Contenu du sommaire : Les transformations dans le système de la coopération pour le développement

Renewing perspectives for understanding ongoing transformations in development assistance Since the decade which began with the new millennium in 2000, international development assistance may be seen as part of a broader process which has entailed major changes. First, the financing of development has been characterized by the emergence of a growing number of private and public actors, which entail multiple relations and far reaching objectives involving them increasingly in the very functioning of recipient states. On the other hand, development assistance has become a results based system which privileges technical dimensions to the detriment of political debate concerning the nature and objectives of the development policies themselves. This ongoing process of the complexification of the environment in which development assistance takes place is analyzed by bringing together the insights from different disciplinary perspectives including political science, political economy and sociology.

The role of business and private foundations in the global food and agriculture governance Recently, a global governance system for food and agriculture has begun to form. Within it, businesses and private foundations tend to centralize to such an extent while they are legitimized by an increasing investment in international aid. This article aims to analyze the movement starting from two new initiatives : the G8's New alliance and Agra.

This article intends to discuss the political cohesion of the BRICS and its way forward as a group, drawing upon their engagement with African countries and recent developments towards the creation of an operational platform for collaboration. It shows that the group is still uneven and competitive. However, increasing initiatives to foster exchanges combined with growing economic cooperation and the common political aims lay a firm foundation for a more functional and integrate community.

The aid regime paradoxes, between international demands and domestic logics. The case of a bureaucratic enclave in Mozambique The aid regime prevails in Mozambique ever since its independence in 1975. The dialectic between international demands and state power is analysed in the case of a bureaucratic enclave within the tourism ministry. This administrative unity is fund by the World Bank at the heart of the state. Policymaking in such a context can be compared to an accordion : leadership in decision-making may remain the prerogative of the state, but at the same time state liberty faces many constraints.

Coordination of humanitarian interventions in Haïti : the role of clusters in the outsourcing of aid The earthquake that hit Haiti on January 12 2010 underlined some of the challenges inherent to a large scale humanitarian crisis in a country accustomed to dealing with protracted crises. This article analyses the coordination mechanism implemented by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Inclusion and exclusion dynamics will be pinpointed to demonstrate the problems associated with the integration of local actors in coordination and, therefore, the planning of humanitarian aid.

The Public Private Partnership : an alternative to Public Aid for development ? The example of urban water services in Senegal A quasi-generalized satisfecit emerges on the results of the Public-Private Partnership model in the management of water services in Senegal to the extent that donors present the Senegalese experience as a model to export to other countries region. But in recent years, faced with intermittent water service, water shortages create a "context of micromobilisation" and protest movements, until now spontaneous, but increasingly violent has arisen to the point that it becomes legitimate to ask whether the institutional architecture and the funding model are not showing their limits.

The Directorate-General for Globalization, Development and Partnerships' desk officiers in the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the issue of cooperation and development policy action The Directorate-General for Globalization, Development and Partnerships' desk officers within the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs are at the heart of the construction of the cooperation and development french multilateral policy. Within this administrative organization, they use many strategies such as the « makeshift job » and the informal way, the variation of meaning of the action carried out as well as their power of expertise and of policies' implementation.

The research bound to the system of the public aid for development : how to produce useful knowledge ? An expertise of pastoral hydraulics in the Chad Based on singular events arisen during a field research on pastoral hydraulics in the Chad, and on a more general argumentation on the methods of survey and the interventions of projects in Africa, this text deals with the mobilization and the instrumentalization of the research in social sciences by the system of public aid. Conditions to a scientific production on the development are reminded, considering the procedures and the characteristics of the system of foreign aid.

Photography, a perspective and a revealed challenge of the international aid system This article aims to show the relevance of a visual perspective to decrypt the dynamics of the international aid system and calls for the integration of visual media when reflecting on the transition of humanitarian aid. Through the use of photography by aid actors, this proposes a periodization of the relationship between organizations and photography, divided into four periods. Each period sheds light on the choices made regarding the role of visual media, in the practices and policies of aid and its effects Thus pictures, represent, reproduce and drive a system that they manage to objectify, to transform and to hide.

Perspectives for agriculture in remote regions of the world in the context of globalization. Case study of Vanuatu Facing international competition, the Vanuatu export agricultural sector is in rapid decline. While most of the attention is being focused on classical commodities (copra, cocoa), local products are neglected, and so is the local market. Vanuatu farmers do not feed indeed the growing urban population. The cost of food imports therefore locks the country in a situation of economic dependency while the rural areas are being increasingly marginalized. However, as we will argue, the country could draw benefits from specific local products (among which root crops and kava), both for export and domestic consumption.