On the international cooperation for development governance: actors, intentions and perspectives

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Claire Gomes dos
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Outros Autores: Carrion, Rosinha da Silva Machado
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Administração Pública
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/rap/article/view/7062
• topic: international cooperation; development; third sector.; cooperação internacional; desenvolvimento; terceiro setor.

This essay aims to propose a theoretical reflection exercise on the governance of international cooperation for development. We argue about two broad development approaches (one is guided by an economic standpoint, the idea of progress and anormative universality, and the other one reflects a normative intention, although counter-hegemonic in relation to the dominant discourse on development, being guided by local, historical, cultural and territorial contextuality). We tend to believe that, rather than resist or agree with the NGOs or intergovernmental organizations from North, the civil society organizations and NGOs from South condescend to the strategies of the organizations from North. It is therefore interesting to identify how these organizations respond to the governance  process within the international cooperation for development. In this sense, we will present concepts and purposes of international cooperation for development, its historical background and currentissues, the varying roles of Brazil in this context, different approaches of development, origins and actors involved in governance of international cooperation for development. The article finishes with a few considerations.