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DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION BEYOND THE AID EFFECTIVENESS PARADIGM: A WOMEN'S RIGHTS PERSPECTIVE

 

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Social movements and women’s movements in particular, have strong experience on how to promote development strategies and livelihood strategies and should be part of the deep reflection needed to go beyond the aid effectiveness framework. The rights approach is a possible basis to have a more comprehensive cooperation framework, and this needs to come together with serious reform of the system that currently guides development cooperation. The current development cooperation system is not only inefficient, as many have argued, but it reflects power dynamics and structures that have been exhausted and have not delivered their promises.....