Gender Inequality, Aid Agencies, and Global Norms

How is aid used to exert power? Gender equality promotion and migration control in Senegal

“…Donors' foreign action is not only driven by interests, such as migration control. Agenda setting, particularly around certain values, has historically been a key part of development cooperation (Engberg‐Pedersen, 2020 ). Spain claims gender equality to be a core element of its development cooperation.…”

“…Its use can be of a transactional nature, to obtain a political or economic advantage in a different field, as identified by Tarte (2008), who analyses the environmental conditions involved in Japanese aid to developing countries with fishing interests for the donor country. According to Jung et al (2018), this type of aid 4 Other paradigms or agendas strongly linked to international assistance are those of gender equality (Engberg-Pedersen, 2020;Fejerskov, 2017), social policy (Kwon et al, 2015) or global health (Dauvergne & Farias, 2012). 5 It is worth noting that the influential capacity of the EU in the aid domain has also been studied at the European level: how MS shape their aid according to the European doctrine (Carbone & Orbie, 2019;Olivié & Pérez, 2020).…”

“… 4 Other paradigms or agendas strongly linked to international assistance are those of gender equality (Engberg‐Pedersen, 2020 ; Fejerskov, 2017 ), social policy (Kwon et al, 2015 ) or global health (Dauvergne & Farias, 2012 ). …”