From poverty reduction to global challenges, a new horizon for international development cooperation?

Abstract The transformation of urban basic service sectors towards more sustainability is one of the ‘grand challenges’ for public policy, globally. A particular urgent problem is the provision of sanitation in cities in low-income countries. The globally dominant centralised sewerage approach has proven incapable to reach many of the urban poor. Recently, an increasing number of actors in international development cooperation has started to develop alternative safely managed non-grid approaches. We approach their efforts as an emerging ‘global innovation system’ and investigate how its development can be supported by systemic intermediaries. We analyse the activities of the ‘Sustainable Sanitation Alliance’, an international network that coordinates activities in the sanitation sector and thereby supports this innovation system. The findings show how demand ing it is to fulfil an intermediary role in a global innovation system, because of the need to consider system processes at different scales, in each phase of system building.

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Sustainable Consumption and Production in Asia — Aligning Human Development and Environmental Protection in International Development Cooperation

Sustainable Asia ◽

10.1142/9789814730914_0002 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 17-43

Author(s):

L. Akenji ◽

M. Bengtsson ◽

P. Schroeder

Keyword(s):

Environmental Protection ◽

Human Development ◽

International Development ◽

Sustainable Consumption ◽

Development Cooperation ◽

Sustainable Consumption And Production ◽

International Development Cooperation

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Japan’s development cooperation: from making amends to agenda–setting

Revista de Fomento Social ◽

10.32418/rfs.2021.300.5032 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 351-373

Author(s):

Nikolay Murashkin

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

International Development ◽

Relative Weight ◽

Development Cooperation ◽

Infrastructure Development ◽

World War ◽

Japan International Cooperation Agency ◽

Key Drivers ◽

International Development Cooperation

This article revisits the post–World War II evolution of Japan’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) over the past 75 years, with a particular focus on the period starting from the 1980s and subsequent changes in Japan’s international development cooperation policies. I address cornerstones such as human security and quality growth, while examining the role of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), shifts and continuities in regional visions and sectoral priorities, such as infrastructure development. I argue that the threefold mix of key drivers behind Japan’s development cooperation has remained consistent, involving developmentalism stemming from Japan’s own experience of successful modernisation from a non–Western background, neo–mercantilism, as well as strategic and geopolitical considerations. The relative weight and interplay of these factors, however, fluctuated in different periods.

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Philip Albert Theodor Kircher. Poverty Reduction Strategies. Gottingen Studies in Development Economics. Frankfurt, Germany: Peter Lang, 2002. xiv+275 pages. Paperback. Price not given.

The Pakistan Development Review ◽

10.30541/v44i1pp.108-111 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 44 (1) ◽

pp. 108-111

Author(s):

Faheem Jehangir Khan

Keyword(s):

International Development ◽

Poverty Alleviation ◽

Poverty Reduction ◽

Well Being ◽

Development Cooperation ◽

International Consensus ◽

Systematic Analysis ◽

Poor Countries ◽

The World ◽

The Rich

Poverty is one of the most depressing global problems in the world today. Therefore, there is a growing consensus among development organisations that poverty alleviation should be the primary goal of cooperation between the rich and the poor countries. This consensus is due to the awareness that a widening international income gap threatens the well-being of people in the rich countries. In this volume, the author, Philip Kircher, offers a comprehensive study on the evolution, the content, the different national accentuations, and the problem of the international consensus on poverty alleviation, and provides a systematic analysis of today’s donor strategies for development cooperation for poverty reduction. The study focuses specifically on the strategic positions of the World Bank, the Department for International Development (DFID) of the United Kingdom, the Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) of Germany, and the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), as well as the positions presented by the governments of these countries in regard to development.

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