North-South Cooperation Research Articles

Psychological capital and safety in Global North-South cooperation: A field analysis of collaborative investigative journalism across the U.S.-Mexico border

This article builds on a field theoretical analysis of collaborative investigative journalism across the U.S-Mexico (Global North-South) border. The article examines contents produced in investigative collaboration between Salvadoran, Guatemalan, Mexican, and U.S. journalists, exposing human rights violations, crime, and corruption. The article elaborates on the concept of psychological capital and argues for its relevance in the study of cross-border collaborative investigative journalism. A key finding resulting from this research is that in most collaborative projects, psychological and other capital of the Central American and Mexican journalists was outweighed by the capital of the U.S. journalists. The psychological, social, and cultural capital of the Southern journalistic fields were highly relevant for the successful implementation of the examined projects, but not explicitly recognized in most reporting. The article also suggests the Southern journalists did not feel safe enough to suggest critical perspectives challenging the position of their Northern partners, who funded and supervised the collaborations. However, three projects, in which Northern and Southern journalists worked in Central America and Mexico side by side, manifested exemplary solidarity and recognition of the psychological and other capital of the Southern fields. Hence, it seems that witnessing the dangers affecting the region’s journalists firsthand can enable Northern journalists to better understand and appreciate the circumstances in which their Southern partners are living and working, reflected in more genuine appreciation of their psychological, cultural, and social capital.

Transcending boundaries on unequal ground: A critical reimagination of global North-South cooperation on social work practice and the Sustainable Development Goals

Using collaborative autoethnography, this article encapsulates the rich discourse that unfolded during a symposium titled: "Human Rights, The Sustainable Development Goals and Social Work Practice in Germany and Africa". The symposium was a testament to the collaborative synergy between Fachhochschule Dortmund in Germany, Midlands State University (MSU) in Zimbabwe, the University of Johannesburg, and the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in South Africa. This scientific event was an academic convergence where researchers and postgraduate social work students shared research, experiences and insights from the Global North and South, offering a mosaic of perspectives on critical issues. It illuminated shared challenges that transcended geographical boundaries. Poverty, climate change, and social injustice were common but contextually unique across the three countries. In this paper, we employ critical and world systems theories to reflect on the symposium. The discussions and reflections underscore social work's strategic position to inform context-specific anti-poverty, climate change discourse, anti-racism and collaborative efforts to combat economic disparities. This paper encourages the power of sustainable partnerships, dialogue, and shared learning across geographical and socio-economic boundaries. Collaborative efforts between Global North and South universities provide a platform for cross-cultural learning and mutual capacity building amongst postgraduate students.

Comparative Study of International Negotiations Between Developed Countries and Africa from a North-South Cooperation Perspective

Comparative Study of International Negotiations Between Developed Countries and Africa from a North-South Cooperation Perspective

Understanding South-South Cooperation: A Comparative Analysis with North-South Cooperation Approaches

South-South Cooperation was first conceived at the 1955 Bandung Conference, which led to the foundation of the Non-Aligned Movement in 1961 and other important initiatives within the UN system, such as creating the G77 and elaborating the Buenos Aires Plan of Action. Since the beginning of the century, this cooperation modality has re-emerged and is now considered a catalyst for sustainable development. Given this context, this paper aims to analyze its ideological and political origins, definitions, and evolution, highlighting its importance as an instrument of foreign policy and development cooperation. In addition, a comparison between South-South and North-South Cooperation is made through five dimensions: ideas, institutions/political systems, interests, organizations, and vectors/schemes. Through this comparative approach, the author seeks to present consensual aspects of what is understood as South-South Cooperation and portray the diversity of strategies implemented by countries in the Global South.Keywords: South-South Cooperation; North-South Cooperation; Global South; sustainable developmen; BRICS

Transformation of Applied Linguistics in the Global South Context of Bangladesh: Researcher Agency, Imagination, and North-South Cooperation

Abstract This article examines the transformation of applied linguistics knowledge production in the Global South taking postcolonial Bangladesh as a case. In the 1990s, one could not locate even a dozen applied linguistics articles in international journals authored by Bangladeshi researchers. However, in about two decades, Bangladeshi researchers can claim hundreds of journal articles, book chapters, monographs, and edited volumes. Drawing on bibliometric data and autoethnography, this article seeks to document a new dawn in applied linguistics research in Bangladesh complemented by researchers’ engagement in Southern epistemological thinking in a decolonial spirit. While demonstrating the role of researcher agency and imagination in this transformation, we also highlight the role of North-South interaction and collaboration. We argue that despite the hegemony of Eurocentric views underpinning language, epistemology and geopolitics of knowledge, there may be hope for Southern applied linguists to decolonize their research imagination and bring disciplinary changes in line with Southern perspectives to make the world a better place for the global community.

