Civil Society Involvement in International Development Cooperation: In Search for Data

Autor/inn/en	Peels, Rafael; Develtere, Patrick
Titel	Civil Society Involvement in International Development Cooperation: In Search for Data
Quelle	In: Social Indicators Research, 93 (2009) 2, S.331-349 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0303-8300
DOI	10.1007/s11205-008-9320-x
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; International Cooperation; Participative Decision Making; Research Needs; International Organizations; International Programs; Citizen Participation; Nongovernmental Organizations; Policy Formation; Research Opportunities; Statistical Data; Educational Indicators; Management Information Systems; Community Role + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Internationale Kooperation; Internationale Zusammenarbeit; Forschungsbedarf; International organisation; International organisations; International organization; Internationale Organisation; 'Citizen participation; Citizens'' participation'; Bürgerbeteiligung; Politische Betätigung; Forschungshaushalt; Educational indicato; Bildungsindikator; Managementinformationssystem
Abstract	Participatory decision making seems to be the new development paradigm in international cooperation. It is still a long way, however, to achieve the objectives that are formulated by the international development actors. Non-state actors are only limitedly involved in the policy decision-making. In this paper, we argue that when these actors take their commitment towards civil society organisations serious, more efforts can be made to improve the available data and indicators on these actors' policy involvement. We discuss the most important existing databases on civil society's policy participation and find that only limited data is available. This means that there exist opportunities to: first, extend and refine the existing data and indicators on the policy involvement of these actors; and second, include these data and indicators in the assessment exercises of international development organisations. In addition, we observe a difference, between the available data on the traditional social partners and the new civil society organisations. Therefore, we argue that more research, data collection and the elaboration of indices, on the various policy involvement mechanisms of new civil society organisations would be a welcome contribution to the field. Furthermore the opportunity exists to examine the relation with other governance variables, such as accountability, transparency and rule of law. (As Provided).
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