The sustainability treaty between the Netherlands and Costa Rica: a new perspective on environmental and development cooperation

2003 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pieter Glasbergen ◽  
Miriam Miranda
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
New Perspective

Reflections on the Significance of Historical Research for Development Policy

Itinerario ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-88
Author(s):  
J.P. Pronk
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Labour Party ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
The Hague

It is customary in the Netherlands to celebrate just about any happy occasion with a speech and a glass of sherry or genever. So when our first volume of essays, Expansion and Reaction, came off press in December, 1977, we invited our friends in the vicinity to hear the then Minister of Development Cooperation J.P.Pronk. We have chosen to print his remarks because they illustrate from what viewpoint government officials view our activities. Pronk is now Professor at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague and M.P. for the Dutch Labour Party.

Organizing Collaboration

2020 ◽  
pp. 22-42
Author(s):  
Constantine Michalopoulos
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
The Political ◽  
Global Poverty ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
The Uk

The story of Eveline Herfkens, Hilde F. Johnson, Clare Short and Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, all of whom, with different titles became ministers in charge of development cooperation in the Netherlands, Norway, the UK, and Germany in 1997–8, and what they did together to bridge the gap between rhetoric and reality in the war against global poverty, starts with a short discussion of their background. This is followed by a discussion of the political situation and the different government arrangements that determined development policy in their countries at the time. The last part of the chapter reviews the beginnings of their collaboration which focused on ensuring that the debt relief provided to highly indebted poor countries (HIPCs) in programmes supported by the World Bank and the IMF resulted in actually lifting people out of poverty.

scholarly journals Encounter and engagement: negotiating otherness in the Dutch Protestant development cooperation network in Brazil

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 599-621
Author(s):  
João Rickli
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
The World ◽  
Cooperation Network ◽  
Development Initiatives

This article investigates encounters occurring in the development cooperation network facilitated by two Dutch Protestant agencies - ICCO and KiA - in Brazil, focusing on the process of negotiating otherness inherent to development initiatives. The text is based on multi-sited ethnographical research conducted in Brazil and in the Netherlands. In its first section, the text introduces the two organisations, highlighting the overlap between religious and secular moralities in their discourses and practices. The second section describes a meeting they promoted with their partners in Brazil, analysing how a grammar of difference is mobilised by the actors to make sense of the world and of the "far-away" other, creating what could be called cosmologies of development cooperation. The text focuses mainly on how concrete interactions influence these cosmologies, actualising, reproducing or contesting them in practice.

BREAKING STUDENTS’ COMFORT ZONE: LEARNING FROM COMMUNITY MEMBERS, A STRATEGY WITHIN THE AEC EDUCATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrique Vinicio Villacis Tapia ◽  
India Luxton ◽  
Rodolfo Valdes Vasquez ◽  
Mehmet Egemen Ozbek ◽  
Cynthia Ayarza
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Comfort Zone ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Colorado State University ◽  
Neighboring Building ◽  
New Perspective

In order to address pressing issues such as climate change, energy crises, and economic disparity, it is pertinent to include local community members within AEC education. In this paper, we explore how breaking the comfort zone of students can facilitate a broader perspective on sustainability. This new perspective can cultivate innovative and creative solutions to 21st century problems. This paper documents the experience and impacts of student participation in an education abroad program focused on sustainable buildings and infrastructure. The program took place in January 2019 in Costa Rica with the collaboration of Colorado State University (USA) and EARTH University (Costa Rica). In this program, students directly communicate with low-income community members who worked with a local developer during the construction of a new neighboring building. Qualitative interviews with students, as well as ethnographic observations of class discussions, illustrates that this partnership helped students see a new perspective on how to deal with the life cycle of construction projects. The preliminary results indicate that the collaboration between the community members and the developer was a key component of expanding students’ perspectives. This research illustrates the importance of building community collaborations that are mutually beneficial in the classroom and beyond. In particular, the results suggest that educational experiences which integrate community concerns into solutions are key to expanding students’ worldviews.

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