The Dynamics of Civil Society Organisations and Cooperative Societies around Cocoa Governance Based on North-South Cooperation in Côte d'Ivoire

The cocoa sector in Côte d'Ivoire has around 3,000 cooperatives, whose stated objective is to fight for an improvement in the living conditions of producers by acting for a better marketing price for their produce. Despite their large numbers, these cooperatives struggle to integrate and influence decision-making bodies so that the needs of producers can be taken into account. It is against this backdrop that two non-governmental organisations, INADES [ ], and INKOTA-Netzwerk, launched a collaborative initiative in 2019 involving international civil society organisations, human rights organisations and cooperatives, with a view to helping them build an advocacy framework to have a greater impact on decision-making in the sector through the establishment in 2020, of the "Ivorian platform for sustainable cocoa". And this desire to bring together agricultural cooperatives as well as the Ivorian civil society (south) and their partners (north) so that they can play their full part in the decision-making process within this sector has been the subject of a study. The results, findings, observations and information gathered as part of this research are set out in this article. The data was collected through documentary research and semi-directive interviews with Inades-Formation managers, civil society organisations that are members of the platform, cooperative group managers and trade union structure managers. In terms of results, the pooling of synergies between civil society organisations in the north and south, which began in 2020 under the slogan "Ivorian platform for sustainable cocoa", has led to the development and publication of an advocacy guide. This activity has also helped improve the administrative and economic organisation of cooperative structures. In addition, the information and capacity-building sessions carried out by international civil society organisations have enabled cooperatives to revitalise their influence in the process of political and ......

Decolonising Southern knowledge(s) in Aidland

ABSTRACT South–South Co-operation (SSC) has become increasingly important in international development policy and practice as both alternative and complementary to North–South Co-operation. Crafted through the acceptance, appropriation, and instrumentalisation of a colonialist idea of an underdeveloped world, SSC has been historically defined as an expression of Southern solidarity, through which developing countries collaborate to achieve progress, modernity, and development. It is often claimed to involve mutually beneficial, horizontal exchange of resources between developing countries – particularly knowledge – and to foster decolonising practices. In this paper, I argue that while one of the starting points for SSC was opposition to North–South knowledge hierarchies, its legitimisation has been constructed through postcolonial power inequalities and new forms of authoritative knowledge that reiterate old hierarchies. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic research conducted as part of my doctoral studies, I show how the building and international legitimatisation of Brazilian ‘best practices’ – in the gender equality field – has produced a political economy of opportunities and mobility for these professionals; their professional pathways to Mozambique are indicative of the processes of production of Southern expertise and new knowledge hierarchies. I also discuss Brazilian development workers’ discourses about the relevance of Brazilian experiences to Mozambique. Theoretically, the paper is inspired by critical development theory with a feminist and postcolonial approach. It uses postcolonial literature, usually applied to relations between colonisers and former colonies, to look at how colonial discourses and discourses about Africa, the ‘Third World’, and the West historically intervened in the encounters between people from former colonies and continue to be activated. Specifically, I analyse imaginaries of ‘Southern’ and ‘developing country’ identity embedded in expertise claims.

Development Cooperation and Dependency: An Analysis of Brazilian‐Spanish Cooperation in Latin America Between 2010 and 2018

Based on analysis of Brazilian‐Spanish cooperation in Latin America, this article aims to contribute to the discussion on whether South–South Cooperation (SSC) represents an alternative model with specific and differentiated objectives, or if it largely reproduces the constraints and interests traditionally associated with the North–South model, but with new institutions and actors. We start by analysing the main criticisms levelled at cooperation in the literature, emphasising the identification, review and comparison of the mechanisms of domination and dependency that derive from the bilateral and multilateral practices of traditional development cooperation. We then construct a synthetic dependency index to measure the ability of Spain and Brazil – as representative cases of North–South Cooperation (NSC) and SSC with Latin America – to influence the foreign trade, investment and foreign policy decisions of aid recipients, and to empirically contrast the lower level of verticality that much of the available literature assumes about SSC schemes. The empirical analysis suggests significant differences between NSC and SSC in terms of their ability to reproduce dependency patterns and validate the discourse that tends to identify the latter as an alternative cooperation model.

The Peruvian Alzheimer Disease Initiative (PeADI): An international effort model to increase diversity in AD research (S15.002)

<h3>Objective:</h3> We have developed an international collaborative research initiative to ascertain a Peruvian cohort for AD and other related dementias for genetic studies of Amerindian individuals. <h3>Background:</h3> Peru is one of the five largest countries in Latin America and harboring a high Amerindian ancestry component in this population. The Latin American population, including Peruvians, are underrepresented in research studies of AD. <h3>Design/Methods:</h3> PeADI was developed to recruit and enroll Peruvian adults aged 65 and older to a comprehensive genetic AD study. Individuals will get whole genome sequencing and plasma biomarkers. Participants included cases with AD and ADRD, healthy controls as well as multiplex AD families. Since 2019, we have established a multisource ascertainment approach including recruitment at main hospitals, outreach community activities and more recently due to the COVID19 pandemic remote recruitment and home visits in Lima, the capital city. Our recruitment has expanded to three regions from the Andes highlands (Puno, Huancayo, Cusco) and one region from the southern coast (Tacna). All participants are enrolled using a standard clinical and cognitive protocol administered by neurologists and neuropsychologists. <h3>Results:</h3> As of September 2022, we have enrolled 132 AD and other dementia cases, 292 controls and 6 multiplex AD families. While the majority of participants was recruited in Lima,45% controls and 7% of cases have been recruited in regions outside Lima. We have confirmed a significant association between APOE and AD in Peruvian Population higher than we have observed in non-Hispanics. In addition to ascertainment activities, we are working closely with the respective sites to develop a network and resources for AD research across Peru. To date, we have developed local research capacities within each region, including training opportunities for investigators, coordinators and lab technicians, and basic equipment for all regions. <h3>Conclusions:</h3> PeADI study shows the importance of equitable international north-south cooperation and local network cooperation to increase representation of understudied admixed populations to help us understand Amerindian ancestry in drug target discovery. <b>Disclosure:</b> Dr. Illanes-Manrique has nothing to disclose. Dr. Mena has nothing to disclose. Karina Milla-Neyra has nothing to disclose. Larry D. Adams has nothing to disclose. Dr. Mejia has nothing to disclose. Ms. Rios Pinto has received personal compensation in the range of $500-$4,999 for serving as a PSYCHOLOGIST with DOMINGO OLAVEGOYA HOSPITAL. The institution of Prof. Isasi has received research support from NIH. Dr. MEDINA has nothing to disclose. The institution of Dr. Beecham has received research support from NIH. The institution of an immediate family member of Dr. Beecham has received research support from NIH. Dr. Cornejo-Herrera has nothing to disclose. Dr. Vance has received personal compensation in the range of $500-$4,999 for serving as an Editor, Associate Editor, or Editorial Advisory Board Member for neurology genetics. Dr. Ochoa has nothing to disclose. The institution of Dr. Suarez has received research support from Alzheimer’s Association. Michael L. Cuccaro has nothing to disclose. Dr. Sarapura-Castro has nothing to disclose. Miss Cubas-Montecino has received research support from Fundacion San Marcos. Miss Cubas-Montecino has received personal compensation in the range of $500-$4,999 for serving as a Lab Technician with Fundacion San Marcos. The institution of Dr. Cornejo Olivas has received research support from CONCYTEC-PROCIENCIA PERU. Dr. Cornejo Olivas has a non-compensated relationship as a Board member at Rare Disorders Burou (CCI-MINSA) with Ministry of Health in Peru that is relevant to AAN interests or activities. Dr. Pericak-Vance has nothing to disclose.

23 years of South-North partnership within theological education

In our globalized world, cross-cultural and inter-continental partnerships are becoming the norm, making bridge-building an essential element for achieving long-term success. We use the cooperation of over 20 years between Unisa, South Africa, and GBFE, Northern Europe, as a case study. GBFE is a network of thirteen colleges within Europe. This cooperation is unique because the stronger partner is from South Africa. This reverse asymmetry is in some sense post-colonial. In this paper, we analyze the question: “What are the benefits and the challenges of a South-North cooperation within theological education? Where is bridge-building essential for the long-term success of the partnership and what can be learned for other partnerships in reflecting on the bridges that were built in this example?” For analyzing this partnership, we make use of the metaphors of “bridge-building” and “swinging bridges”: Firstly, a swinging bridge between South Africa and Northern Europe; secondly, bridge-building between theory and practice, between academia and church; thirdly, bridge-building between different denominations and traditions. The case study is embedded into a general discussion about decolonization and the globalization of theological education.

