Opening address of the 11th Stockholm Water Symposium

2002 ◽  
Vol 45 (8) ◽  
pp. xiii-xv
Author(s):  
Gun-Britt Andersen
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Water Security ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Common Goal ◽  
Great Pleasure ◽  
Proper Place ◽  
International Water ◽  
Development And Environment ◽  
Opening Address

Water security for the 21st century – building bridges through dialogue It is an honour and a great pleasure for me to address you at the opening of the 11th Stockholm Water Symposium. I am here in the place of the Swedish ministers most concerned: Kjell Larsson, the minister for environment and Maj-Inger Klingvall, the minister for development cooperation, who are involved in the annual Swedish cabinet recess to agree the priorities in next year's budget. Let me extend their and add my own congratulations to Professor Takashi Asano for his well deserved award of the 2001 Stockholm Water Prize. We all appreciate your important contribution to our common goal: to achieve a good and efficient use and reuse of water. Also I wish to commend the Stockholm International Water Institute, SIWI, and the other contributors for making this week in Stockholm not only a prominent event itself, but most importantly helping to put water in its proper place on the international development and environment agendas.

scholarly journals On becoming a development cooperation partner: Kazakhstan’s foreign policy, identity, and international norms

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-173
Author(s):  
Insebayeva Nafissa
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Aid ◽  
International Development ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mutual Benefit ◽  
Hybrid Identity ◽  
Emerging Donors ◽  
Cooperation Partner ◽  
Core Features

This article joins the discussion on foreign aid triggered by the rise of multiplicity of emerging donors in international development. Informed by the constructivist framework of analysis, this article evaluates the philosophy and core features of Kazakhstan’s chosen development aid model and explains the factors that account for the construction of distinct aid patterns of Kazakh donorship. This article asserts that Kazakhstan embraces a hybrid identity as a foreign aid provider through combining features and characteristics pertaining to both—emerging and traditional donors. On one hand, it discursively constructed its identity as a “development cooperation partner,” adopting the relevant discourse of mutual benefit, respect for sovereignty, and non-interference, which places it among those providers that actively associate themselves with the community of “emerging donors.” On the other hand, it selectively complies with policies and practices advocated by traditional donors. This study suggests that a combination of domestic and international factors played an important role in shaping Kazakhstan’s understanding of the aid-giving practices, and subsequently determined its constructed aid modality.

scholarly journals Het Spaar- En Kredietprogramma Van Vredeseilanden / Rafia in Noord-Togo: Een Kritische Evaluatie

Afrika Focus ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 161-189
Author(s):  
Patrick Van Damme ◽  
Inge Hatse
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
West Africa ◽  
International Development ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Local Populations ◽  
Credit Program ◽  
A Priority

The Savings and Credit Program of Vredeseilanden (Islands of Peace) / Rafia in Northern-Togo: A Critical Evaluation Northern Togo has never been over-assisted as some of the other dry and poor areas of West Africa have been. It has never been a priority of national or international development organisations. As a consequence, the area has intermittent food security problems. Islands of Peace (Vredeseilanden), a Flemish NGO for development cooperation, however, has initiated a (successful) savings and credit scheme based on local surpluses which now allows local populations to invest and consolidate their (food security) situation.

scholarly journals Het spaar- en kredietprogramma van de Vredeseilanden / Rafia in Noord-Togo: Een kritische evaluatie.

Afrika Focus ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Van Damme ◽  
Ingrid Hatsé
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
West Africa ◽  
International Development ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Sustained Development ◽  
Rural Credit ◽  
Local Populations ◽  
A Priority

Northern Togo has never been over-assisted as some of the other dry and poor areas of West Africa have been. It has never been a priority of national or international development organisations. As a consequence, the area has intermittent food security problems. Islands of Peace (Vredeseilanden), a Flemish NGO for development cooperation, however, has initiated a (successful) savings and credit scheme based on local surpluses which now allows local populations to invest and consolidate their (food security) situation.  KEYWORDS : tontines, informal savings, rural credit, sustained development   

Verantwortung und Engagement von Unternehmen in der Internationalen Zusammenarbeit

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
The World ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Marketing Tool ◽  
The One

