Germany's Government-Civil Society Development Cooperation Strategy
The Dangers of the Middle of the Road
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2641865 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan Engel (0000-0002-4184-6139, University of Wollongong, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 42-59 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cosmopolitan Civil Societies An Interdisciplinary Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1837-5391 • E-ISSN: 1837-5391 |
| Publisher | University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5130/ccs.v9i1.4942 |
| OpenAlex | W2599073999 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 15 |
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has been busy since the late 2000s studying the way aid donors manage their relations with development civil society organisations (CSOs). More than studying these relations, they have made some very detailed, managerialist suggestions about how CSOs should be organised and how donor governments should fund and otherwise relate to them. This came out of the debate about aid effectiveness, which was formally aimed at improving both donor and recipient processes. Donors have quietly dropped many of the aspects related to improving their own performance and yet a number have created new interventionist governance frameworks for CSOs. This is the case in Germany, which has a large, vibrant development CSO sector that has traditionally been quite autonomous, even where its received state funding thanks to Germany's commitment to 'subsidiarity.' Yet Germany is otherwise a middle of the road donor and in many ways, these 'reforms' are moving its relations with civil society more towards a somewhat more managerialist approach, one that is in fact the norms amongst OECD donors
Business · Civil society · Corporate governance · Economic policy · Economics · European union · Management · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Subsidiarity · International Development and Aid · Law · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Public Administration · Religion, Society, and Development
From recipients to donors
Anti-Politics Machine
Civil Society in World Politics
Commentary
Civil Society in the Age of Crisis
Struggles in Paris
European Civil Societies Compared
NGOs and Aid Fragmentation
Aid Allocation through Various Official and Private Channels
NGOs, States, and Donors Revisited
The new managerialism in local governance
Participatory development, complicity and desire
Foreign Aid
Transcending the Great Foreign Aid Debate
Unpacking civil society sustainability
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |