Struggles in Paris: The DAC and the Purposes of Development Aid

Rosalind Eyben ()
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Rosalind Eyben: University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.

The European Journal of Development Research, 2013, vol. 25, issue 1, 78-91

Abstract: This article historicises the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Development Assistance Committee (DAC) as a site where the meanings of development and the purposes of aid were contested and where gradually a more diverse set of actors were invited to engage in the argument. The author's ethnographic approach examines the micro-level processes of ideological struggle in a ‘closed space’ that transformed into an ‘invited’ one. During this transformation, rights-based approaches to development rose and fell within a changing global landscape wherein the DAC seeks to sustain a foothold. The article concludes by considering the future of debates about development within the post-Busan Global Partnership in which the DAC is only one of many stakeholders.Dans une perspective historique, cet article envisage le Comité d’aide au développement (CAD) de l’OCDE comme un espace où les définitions du développement et les objectifs de l’aide ont été contestés et où un ensemble plus diversifié d’acteurs ont progressivement été invités à prendre part au débat. S’inscrivant dans une approche ethnographique, l’auteur examine les microprocessus de lutte idéologique dans un « espace clos » qui s’est transformé en un « espace d’invitation », transformation au cours de laquelle les approches du développement fondées sur les droits de l’homme ont progressé puis reculé dans un contexte global en mutation au sein duquel le CAD cherche à renforcer sa position. L’article conclut en s’interrogeant sur l’avenir des débats concernant le développement dans le cadre du Partenariat mondial de Busan, où le DAC n’est qu’une partie prenante parmi bien d’autres

Date: 2013
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