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Brazil: A Good Partner for European Donors?
23/03/2010 By Sarah-Lea John de Sousa
Brazil is becoming increasingly important within the arena of international development cooperation. The focus is on technical cooperation – capacity building and knowledge exchange – while financial cooperation remains low. Brazil has entered into cooperation partnerships with South American, Caribbean and African countries to seek recognition and support for its global position and for initiatives such as its lobbying efforts for UN reform and a permanent seat in the UN Security Council.
According to this paper by Sarah-Lea John de Sousa, published in DIE, although reluctant to accept the Paris Declaration principles, which it perceives as rules imposed by the traditional northern donor countries, Brazil shares key values and ideas with European donors, particularly the promotion and protection of democracy and human rights in partner countries.
Areas of potential mutual benefit include, on the one hand, closer collaboration between Europe and Brazil, including debates on overall coordination, guidelines and rule-setting in the field of international development cooperation; and on the other hand, concrete trilateral projects with other southern developing countries.
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Keywords
Aid effectiveness Aid management Aid policy Brazil Donors European Union Latin America & CaribbeanRelated publications
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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.
