Private Development Aid in Europe Foreign Aid between the Public and the Private Domain

This is the first book which makes a detailed analysis of private aid organizations in Europe, their historical background and current position in six European countries - Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands and Spain. The authors investigate the relation between governments and private aid organizations in terms of how both partners look at each other, what kind of agreements they have and how these have developed over the years. They analyze the subsidy arrangements between governments and private aid organizations, looking at evaluation systems (or the absence of evaluation) and the way subsidy arrangements try to promote or organize systematical evaluation.

Paul Hoebink is Extraordinary Professor in Development Cooperation and Director of the Centre for International Development Issues Nijmegen (CIDIN) at Radboud University, the Netherlands. He has worked on development cooperation from multilateral to private aid as well as on the evaluation of development policies, projects and programmes. He has taught at several European universities and also at the Diplomatic Institutes in Sofia, Bulgaria, and Pretoria, South Africa.

Lau Schulpen is Senior Lecturer and Researcher at CIDIN. His recent research interests include citizens' initiatives in development cooperation, bilateral and private aid. He has worked as an adviser for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Minister for Development Cooperation, the Netherlands, and for several private aid organizations.

1. Private Aid Agencies in the 21st Century: An Introduction; Paul Hoebink and Lau Schulpen
2. Mapping the Belgian NGDO Landscape in Relation to Development Cooperation: Dealing with Fragmentation and Emerging Complexities; Leen Nijs, Nadia Molenaers and Huib Huyse
3. Corporatism and the development of private aid organisations in Denmark; Lars Engberg Pedersen, Neil Webster and Torsten Geelan
4. Non-Governmental Development Organisations (NGDO) and Finland's Development Policy; Lauri Siitonen
5. Irish Development NGOs and the Official Aid Programme of Ireland: A 'Special' Relationship?; Eamonn Casey and Helen O'Neill
6. Condemned to Each Other – NGDO-Government Relations in the Netherlands; Lau Schulpen and Paul Hoebink
7. Spanish Development NGOs and the State: A Continuously Evolving Relationship; Christian Freres and Ignacio Martínez
8. Development Cooperation in New EU Member States: The Role of Non-Governmental Organisations; Maja Bucar, Anja Mesic and Eva Plibersek
9. From Flats and Mountains: Comparing European Private Aid and Government Support for Private aid Organisations; Paul Hoebink and Lau Schulpen