Equity, Evaluation, and International Cooperation: In Pursuit of Proximate Peers in an African City

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Gabriella Y. Carolini

Equity, Evaluation, and International Cooperation

In Pursuit of Proximate Peers in an African City

Gabriella Y. Carolini

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Oxford University Press
11 August 2022

International economics; International trade; Development economics; Political economy; Urban economics

Series: Critical Frontiers of Theory, Research, and Policy in International Development Studies

Is South-South Cooperation (SSC) any different from other international partnerships in practice? While straightforward, this question often gets lost in conventional scholarship on SSC and international cooperation, which privileges macro-level narratives of how cooperation mechanisms fit within geopolitical concerns and shape the outcomes of foreign aid. Equity, Evaluation, and International Cooperationi instead offers an answer from the ground up. It highlights two main lessons from the close examination of the ecosystem of international cooperation projects in the urban water-and-sanitation sector in Maputo, Mozambique.

First, the book shows that macro labels attributed to international cooperation reflect very little about how cooperation projects operate on the ground and the equity consequences of their work. Second, how projects are designed, implemented, and evaluated does matter to the quality of learning that emanates from partnerships. Beyond the geopolitical and technical proximities favored by the SSC discourse, this book argues that what matters in practice is whether hierarchy or heterarchy is institutionalized in the governance of cooperation projects; whether project partners are locally embedded in shared work spaces; and whether practitioners value flexibility and recognize the epistemic value of learning from all partners as peers. A strong evaluation culture within the international development industry, however, still subjugates such equity-based concerns and deep learning in projects to accountability, reinforcing orthodox power asymmetries in cooperation and sustaining epistemic and distributive injustice. This book instead provides a framework for how project evaluations, as a key narrative instrument of development, can instead promote distributive, procedural, and epistemic justice in international cooperation projects.

By: Gabriella Y. Carolini
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9780192865489
ISBN 10: 019286548X
Series: Critical Frontiers of Theory, Research, and Policy in International Development Studies
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 11 August 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: From Rhetoric to Verdict on South-South Cooperation 1: Hierarchies in the South 2: 'We don't refuse money': The Crowding-in of International Footprints 3: Anything but Basic: Navigating Turbidity in Water and Sanitation Cooperation 4: Looking for Learning in Cooperation Projects 5: Recognizing Potentials: Moving from Mentorship to Proximate Peers 6: The Governmentality of Evaluation Conclusion: Anticipating Proximate Peer Partnerships

Gabriella Y. Carolini is an Associate Professor of Urban Planning and International Development in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she also leads the City Infrastructure Equity Lab. Her teaching and research focus on equity in the governance of infrastructure development across cities in the Americas and Africa. Her work has been published in several leading journals, including the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Urban Studies, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, Journal of the American Planning Association, The Lancet, and the American Journal of Public Health, among others.