Equal Relations and Appropriate Expertise in India’s South-South Co-operation? Discourse and Practice of the Pan-African e-Network

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ID20404482
AutoresTom De Bruyn (0000-0002-6088-6240, Senior Research Associate, Research Group Sustainable Development, HIVA, Research Institute for Work and Society, Leuven, Belgium., autor correspondente)
Ano2018
Volume10
Fascículo1
Páginas1-20
Data de publicação2018-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInsight on Africa (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0975-0878 • E-ISSN: 0976-3465
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0975087817735384
OpenAlexW2770400778
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas29

This article examines the implementation of India’s South-South Co-operation (SSC) principles in the health component of one of its flagship project: the Pan-African e-Network. Data are combined from the few available studies as well as from fieldwork in Mozambique, including interviews and policy documents. After scrutinizing the capacity building approach and the conception, design and implementation phases, the conclusion drawn is that the governmental discourse does not match with practice. Despite an efficient implementation of the infrastructure, the top-down, stand-alone and one-size-fits-all approach limits the agency in and appropriation of the project by its end users as well as an effective transfer of Indian expertise to other contexts

Appropriation · Epistemology · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · E-Government and Public Services · ICT in Developing Communities · International Development and Aid · Public Administration