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Virage idéologique dans la gestion de l’aide canadienne publique au développement: tension et dynamique Ideological Changes in the Management of Canadian Foreign Aid: Tensions and Dynamics François AudetProfesseurÉcole des Sciences de la Gestion – ESG-UQAM&Directeur Observatoire canadien sur les crises et l’action humanitaireOCCAHetOlga Navarro-FloresProfesseurÉcole des Sciences de la Gestion – ESG-UQAM
Historical background • A “shift” by/from the “NGO” Canadian aid community • Point de Mire, April 2011. “Les nouvelles tendances de l’humanitaire canadien”. François Audet • Audet François, Francis Paquette et Stéfanie Bergeron. (2013). «Religious nongovernmental organisations and Canadian international aid, 2001–2010: a preliminary study», Canadian Journal of Development Studies/Revue canadienne d'études du développement, Vol.34, No.2, P.291-320 • François Audet et Olga Navarro-Flores. Virage dans la gestion de l’aide canadienne publique au développement: tensions et dynamiques d’une nouvelle idéologie. Dans David Morin et Stéphane Roussel (dir.), «Un monde finit, un autre commence? » La politique étrangère de Stephen Harper (2006-2013)», Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, numéro spécial, à paraître.
Phase I: Religious nongovernmental organisations and Canadian international aid, 2001–2010: a preliminary study
Phase II : What are the conditions in which occurred these changes and the decision making process of the conservative administration? • Sort governmental decisions and categorised them by the development management theoretical framework (Sadhvi & Cooke, 2008); • Public interest? • Self preservation? • Ideology? • Aid effectiveness? • Research objective: Allow a normative reflexion on Canadian aid based on a Public administration approach;
Discussion & conclusion • All conservative decisions can not be justified based on «program or policy effectiveness » or « projects quality », rather: • Self preservation behaviour & political interest • Conservative ideology • This behaviour imply a dogmatic and religious rigid decision making process: • Manichean logic « good » or « bad » • No nuance nor debate • Exclusion of all who do not share the same values and phagocyte the others;
Discussion & conclusion • Significant political interventionism into the administration of aid programs • Tensions : ideological, political & administrative • The “Liberal bias” is now a “conservative bias” • New actors: religious groups & private sector • Positive of negative effect? • New consultative & collaborative window within the state agencies?
Phase III & IV : Impact on this political interventionism on decision making and funding channel • Assess the evolution of funding channel –NGO- from 2010-2013; • Assess the evolution of funding channel – Projects, regions, private business vs NGO;
Merci! Questions?