Development narratives in a post-aid era: reflections on implications for the global effectiveness agenda

Nilima Gulrajani will present her recent UNU-WIDER paper that explores three development narratives that all seek to extricate development from a discredited ODA regime, pave the way for a different kind of relationship between low and high-income countries, and chart a course between the objectives of reducing poverty within countries and resolving broader trans-national challenges. The paper suggests that building a global consensus around development effectiveness requires, as a first step, an awareness of these multiple, cross-cutting, and occasionally competing development narratives.

Penny Davies, Coordinator of the Swedish Chairmanship in the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation at Sida, will be the discussant for this dialogue. Fredrik Söderbaum, SweDev Chair, will give the welcome remarks. Participants at the dialogue will have the opportunity to pose questions to the keynote speaker.

Agenda

• Welcome remarks
• Keynote presentation
• Discussion
• Q&A
• Concluding remarks

About Nilima Gulrajani

Nilima Gulrajani is a Senior Research Fellow at Overseas Development Institute and Visiting Fellow at King’s College Department of International Development and Trinity College, University of Toronto.

Dialogues on development research

This dialogue is part of SEI’s and SweDev’s dialogue series on development research. The aim of the dialogues on development research is to spread the findings of development research. The dialogues serve as a platform for researchers to share their work in an informal and public manner. The dialogue series target researchers, practitioners and policymakers within the field of development research.