1. THE LOCAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT POLICY" TWO CASES FROM THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN.
- Author
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Rosenberg, Jonathan
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ENVIRONMENTAL policy , *SUSTAINABLE development , *ECONOMIC development , *INTERNATIONAL alliances - Abstract
Development assistance agencies and banks make much of their funding for resource management conditional on the environmental sustainability of the projects and the use of participatory methods. Unfortunately, the efficacy of these conditionalities is limited by the unwillingness or inability of funders to enforce their own requirements and of recipient governments to abide by them. Nevertheless, these problems may be overcome by alliances of mid-level funding agency officials, officers of the implementing agencies of recipient states, and local NGOs and grassroots stakeholders. These "triple alliances" can avoid attempts by national governments to administer development assistance in ways that undermine the linked goals of sustainability and stakeholder empowerment, and overcome the tendency of funders to make only superficial efforts to enforce their own conditionalities. An examination of two cases from the Eastern Caribbean (a forest policy process in Grenada and a marine reserve in Dominica) shows how particular implementation strategies and dedicated personnel may achieve at least a partial fulfillment of the new conditionalities. The optimistic implication of this research is that development assistance can be a positive factor in sustainable development if it is part of an effort to institutionalize direct, sustained and constructive relationships among funders, recipient governments, and affected communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2005