Civil Society Organizations and Inclusive Partnerships for South-South Cooperation in Latin America

Jorge Balbis Pérez

Revista Integración y Comercio (Integration and Trade Journal), 2013, vol. 36, issue 17, 53-66

Abstract: South-South Cooperation (SSC), as practiced in the Latin American context, needs to be analyzed not just from the exclusive standpoint of the governments that execute it, but including the perspectives and contributions of a variety of stakeholders who, as part of the development cooperation community, do not necessarily dialogue -still less interact- with each other regarding their practices and results. From such a multistakeholder view of international cooperation, this article addresses an aspect rarely dealt with before in the literature on SSC in the Latin American context: namely, the role of civil society organizations (CSOs) in defining, implementing, and evaluating the policies and actions of the region’s governments in this area. In particular, it looks at how, to what extent, under what conditions, and with what results CSOs might intervene in the SSC offered by their countries’ governments as the expression of a logic of public-private action, considering that the development cooperation provided by governments forms part of public policy (in this case, foreign policy) and is therefore perceived as a space open to citizen opinion and participation.

Keywords: SOCIEDAD CIVIL; RELACIONES SUR - SUR; COOPERACION PARA EL DESARROLLO; COOPERACION INTERNACIONAL; POLITICAS PUBLICAS EN GENERAL; RELACIONES INTERNACIONALES EN GENERAL (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F35 F36 F5 J18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-07
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