Hiding Relations: The Irony of ‘Effective Aid’

Eyben, Rosalind

doi:10.1057/ejdr.2010.10

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“…Eyben (2010) discusses surreptitious approaches to reconciling such adaptation with donor requirements, what she calls "hiding relations." Her analysis describes how many local donor staff practice their own decoupling-subscribing to reporting responsibilities and accountability upward, on the one hand, while acting in ways that extend beyond these structured requirements and reframing their actions for reporting as needed.…”

Section: Iterative Adaptive Reform Processesmentioning

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Public Sector Management Reform in Developing Countries: Perspectives Beyond NPM Orthodoxy

Brinkerhoff

2015

Public Admin & Development

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SUMMARYWith the passage of time and the accumulation of experience, the hegemony of the New Public Management (NPM) (now no longer new) as the dominant approach to public sector reform has weakened, particularly as applied to developing countries. What alternative frameworks for theory and practice offer insights and guidance beyond the NPM orthodoxy? This article offers some answers to this question and draws upon the contributions to this special issue to explore four analytic strands that constitute post-NPM approaches to reform: political economy and institutions, public management function over form, iterative and adaptive reform processes, and individual and collective agency. The discussion highlights the significance of functional mimicry, the challenges of measuring results, the practical difficulties in achieving contextual fit and accounting for the inherent uncertainty in reform processes, the tensions between ownership and outside expertise, and unpacking political economy dynamics within various micro-contexts and across regime types.

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Section: Iterative Adaptive Reform Processesmentioning

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Public Sector Management Reform in Developing Countries: Perspectives Beyond NPM Orthodoxy

Brinkerhoff

2015

Public Admin & Development

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“…O aprimoramento da gestão desses recursos é visto como atrelado ao sucesso de um "estilo participativo" que está, a nosso ver, alinhado a uma tradição dos estudos de desenvolvimento que valoriza os processos de aprendizagem (Locke e Latham, 2006;Patton, 2010), bem como de acordo com autores que criticam processos estritos de monitoramento e avaliação que podem acabar desencorajando processos de adaptação e inovação (Chambers, 2010;Eyben, 2010).…”

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INTRODUÇÃON o Brasil, nos anos 1990 cresceu o debate sobre a possibilidade de ampliar a eficiência e a efetividade da gestão pública a partir de uma distinção mais adequada entre o público e o estatal. Na base deste debate está a ideia de ser necessário distinguir a provisão de serviços públicos (uma clara atribuição do Estado), da produção desses serviços (uma atribuição vinculada não tão evidentemente ao http://dx

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“…These are areas where political economy analysis approaches could adopt insights from critical institutionalism regarding the agency and behaviour of different actors. In particular, political economy analysis could benefit from engagement with what Copestake and Williams (2012) refer to as the "aidnography" literature 3 (Mosse 2004;Eyben 2010). This work aims to understand the agency and actions of development workers themselves, as I discuss below in relation to the case study of WaterAid in Mali.…”

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“…It is important to note that actors such as WaterAid may publicly claim to promote 'best practice' while being more sensitive to ideas of 'best fit' in their actual activities. The literature on the agency of development workers themselves is helpful in understanding these possible differences (Mosse 2004;Eyben 2010).…”

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“…By investigating these relationships between actors and institutions across different scales, I have shown how WaterAid's partners develop local interpretations of national policy on financing rural water services, in a similar way to how Mosse (2004) and Eyben (2010) examine the responses of development workers to "unimplementable" policies or processes. The use of the wider political economy approach also demonstrates the effect of structural factors on how these arrangements emerged, such as the influence of Mali's aid dependency and decentralisation reforms.…”

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Bridging political economy analysis and critical institutionalism: an approach to help analyse institutional change for rural water services

Jones

2015

Int J Commons

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This paper argues that approaches to understanding local institutions for natural resource management based on "critical institutionalism" (Cleaver 2012), which emphasises the importance of improvisation and adaptation across different scales, can be placed within broader political economy analysis frameworks for assessing challenges in public services delivery from national to local levels. The paper uses such an extended political economy analysis approach to understand the role of the international NGO WaterAid and its partners in Mali in relation to institutions for financing rural water services, drawing on collaborative research undertaken in 2010 and 2011. The case study shows that WaterAid's approach can be understood through elements of both mainstream and critical institutionalist thinking. At local government level, WaterAid primarily promotes formal institutional arrangements, which exhibit the challenge of "reforms as signals" (Andrews 2013), where institutional reforms appear to happen but lack the intended function. However, the work of WaterAid's partners at community level supports processes of "institutional bricolage" through which they try to gradually work with local actors to find ways of 'best fit' for financing rural water services which adapt existing local practices into new arrangements.

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Hiding Relations: The Irony of ‘Effective Aid’

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Cited by 86 publications

References 23 publications

Public Sector Management Reform in Developing Countries: Perspectives Beyond NPM Orthodoxy

Public Sector Management Reform in Developing Countries: Perspectives Beyond NPM Orthodoxy

As Organizações Sociais de Saúde e o Desempenho do SUS: Um Estudo sobre a Atenção Básica em São Paulo

Bridging political economy analysis and critical institutionalism: an approach to help analyse institutional change for rural water services

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