Great importance is attached to cooperation with the private sector at many levels of international development policy. In terms of official development cooperation in Germany too, companies are considered important partners for achieving global development goals. Civil society activists evaluate cooperation with private companies differently: on the one hand, they see the opportunity to mobilise additional potential; on the other hand, it is feared that companies may only use their involvement as a marketing tool to improve their image. German companies are also required to act responsibly along the entire value chain all over the world. With contributions by Jette Altmann (GIZ), Lucia De Carlo (BMZ), Prof. Dr. Dr. Ulrich Hemel (Bund Katholischer Unternehmer), Annette Jensen (Journalistin), Oliver Krafka (Martin Bauer Group), Tanja Reith (SAP), Prof. Dr. Hartmut Sangmeister (Universität Heidelberg), Dr. Christian Scheper (Institut für Entwicklung und Frieden/INEF), Martin Schüller (Fairtrade Deutschland), Dr. Bernd Villhauer (Weltethos-Institut an der Universität Tübingen) and Dr. Heike Wagner (Akademie der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart).

scholarly journals International development cooperation as one of the triggers for the process of public policy transfer

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 8-26
Author(s):  
Cecilia Osorio-Gonnet ◽  
Maria Clara Oliveira ◽  
José Miguel Vergara
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Policy Transfer ◽  
Third Parties ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Technical Cooperation ◽  
Bolsa Familia ◽  
The One ◽  
International Development Cooperation

On the one hand, transfer is a process by which governments intentionally use ideas about how policies in other countries work to design or redesign their own public policies (Dussauge, 2012). On the other hand, cooperation is a process that recognizes the existence of an interdependence between states and the international arena. This article aims to discuss and clarify the relation between international cooperation and policy transfer. Drawing on the analysis of development cooperation in Brazil and Chile, we discuss how technical cooperation agreements between these countries and third parties, encourage the transfer of public policies, in particular of those considered as models in the area of social policy, namely Bolsa Família and Chile Solidario. This article demonstrates that international development cooperation facilitates the existence of processes that allow for the transfer of specific components of social policies to other context. The analysis is based on a literature review and on information gathered through interviews conducted with relevant actors.

scholarly journals The Role of Donor Agencies in Promoting Standardized Project Management in the Spanish Development Non-Government Organizations

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1490
Author(s):  
Agustín Moya-Colorado ◽  
Nina León-Bolaños ◽  
José L. Yagüe-Blanco
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
International Development ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Governmental Organization ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Funding Mechanisms ◽  
Donor Agencies

Project management is an autonomous discipline that is applied to a huge diversity of activity sectors and that has evolved enormously over the last decades. International Development Cooperation has incorporated some of this discipline’s tools into its professional practice, but many gaps remain. This article analyzes donor agencies’ project management approaches in their funding mechanisms for projects implemented by non-governmental organizations. As case study, we look at the Spanish decentralized donor agencies (Spanish autonomous communities). The analysis uses the PM2 project management methodology of the European Commission, as comparison framework, to assess and systematize the documentation, requirements, and project management tools that non-governmental organizations need to use and fulfill as a condition to access these donors’ project funding mechanisms. The analysis shows coincidence across donors in the priority given to project management areas linked to the iron triangle (scope, cost, and time) while other areas are mainly left unattended. The analysis also identifies industry-specific elements of interest (such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals) that need to be incorporated into project management practice in this field. The use of PM2 as benchmark provides a clear vision of the project management areas that donors could address to better support their non-governmental organization-implemented projects.

Busting Myths in Compound Handling Practices for Assay Developers

2021 ◽  
pp. 247263032110233
Author(s):  
Rosalia Gonzales ◽  
Travis Mathewson ◽  
Jefferson Chin ◽  
Holly McKeith ◽  
Lane Milde ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Common Goal ◽  
Collaborative Relationship ◽  
Sample Handling ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
The Common ◽  
Recommended Practices ◽  
Handling Practices ◽  
The One

Since the advent of modern-day screening collections in the early 2000s, various aspects of our knowledge of good handling practices have continued to evolve. Some early practices, however, continue to prevail due to the absence of defining data that would bust the myths of tradition. The lack of defining data leads to a gap between plate-based screeners, on the one hand, and compound sample handling groups, on the other, with the latter being the default party to blame when an assay goes awry. In this paper, we highlight recommended practices that ensure sample integrity and present myth busting data that can help determine the root cause of an assay gone bad. We show how a strong and collaborative relationship between screening and sample handling groups is the better state that leads to the accomplishment of the common goal of finding breakthrough medicines.

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