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Coping With Uncertainty in Development Aid Relations

Susanna Alexius, Janet Vähämäki (Stockholm Environment Institute)

Emerald Group Publishing Limited eBooks
License: CC BY

Abstract: The courage and ability to take on complex and uncertain coordination across distances in time, space, and cultures has been a characteristic of human affairs since ancient times (Harari, 2012).Long before our current times of space journeys, gene manipulation, and the internetinternational trade, warfare, colonization, and religious missions and crusades entailed coping with great complexity and uncertainty.Today, the need to tackle "wicked" problems of coordination in complex settings under highly uncertain conditions, as illustrated the recent global COVID-19 pandemic and our critically deteriorating climate, remains as vital as ever before (Ferraro et al., 2015; Gray & Purdy, 2018; Ramalingam, 2013; Rutter et al., 2020; Schreyӧgg & Sydow, 2010; Verweij & Thompson, 2006).In this volume, we present data from a field on the world's top list of highly complex settingsforeign development aid, a field in which ideas and resources make their way through an intricate web of organizationsaid organizationsto hopefully reach societies and people in need.More precisely, we present and discuss findings from our studies of some of the aid field's many interorganizational project relations, where the main characters of our field storyaid bureaucrats -find themselves engaged in managing projects aimed at tackling complex problems such as poverty, hunger, inequality, disease, and climate change.

Published on 21 Feb. 2024