGs, and describes the requirements for implementation, followed by a summary of 15 case studies where SDGs have been successfully implemented within a Shared Value and CSR context.

The Role of Business in International Development and the Attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals

10.1017/9781108907293.006 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 86-114

Author(s):

Katerina Akestoridi

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

International development assistance and health

Health Equity in a Globalizing Era ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198835356.003.0007 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 140-163

Author(s):

Ronald Labonté ◽

Arne Ruckert

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Global Health ◽

Development Assistance ◽

Macroeconomic Policies ◽

Health Gains ◽

Development Goals ◽

The 1960S ◽

Open Question

The pursuit of global health gains has been one the aims of international development policy for several decades. Along with migration, trade agreements and dominant macroeconomic policies (i.e., neoliberalism), development assistance (aid) is one of the defining elements of contemporary globalization, a noblesse oblige on the part of wealthier nations to support the improvement of lives in poorer, often former colonized, nations. Rarely achieving its stated commitments, and declining since its peak-generosity in the 1960s, aid has been subject to intense disagreements, vacillating between being seen as creating a neocolonial dependency, to arguments for its absolute necessity in saving lives. Since 2000 the aid discourse has been dominated by global development goals, the first set expiring in 2015 (the Millennium Development Goals) and the next and more exhaustive set running until 2030 (the Sustainable Development Goals). Whether these new goals will deliver on their commitments remains an open question.

Reducing the Knowledge Gap in Global Health Delivery

Randomized Control Trials in the Field of Development ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198865360.003.0007 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 152-165

Author(s):

Andres Garchitorena ◽

Megan B. Murray ◽

Bethany Hedt-Gauthier ◽

Paul E. Farmer ◽

Matthew H. Bonds

Keyword(s):

Global Health ◽

Adaptive Systems ◽

Care Delivery ◽

Health Coverage ◽

New Era ◽

Health Delivery ◽

Development Goals ◽

Universal Health

Randomized control trials (RCTs) are considered to be the gold standard for impact evaluation in international development and they are associated with a new era of evidence-based global health policies. However, there are inherent challenges in using RCTs to answer some of the most important questions in global health: why, if solutions are known, affordable at scale, and supported by existing evidence, do hundreds of millions of people lack access to essential health services? A lack of clarity on appropriate research methods for strengthening health systems has corresponded to a lack of investment in more complex and adaptive systems of integrated care delivery. This chapter reviews the use of RCTs in global health, highlighting major contributions, and addressing some pressing priorities in implementation research at a time when the Sustainable Development Goals emphasize the importance of sector-wide approaches, such as integrated primary care and universal health coverage.

Making Crime a Sustainable Development Issue: From ‘Drugs and Thugs’ to ‘Peaceful and Inclusive Societies’

The British Journal of Criminology ◽

10.1093/bjc/azz050 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 60 (1) ◽

pp. 50-73 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Jarrett Blaustein ◽

Tom Chodor ◽

Nathan W Pino

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

United Nations ◽

Crime Policy ◽

Policy And Practice ◽

Documentary Sources ◽

Millenium Development Goals ◽

Development Goals ◽

The United Nations ◽

Drugs And Crime

Abstract Development has long featured on the United Nations (UN) crime policy agenda; however, crime was only officially recognized by the international community as a global development priority following the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015. Adopting a sociological institutionalist perspective, this article sets out to account for how this recognition was achieved. We draw on interviews with senior UN crime policy insiders and documentary sources to analyse the efforts of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to amplify awareness of the crime-development link following the omission of this issue from the Millenium Development Goals and amidst significant institutional and material pressures to strengthen its ties to the wider UN system. The article accounts for the political construction of the crime-development nexus and the important role that UNODC has historically played in facilitating global governance in this emergent and increasingly expansive sphere of policy and practice.