Rethinking recipient agency
What can we learn from Haitian accounts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11188149 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Katarzyna Baran (0000-0002-3011-7221, University of Cambridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 742-759 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Third World Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0143-6597 • E-ISSN: 1360-2241 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01436597.2021.2017276 |
| OpenAlex | W4205337739 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 33 |
Development settings have always been uneven fields of power where recipient agency is limited. However, since the late 1990s, ideas of recipient participation and ownership gained popularity among international financial institutions, donor and recipient governments and aid practitioners. At the same time, with the ‘rise of the South’, the development cooperation landscape became much more polycentric. At least in theory, there is more choice, giving recipients more bargaining power and thus more agency. ‘Emerging’ donors talk about horizontality, sovereignty and shared identities, but what are the actual practices on the ground? How do recipients see themselves in interactions with different Northern/Southern donors? Are North/South categories relevant when analysing recipient agency, or are there other factors that are more analytically useful? This paper approaches recipient agency by looking at agricultural cooperation in Haiti. It is based on interviews conducted with an extended spectrum of Haitian actors involved in projects with four donors/partners: the United States, France, Brazil and Cuba. It looks into recipient perceptions and experiences of agency in relation to Northern donors and Southern partners by exploring project conceptualisation, execution, financing and everyday interactions
Agency (philosophy · Economic growth · Economics · General partnership · Political science · Politics · Popularity · Power (physics · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Sovereignty · International Development and Aid · Law · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion · Public Administration · Religion, Society, and Development
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Killing with Kindness
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The Return of Non‐DAC Donors to Africa
More Actors, More Money, More Ideas for International Development Co-operation
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Earthquakes, Nongovernmental Organizations, and Governance in Haiti
Indigestible Recipe
Lost in Translation
The Chinese just come and do it’
The millennium challenge account
The PRS Approach and the Paris Agenda
Imagining Agricultural Development in South–South Cooperation
Participatory Exclusions, Community Forestry, and Gender
The moral politics of foreign aid
Solidarity forever? ABC, Alba and South–South Cooperation in Haiti
Agriculture in and beyond the Haitian catastrophe
Participation in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers
The Rise of Postcolonial States as Donors
Emerging Southern powers and new forms of South–South cooperation
Participatory Development
Reconceptualizing Foreign Aid
Authority, Gender and Knowledge
Aprendendo com a história
The Odd and the Ordinary
The Paradox of Participation
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |