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After the Millennium Development Goals. Remarks on the ethical assessment of global poverty reduction success
2018
The Millennium Development Goals were effective from 2000 to 2015. Statistics show that most of the goals were met, and particularly success in the goal of reducing extreme poverty (MDG1) gained wide recognition. Despite the strong ethical language related to poverty reduction, there has been little analysis of the ethical significance of the MDG achievements. Since statistical and ethical definitions and representations of poverty never completely overlap, conclusions concerning ethical progress are not directly available from the statistics. This article shows how this ethical significance can be analysed and what kinds of controversies and uncertainties relate to the issue. As part of th…
Practices of development assistance and climate change mitigation in reshaping the Mozambican REDD+ strategy
2020
ABSTRACTThis paper studies how the practices of climate change governance and development assistance have reshaped the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) process in Mozambique. We look at how the original goals of the Mozambican REDD+ strategy changed in the interplay of different governance-related practices, both those originating locally and nationally, and those coming from international organisations. The paper is based on the frameworks of multilevel governance and practice theory. We identify six combinations of practices that are relevant in the REDD+ programmes and projects. Three of them are incorporated in the general idea of sustainability, inclu…
Interpreting the Sustainable Development Goals through the Perspectives of Utopia and Governance
2021
The article analyses the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from the perspective of their self-understanding of political sense expressed in key SDG documents, including both UN documents and reports produced by individual countries. Utopia and governance are presented as ideal-typical approaches and analytical tools for qualitative content analysis. This approach is argued to be particularly illuminating in the case of politics of international development, as international development is simultaneously highly utopian and deeply embedded in rationalities of governance. As this analytical framework is applied to the SDGs, it is shown that their utopian pronouncements are related to the id…
Those who bridge the gaps : brokers and translators within development practices in Nepal
2015
Since the outburst of James Ferguson on the development policy in Lesotho in 1994 - the starting point of the post-development school of thought, the imposition of Western development models on Third World countries has been heavily criticized by post development thinkers. The purposes of what is called “development” are in serious doubt. “What do aid programmes do besides fail to help poor people?” (Ferguson, 1994: 180). Post-developmentalists, however, did not stop at castigating the reality they have witnessed on the ground; they also proposed solutions. They advocate for alternatives to development as a new development paradigm rather than alternative development (Escobar, 2000). As the…
Introduction : Civil Society Responses to Changing Civic Spaces
2023
AbstractThis introductory chapter contextualizes how the volume resonates to current global trends and research debates concerning democracy, civil society, and civic space. The chapter shows how the debates on the decline of democracy, civil society actors, and changing civil spaces underpin the book’s agenda of exploring civil society responses to civic space. The chapter argues in favour of contextual and relational analyses of how civil society actors and civic space are negotiated, in the context of historically formed governance systems. It also provides an overview of the chapters of the book underlying their original contributions to ongoing debates.
Finland’s action to strengthen civil societies and advance their enabling environment
2022
Kansalaisyhteiskuntien vahvistaminen on tärkeä tavoite Suomen kehityspolitiikassa ja keino saavuttaa muita kehityspoliittisia tavoitteita. Kansalaisyhteiskuntien tukeminen on tärkeää nykyisessä maailmanpoliittisessa tilanteessa, jossa kansalaisyhteiskunnan tila kutistuu ja autokratisoituminen lisääntyy. Tämä ulkoministeriön (UM) tilaustutkimus tarkastelee kansalaisyhteiskuntien vahvistamista ja niille suotuisien toimintaympäristöjen edistämistä Suomen kehityspolitiikassa ja -yhteistyössä. Se keskittyy erityisesti kehityspoliittisen kansalaisyhteiskuntalinjauksen (2017) toimeenpanoon Suomen kehityspolitiikan eri sektoreilla. Tutkimus perustuu dokumenttianalyysiin ja haastatteluihin. Lisäksi …
Reimagining Civil Society Collaborations in Development : Starting from the South
2023
At a time when uneven power dynamics are high on development actors’ agenda, this book will be an important contribution to researchers and practitioners working on innovation in development and civil society. While there is much discussion of localization, decolonization and ‘shifting power’ in civil society collaborations in development, the debate thus far centers on the aid system. This book directs attention to CSOs as drivers of development in various contexts that we refer to as the Global South. This book take a transformative stance, reimagining roles, relations and processes. It does so from five complementary angles: (1) Southern CSOs reclaiming the lead, 2) displacement of the N…
Äärimmäinen rikkaus ja eriarvoisuuden nousu
2018
Rikkaiden ja köyhien välinen kuilu jatkaa kasvamistaan. Samalla köyhyyden maantiede muuttaa muotoaan: Pohjoisen ja Etelän maiden välinen vastakkainasettelu on pikku hiljaa muuttumassa eriarvoisuudeksi kaikkialla. Kehitysyhteistyötä motivoinut köyhyyden vähentäminen on tässä todellisuudessa varsin hampaaton poliittinen väline, sillä sen avulla ei voida puuttua suurimpaan ongelmaan – äärimmäiseen rikkauteen. nonPeerReviewed
Conclusions
2023
This concluding chapter returns to the questions posed in the introductory chapter, reflects on the answers to these provided by the individual chapters, and reviews the main insights emerging from the five sections of the book. It also discusses an agenda for further exploration, research, design, and experimentation concerning reimagining civil society collaborations in development in order to ‘start from the South’. Research and the work of practitioners are integrated here, as they will need to feed into each other to advance the fundamental transformations called for in this book. nonPeerReviewed
Introduction
2023
This chapter introduces current debate on civil society collaborations in development and summarizes the contributions of this book to that debate. It relates these contributions to identified needs for transformation in the collaborations between civil society organizations from Global South and those from the Global North and reviews initiatives where such changes have been put into practice. The chapter also briefly describes the specific content of the other chapters included in the book. peerReviewed