In June 2013, a UNIDO conference in Costa Rica explored the future of development, emphasizing the importance of networks in addressing sustainable development challenges in middle-income countries (MICs). It linked networks and partnerships with the 2030 Agenda, suggesting that orchestration could facilitate collective action and support reforms in MICs.
The paper addresses the group of countries known as the ‘rising powers’ and the role these countries could play as regards a globalised common good. It focuses on South Africa as a case study for the main rising power on the African continent.
Abstract: "On the African continent the establishment of the African Union (AU) in the year 2003 was significant in terms of the development of a new African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA). In reaction to the African reform dynamics and the emerging international security agenda, external actors have begun to adjust their instruments and rethink their choices for action. New security concepts as well as recent approaches in development policy and other policy fields explicitly aim to support the peace and security architecture in Africa. When it comes to external support these developments have led to a search for changing approaches spanning foreign, security and development policy. This study sets out to analyse the new APSA in the context of changing concepts for external support to it." (author's abstract)
Abstract: "For some years the nexus of development and security has been a key conceptual and also political issue. The associated debates are wide-ranging, extending from the basic question of the relationship between development and security to the concrete interaction of military and civil actors in a given post-conflict situation. The present volume seeks to contribute to this debate by considering various dimensions of the subject." (excerpt). Contents: Mark Duffield: Human security: linking development and security in an age of terror (11-38); Necla Tschirgi: Security and development policies: untangling the relationship (39-68); Clive Robinson: Whose security? Integration and integrity in EU policies for security and development (69-92); Jakkie Cilliers: New interfaces between security and development (93-106); Ann M. Fitz-Gerald: Addressing the security-development nexus: implications for joined-up government (107-126); Stephan Klingebiel: Converging the role of development policy an
Results-Based Approaches
This study provides a conceptual framework for analysing Results-Based Approaches to improving public sector effectiveness and efficiency according to their actor constellation and shared characteristics. Though the importance of functioning public sector agencies and organizations for sustainable development is accepted, public sector reform efforts have achieved only modest success. Results-Based Approaches aim at improving public sector performance through the establishment of reward modalities on the domestic and international levels, and the authors evaluate the potential of these approaches to provide an entry point for development cooperation. Applying their framework to empirical data obtained from fieldwork in Rwanda, they analyse the main domestic performance approach – Imhigo – and suggest how this might be strengthened.