Typologies for understanding private sector engagement in development cooperation

With the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) a comprehensive development agenda is on the table. However, current development budgets are no match for these high ambitions. Confronted with this financing challenge, donors look with renewed interest at the role of the private sector in development cooperation. How to mobilize additional resources and what instruments to use to do development cooperation with and through the private sector? This question dominates the agenda of the upcoming two-day OECD-DAC peer learning event in Copenhagen. Donors will be able to compare notes on recent experiences and if possible make a start for better mutual understanding and coordination of their approaches. Following recent research for the Flemish and Belgian government, Acropolis BeFinD researchers from HIVA-KU Leuven were asked to set the scene with a presentation on the many roles that private sector can play in development cooperation, and a discussion of the opportunities and risks that come with it.

You can contact BeFinD researcher Sarah Vaes for more information.

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