A paper titled Unpacking ‘ownership’ in development cooperation effectiveness: perspectives of southern recipients— authored by Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya, Mr Towfiqul Islam Khan and Ms Najeeba Mohammed Altaf — has been accepted, through a globally competitive process, for the international research conference on Effective Development Co-operation.
The international research conference, taking place in Brussels on 17-18 November 2022, is jointly organised by United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) and the European Union. The two-day conference will provide a forum to discuss innovative, theoretical, and empirical research and key policy take-aways to shape discussions and approaches to improved impact of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) Principles of Effective Development Cooperation.
The paper by the CPD researchers unpacks the first Principle of Effective Development Cooperation, i.e., ‘county ownership’ in view of the lived realities in Southern countries. ‘Country ownership’ continues to grow more as an idealised requirement than an operational concept for effective development cooperation. The paper reviews the experiences of attaining “ownership” in Bangladesh, El Salvador, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda and in the agriculture, education and social protection sectors.
The paper is based on outputs of a CPD anchored global research programme titled “Exploring ‘Development Effectiveness’ at the Sectoral Level in Southern Countries”, which is funded by the European Commission and led by Dr Debapriya. The three authors of the paper have been invited to join the international research conference in Brussels, Belgium.
