Description
Book SynopsisPartnerships are now pervasive in global education and development. Through case studies of prominent multi-stakeholder partnerships, as well as a comprehensive analysis of the global education network, this book exposes clear power imbalances that persist in the international aid environment.
Table of Contents
- Contents
- Foreword Steven Klees ix
- Acknowledgments xiii
- List of Abbreviations xv
- 1.Introduction: Conceptualizing Power in an Era of Partnerships 1
- Understanding Partnership
- Understanding Power
- Methods and Data Collected 10
- Notes on Terminology14
- Rationale for This Book 16
- A Note on Scope 18
- My Position as Author 19
- Overview of the Book 20
- 2.
- The Era of Partnership 24
- Multistakeholder Partnerships 29
- Partnerships as Public–Private Arrangements 31
- Questioning Partnerships 34
- Partnerships in Education and Development 39
- Conclusion 43
- 3.New Actors and Relationships in Aid to Education: Understanding Power in a Transnational, Partnership-Based Network 44
- The Changing “Architecture” of Development Aid 44
- Understanding Power in Networks 47
- Network Research on International Development and Aid 50
- Networks, Partnerships, and Aid to Education 51
- Conclusion 58
- 4.Power Dynamics in a Multistakeholder Fund: The Case of the Global Partnership for Education 61
- The History and Mandate of the Global Partnership for Education 61
- Power Dynamics in the Global Partnership for Education 64
- The Empowering of Private Actors in the Global Partnership for Education 71
- Conclusion 80
- 5. The Challenges of Partnering for Aid to Education in Emergencies: The Case of the Education Cannot Wait Fund 81
- The History and Mandate of the Education Cannot Wait Fund 82
- Power Dynamics in Education Cannot Wait 85
- The Empowering of Private Actors in Education Cannot Wait95
- Conclusion 100
- 6. Conclusion: Reconceptualizing Partnerships in International Aid to Education 102
- Structural Power in Partnerships: North/South Hierarchies 102
- Productive Power in Partnerships: The Framing of the Private Sector 105
- Shifting Power Dynamics in Partnerships 107
- Reconceptualizing Partnerships 111
- Conclusion 117
- References 119
- Index 133
- About the Author 141
