How Do We Help?

Preface Introduction 1. Development Cooperation: Community, Arena and, Increasingly, Market An expanding community An arena with plenty to fight over A market with many transactions 2. From Colonialism to the Millennium Development Goals Colonial warm-up exercises Technical cooperation and knowledge transfer Faith in development aid Development cooperation: aid in a global setting Th-e Washington Consensus and structural adjustments International cooperation and the Millennium Development Goals Addressing poverty in exchange for debt relief Is Paris introducing order to the market? More than development aid 3. Cooperation Means Partners Internationally: among specialists Recipient countries: donor darlings and donor orphans 4. Official Bilateral Cooperation: Fractions and Fragmentation Small players and institutional pluralism In search of an institutional foundation for development cooperation Decentralisation in order to get closer to the public, or for other reasons? 5. Europe's Development Cooperation Patchwork Seeking identity and complementarity From Yaounde to Cotonou: from association to agreement Strengths and weaknesses of the ACP-EU partnership The Cotonou Agreement The European Development Fund Other instruments Europe: a major pioneer? A choice in favour of Africa? 6. Multilateral Cooperation: The UN Galaxy The UN and development cooperation The World Bank: not a cooperative Regional development banks The United Nations Development Programme The rise of new vertical programmes on the UN market 'Deliver as one': seeking cooperation on the market 7. The NGDOs: Bringing Values onto the Market A movement with many faces A sector with many roles Several generations of NGDOs A sector with many different visions and strategies A movement with a plural support base The sector breaks free from the NGDOs Is a new social movement becoming a network movement? 8. A Fourth Pillar on the Market The key players of the fourth pillar A new generation of altruists? Starting from a different field An alternative way of working Mainstreaming development cooperation 9. Humanitarian Aid: In Good Shape or Going Downhill? What place for emergency aid? Needs and promises Cash-and-carry on the market? 10. The Unbearable Lightness of the Support for Development Cooperation The uneasy relationship with the support base No (more) aid fatigue? Popular, yet little understood Something needs to be done: but by whom? 11. Drawing up the Balance Sheet Progress, but too little, too slowly and not for everyone Are we really that generous? Who is receiving aid? The effectiveness and impact of development cooperation Development cooperation: a stumbling block? Conclusion Abbreviations Endnotes Glossary Bibliography