Foreign donors driving policy change in recipient countries: Three decades of development aid towards community-based forest policy in Bangladesh

Rahman, Saifur; Sadath, Md. Nazmus; Gießen, Lukas

doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2016.03.013

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“…The research follows the path of a full quantitative survey of all existing policies and projects relating to SFM and a qualitative assessment of strategic tasks assigned. The policies and projects selected cover the period of 1992-2013, given that in Bangladesh, major forest policy changes took place just after 1990 [17,18]. Consequently, an identifiable, international forest regime emerged after the 1990s [1].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…International forest governance has certainly shifted over time to address emerging priorities (such as the issue of SFM), which have shaped and reshaped views on forest related policies [31]. These issue-based, forest related, domestic policies are developed through international influences [32,33], especially due to their capacity for providing financial resources [17]. Domestic influences do, of course, also contribute to this development.…”

Section: Sfm Policy: Global and Domestic Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…State administrations in developing countries-the forest agency being no exception in Bangladesh-have been developed into highly centralized, bureaucratized, formalistic and authoritarian systems of management and policy practices [48,49]. Foreign donor bureaucracies, on the other hand, play a major role in policy changes by providing financial and technical aid in Bangladesh [17]. Therefore, the involvement of donors and counterpart national-level bureaucracies is expected to be much more important since they are most likely to engage in designing and implementing SFM policies in Bangladesh.…”

Section: Sfm Policy: Global and Domestic Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Projects led by government and foreign donors in this study are treated as policies in the above sense. This is appropriate, as projects (specifically development project aid by donors) were found to be an important part of Bangladesh forest policy changes [17]. Moreover, Sadath and Krott [18] considered extra financial investments, regulatory instruments, and informational instruments as policies to analyze Bangladesh forest policy changes.…”

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“…In contrast, policies on sustainable forest management (SFM) in developing countries often face the challenge of being perceived as an overall hindrance-specifically within agricultural development-as well as challenges related to a lack of funds for the pursuit of SFM policy development [14][15][16][17]. Hence, domestic bureaucracies often ally with foreign donors from industrialized countries in the interest of either domestic or international SFM policy development [11,17].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Abstract:The last two decades of forest policy discussions have been dominated by calls for sustainable management of forest resources. Consequently, multiple international and domestic policies, supporting sustainable forest management (SFM), have evolved in numerous jurisdictions. Policies in developing countries often rely on foreign donors' projects, which supplement domestic SFM policy. These policies assign various policy tasks to specific public bureaucracies, who then compete for these very tasks, as well as the related staff and budgets. Therefore, project and policy task assignment greatly influences bureaucratic power. This article analyzes the distributive effects of SFM policy on power (in terms of coercion, incentives and dominant information) among relevant domestic and foreign donor bureaucracies in Bangladesh. Concepts from power theory, bureaucratic politics theory, and concepts of policy and policy process were combined to analyze 121 Bangladeshi SFM policies from 1992-2013, which assign a total of 1012 policy tasks to specific public bureaucracies. Using qualitative content analysis, inferences about power were assigned to specific competing bureaucracies by the totality of SFM policies made. Results identify domestic and foreign bureaucracies whose power distribution benefit most from the SFM policies viz. their competitors. It is concluded that bureaucracies gaining the most power set the limits and directions in designing, implementing and evaluating various elements of any national SFM policies.

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Kim

2020

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The member states of the United Nations collectively agreed on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as equally important global objectives. Yet the same states seem to prioritize certain SDGs in national implementation. Such cherry-picking defies the "integrated and indivisible" nature of the SDGs, and could negatively impact overall progress on sustainable development globally. Which SDGs receive more attention than the others in national policies, and what implications can we draw for global governance? We address these questions in two parts. Through a content analysis of the Voluntary National Reviews of 19 countries of varying income levels, we find that SDGs 1 and 8 on poverty eradication and economic growth are by far most widely prioritized. We then look specifically into Bhutan and Vietnam to explore possible explanations for goal prioritization as well as the potential steering effects of international organizations on their national policies. The findings have important policy implications for global governance. We argue that the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, in particular, has an important role to play to better coordinate international organizations to help mitigate unhealthy goal prioritization.

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Foreign donors driving policy change in recipient countries: Three decades of development aid towards community-based forest policy in Bangladesh

Cited by 52 publications

References 35 publications

International and Domestic Sustainable Forest Management Policies: Distributive Effects on Power among State Agencies in Bangladesh

International and Domestic Sustainable Forest Management Policies: Distributive Effects on Power among State Agencies in Bangladesh

Cherry‐picking the Sustainable Development Goals: Goal prioritization by national governments and implications for global governance

Assessing Institutional Responses to Climate Change Impacts in the North-Eastern Floodplains of Bangladesh

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