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Challenges by new actors in international development
27/05/2009 By Sven Grimm, J. Humphrey, Sarah-Lea John de Sousa, E. Lundsgaarde
This paper has been produced as part of a programme of work on the prospects for European Union development co-operation in the period up to 2020 (EDC2020). It focuses specifically on the challenges Europe faces by the emergence of new actors in international development co-operation. In the past 10-15 years, the established development donors in the OECD's Development Assistance Committee (DAC) have forged a consensus about what aid is for, where it should be best directed and how it should be managed.
With the increasing salience of a variety of new actors in international development, both governmental and nongovernmental, this consensus is being challenged at a time when aid budgets are under threat and when there are other new challenges for development cooperation, not least climate change.
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Keywords
Aid effectiveness Aid management Aid policy EUBio author: Sven Grimm
Sven Grimm is research fellow at the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) since April 2005. He has studied in Hamburg, Accra and Dakar and has worked on the European Union's relations to developing countries since 1999
Bio author: J. Humphrey
Bio author: Sarah-Lea John de Sousa
Sarah-Lea John de Sousa holds an MA in Regional Sciences of Latin America (RWL) from the University of Cologne and is currently studying for a PhD in International Relations at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. She was formerly a development project manager at the Chuconsultig agency in Germany.
Bio author: E. Lundsgaarde
