Aim of workshop
The aim of this workshop is to map and understand this proliferation of non-aid actors (including other government departments) providing bilateral and multilateral aid, the underlying mechanisms for their emergence in the current global order, and finally the impact of this rising fragmentation on the effectiveness of the global development agenda. Given the resurgence of interest in the topic the purpose of the workshop is to review the state of the art and identify future research collaborations.
Program
9:30-10:00 – Arrival, coffee/tea
10:00-10:15 – Welcome by NIAS director Jan Willem Duyvendak and workshop convenors, introductions
10:15-11:15 – Global trends
• Nadia Molenaers (Antwerp), “Aid by non-aid actors: What and who are we talking about?”
• Niels Keijzer (German Development Institute), “Development Finance Institutions as (non-)aid actors”
• Chair: Emma Mawdsley (Cambridge). First respondent: Wil Hout (Erasmus).
11:15-11:30 – Coffee/tea break
11:30-12:30 – Case studies 1: Canada, Czechia, France
• Stephen Brown (NIAS/Ottawa), “Leveraging ODA? Canadian Support for the Private Sector’s Involvement in International Development”
• Ondřej Horký-Hlucháň (Institute of International Relations Prague), “No growth without fragmentation? New interests, actors and modalities in the Czech development and humanitarian aid”
• Gordon Cumming (Cardiff), “Innovative Partnership or Control Mechanism? France’s Debt Cancellation Facility for Africa”
• Chair: Jessica Sklair (Sussex). First respondent: Haley Swedlund (Nijmegen).
12:30-1:30 – Catered lunch
1:30-2:30 – Case studies 2: United Kingdom
• Simon Lightfoot (Leeds), “UK Aid beyond DFID”
• Simon Billett (Cambridge), “Aid by foreign policy actors: The case of the UK in India”
• Emma Mawdsley (Cambridge), Paul Gilbert (Sussex) and Jessica Sklair (Sussex), “DFID and the ‘Big Four’: Contracts, Consultancy and the Private Procurement of Poverty Reduction”
• Chair: Nadia Molenaers (Antwerp). First respondent: Gordon Cumming (Cardiff).
2:30-3:30 – Case studies 3: Germany and “emerging donors”
• Stephan Klingebiel (German Development Institute), “Non-aid actors and ODA spending: Emerging trends from the German case”
• Mark Furness (German Development Institute), “‘Donorship’ and Strategic Policymaking: Germany’s MENA Aid Programme since the Arab Uprisings”
• Haley Swedlund (Nijmegen), “Emerging donors and ‘non-aid actors’”
• Chair: Simon Billett (Cambridge). First respondent: Niels Keijzer (German Development Institute).
3:30-3:45 – Coffee/tea break
3:45-5:00 – Summary and next steps (workshop convenors)
• Discussion of what we learned, what we still don’t know and potential next steps (e.g., joint research projects, publications, conference panels, grant applications)
