Policy Making in Foreign Aid: Gender Equality and Danish Development Policy

Engberg-Pedersen, Lars

doi:10.1080/00220388.2015.1113266

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“…Support as well as opposition suddenly arise in unforeseen ways and influence the framing of gender equality. Conversely, Denmark’s normative environment has proved a fairly constant supportive framework for Danida’s gender policies and practices (Engberg-Pedersen, 2016).…”

Section: Explanatory Dimensions Of Norm Engagementmentioning

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Global norms and heterogeneous development organizations

Cold-Ravnkilde

Engberg-Pedersen

Fejerskov

2018

Progress in Development Studies

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Contemporary development cooperation is characterized by an increasing tension between a growing diversity of actors and significant attempts at homogenizing development practices through global norms prescribing 'good development'. This special issue shows empirically how diverse development organizations engage with global norms on gender equality. To understand this diversity of norm-engagement conceptually, this introductory article proposes four explanatory dimensions: (i) organizational history, culture and structures; (ii) actor strategies, emotions and relationships; (iii) organizational pressures and priorities; and (iv) the normativeenvironment and stakeholders. We argue that, while development organizations cannot avoid addressing global norms regarding gender equality, they do so in considerably divergent ways. However, the differences are explained less by whether these organizations constitute 'new' or 'old' donors than by the four identified dimensions.

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Section: Explanatory Dimensions Of Norm Engagementmentioning

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Global norms and heterogeneous development organizations

Cold-Ravnkilde

Engberg-Pedersen

Fejerskov

2018

Progress in Development Studies

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“…It is not evident that there is a causal relationship only from aid to migration and not the other way around. Another problem is that foreign aid typically pursues many different goals and purposes (Engberg‐Pedersen, 2016), which means that analysing the general correlation between aid and migration lumps together aid‐supported activities, some of which may stimulate migration as an unintended consequence of seeking to fulfil other objectives. Furthermore, many macro and micro parameters may influence migration, making it difficult to isolate the impact of foreign aid, and “overcontrolling” for these parameters seems to be another problem (Clements & Postel, 2018b, p. 13).…”

Section: Migration Development and Foreign Aidmentioning

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Can European foreign aid motivate people to stay in Africa? The root causes policy debate and irregular migration

Engberg‐Pedersen,

Vammen,

Lucht

2024

Development Policy Review

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MotivationIn European policy debate, conflict, economic crisis, lack of development, population growth, and climate change are often seen as the root causes of migration from Africa. To deter irregular migration to Europe, aid has thus been directed towards these perceived causes. This seems, however, not to deter irregular migration.PurposeWe explore the discrepancy between the official discourse of root causes and insights from research on migration decisions; and how discourse and evidence relate to aid. We ask what kind of policy change is needed if aid is possibly to influence irregular migration. We focus on the motivations and drivers of migration and how development cooperation may influence these.Methods and approachConsidering African migration to Europe, we examine the official European discourse on root causes of irregular migration, highlight recent developments in the academic understanding of migration aspirations and drivers, and investigate various attempts to analyse the impact of foreign aid on assumed “root causes” and migration.FindingsMigration is influenced by drivers that differ by the specific context in which potential migrants decide to migrate or not. Aid to influence migration must be thoroughly adapted to the circumstances of potential migrants. Addressing so‐called root causes may be irrelevant to many potential migrants and will require long‐term change to have any impact. It may even increase migration in the short term. Foreign aid that adopts a blueprint regardless of context is unlikely to deter irregular migration in the short or medium term.Policy implicationsIf irregular African migration to Europe is to be deterred through development cooperation, European policymakers and development practitioners need to elaborate and differentiate between aid‐supported activities through careful understanding of the migration dynamics specific to individual localities and societies.

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“…Likewise, bilateral aid donors are more likely to provide aid to countries which are already more embedded in international networks (Swiss, 2017) or with whom they share more common memberships in international organizations (Swiss & Longhofer, 2016). Other research has examined the dynamics of how aid donors are subject to and enact World Society norms and models (Brown & Swiss, 2013;Cold-Ravnkilde, Engberg-Pedersen, & Fejerskov, 2018;Engberg-Pedersen, 2016Swiss, 2011Swiss, , 2012Swiss, , 2018. Swiss (2016b) argues that aid's role in World Society is one of both diffusing models/norms and increasing the embeddedness of states in global networks which promote the same.…”

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Foreign aid and the rule of law: Institutional diffusion versus legal reach

Dawson

Swiss

2020

British Journal of Sociology

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This paper examines the role of bilateral foreign aid in supporting the diffusion and enactment of common models and institutions of the rule of law among aid‐recipient low‐ and middle‐income countries. We ask whether aid targeted at security‐sector reform and the rule of law influences the adoption of constitutional and legal reforms over time (institutional diffusion), and whether aid also supports more effective implementation of the rule of law, writ large (legal reach). We use event history and fixed‐effects panel regression models to examine a sample of 154 countries between 1995 and 2013 to answer these questions. Our findings suggest that aid does increase the likelihood of adopting several rule of law reforms, but its effect on increasing the depth or quality of rule of law over time within countries is much less substantial. These findings suggest that though aid may play a role in supporting the diffusion of models contributing to state isomorphism among countries, it is less effective at increasing the pervasiveness and quality of such model’s implementation. This discrepancy between the effectiveness of bilateral aid in promoting law on the books versus law in action in aid recipient countries calls into question the current approach to rule of law reforms.

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Policy Making in Foreign Aid: Gender Equality and Danish Development Policy

Cited by 22 publications

References 28 publications

Global norms and heterogeneous development organizations

Global norms and heterogeneous development organizations

Can European foreign aid motivate people to stay in Africa? The root causes policy debate and irregular migration

Foreign aid and the rule of law: Institutional diffusion versus legal reach

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