Publication: Building public support for development cooperation
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2007
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The current development agenda envisages a substantial increase in volumes of development assistance along with changes in other policies which affect developing countries, including trade, debt and migration. Successful and sustainable international development cooperation policies and expenditures are believed to require a constituency for aid in donor countries. The paper explores the question of how public support for international development cooperation in donor countries can be built and nurtured. It attempts to identify factors which determine public attitudes towards development assistance and measures that can be undertaken by state authorities to exploit these factors to the advantage of a greater support for development cooperation. It reviews rationales and arguments which can be used to explain to the publics of donor countries the need of transferring a part of their national income to developing countries. It also presents approaches which have been developed by donors in order to enhance public understanding of the need for development cooperation and to strengthen support for development assistance.
La actual agenda de desarrollo internacional prevé un substancial incremento de volúmenes de ayuda al desarrollo, junto con cambios en las demás políticas que afectan a los países en desarrollo, tales como la política comercial, de deuda y de migración, entre otras. Unas exitosas y sostenibles políticas de cooperación al desarrollo requieren, como se supone, la existencia en los países donantes de una ciudadanía que reclama la ayuda al desarrollo. En este artículo se investiga la cuestión de cómo impulsar y fomentar en los países donantes el apoyo público a favor de la cooperación al desarrollo. Se pretende identificar los factores que determinan las actitudes de los ciudadanos en cuanto a la ayuda al desarrollo, así como las medidas que las autoridades públicas pueden implementar con el fin de aprovechar dichos factores para conseguir un mayor apoyo público a la cooperación. Se revisan argumentos que se pueden empelar para explicar a los ciudadanos de los países donantes la necesidad de transferir una parte de su renta nacional a los países en desarrollo. Además, se presentan enfoques empleados por los donantes para facilitar la comprensión de la necesidad de cooperación al desarrollo, así como para aumentar el nivel de apoyo público a la ayuda al desarrollo.
La actual agenda de desarrollo internacional prevé un substancial incremento de volúmenes de ayuda al desarrollo, junto con cambios en las demás políticas que afectan a los países en desarrollo, tales como la política comercial, de deuda y de migración, entre otras. Unas exitosas y sostenibles políticas de cooperación al desarrollo requieren, como se supone, la existencia en los países donantes de una ciudadanía que reclama la ayuda al desarrollo. En este artículo se investiga la cuestión de cómo impulsar y fomentar en los países donantes el apoyo público a favor de la cooperación al desarrollo. Se pretende identificar los factores que determinan las actitudes de los ciudadanos en cuanto a la ayuda al desarrollo, así como las medidas que las autoridades públicas pueden implementar con el fin de aprovechar dichos factores para conseguir un mayor apoyo público a la cooperación. Se revisan argumentos que se pueden empelar para explicar a los ciudadanos de los países donantes la necesidad de transferir una parte de su renta nacional a los países en desarrollo. Además, se presentan enfoques empleados por los donantes para facilitar la comprensión de la necesidad de cooperación al desarrollo, así como para aumentar el nivel de apoyo público a la ayuda al desarrollo.
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