Editorial du Professeur Serigne Omar Sarr

Dear readers, Dear authors ! The second publication of your quarterly journal is available on time thanks to the commitment of the peer reviewers, the publisher (Presses Universitaires de Dakar), the scientific and editorial committees and the Secretariat which made it possible to proceed within the planned deadlines and in scientific rigor, the evaluation and publication process. This volume 2, number 1 includes eight scientific articles submitted by young authors but also seasoned seniors which contributes to the transparent and equitable dissemination of science in open access. These original articles indexed in Scopus address medicinal and food plants, the optimization and validation of analytical methods for drug control, the quality of powdered milk sold in Dakar, the accessibility and quality of water in Mboro (Senegal), the quality of honeys from Casamance (Senegal), the continuing training of community pharmacists in particular. In the format of a Letter to the Editor, we are publishing a contribution from the American Pharmacopoeia through the PQM+ (Promoting the Quality of Medicines) team which sheds light on the problem of quality assurance of medicines in Africa South of the Sahara and the levels of performance/recognition of skills of official structures responsible for controlling the quality of medicines and other health products. The main results of this example of practical North-South cooperation are shared and bring a bit of hope in the fight against substandard/falsified medical products for better protection of population health through i) an efficient quality control infrastructure and ii) accessibility to quality, safe and effective medical products. This present issue pursues the objective of this journal which offers an opportunity to make Africa's scientific writing resonate more in a globalized world in which multidisciplinary and transversal analytical sciences are at the heart of any process of competitiveness, regulation and development. We thank the entire editorial team and peer reviewers for their collaboration. To your manuscripts and excellent reading!

Международное сотрудничество Перу для обеспечения гуманитарной безопасности и место России в нем

The article is devoted to consider the types of Peru's cooperation to ensure human security in the country. The purpose of the study is to analyze the interaction of the republic with international actors both in the Latin American region and beyond, as well as to build prospects for cooperation between Peru and Russia and advantages for the latter. The first part of the work examines Peru's foreign policy to ensure human security in the country, reveals three areas of cooperation: with international organizations, with the countries of the region and the countries of the world. The article provides data on programs conducted in Peru by international organizations under the auspices of the United Nations. When considering cooperation in the region, attention is paid to three types of cooperation in which the republic participates (North-South cooperation, South-South cooperation and trilateral cooperation). The author focuses on the desire of Latin American countries to regionalize and provides up-to-date information on the last two types of cooperation with the participation of Peru. Special attention is paid to cooperation with Japan, as one of the sponsors that promotes human security in the country. Cooperation between Russia and Peru is also reflected in the article. Having analyzed the process of establishing cooperation between the countries, the author describes possible points of interaction in the current international situation of Russia. Based on the Concept of Russia's foreign policy, the author suggests areas of cooperation with Peru and justifies their prospects. The results of the study are seen as conclusions about the strong integration of Peru into the systems of international cooperation and its focus on ensuring human security; promising areas of cooperation between Russia and Peru in the framework of ensuring human security.

No worry, dat sick go finish small time

This study evaluates the dual role of translators and interpreters working for NGOs involved in the health sector in developing countries. Given the crucial importance of public health in a nation’s development, we assess the way grassroots participation in healthcare projects and activities is enhanced through the translation of healthcare information into low-resource languages. This study, epistemologically grounded in the theory of planned behaviour (TPB), adopts a qualitative and quantitative methodological approach to correlate the TPB and the target-language choices of translator-interpreters and the translation strategies they adopt working with low-resource languages. The survey responses and audio recordings analysed are those of translators or interpreters working in a rural context in the Anglophone regions of Cameroon. The target language in question is Pidgin English, a low-resource oral language. The evidence gathered leads to the finding that various de-terminologization strategies are employed to ensure that messages are adequately disseminated and that the local community members are involved in healthcare activities. The study seeks to bring together translation, interpreting, the TPB, and international development in which the involvement of NGOs underscores North–South cooperation in the strategic domain of global healthcare.

The macrosociolinguistics of language contact

Abstract This contribution provides an overview of macrosociolinguistic approaches to the study of language contact, with a focus on contact languages. It addresses the current state of the art and future of the field. It also reflects on the global inequalities of power in the study of contact languages and the ways in which research on contact languages can serve as a model for North-South cooperation. Studies on contact languages and their histories of formation show how power and prestige are tightly connected to demographic factors and the political, economic, and ideological frameworks that mold language structures. They also inform us about the mechanisms that seemingly exert an influence on the correlations between structural and extra-linguistic factors. New areas of comparative inquiry with large datasets, new methods and varied contexts continue to diversify and further our understanding of the macrosociolinguistics of contact. These advances require a dialogue with other focus areas of sociolinguistics and a critical, self-reflective approach to the epistemological basis of the field.

COP26 and the dynamics of anti‐fossil fuel norms

AbstractNotwithstanding the clear contribution of fossil fuel production and consumption to global greenhouse gas emissions, fossil fuels have remained largely outside the focus of the international regime established by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The 2021 Glasgow Climate Change Conference (COP26) marked an important change, however, with fossil fuels featuring prominently in the intergovernmental negotiations as well as on the side‐lines of the conference. Here we discuss these developments as a site for contestations around “anti‐fossil fuel norms.” We argue that anti‐fossil fuel norms are increasingly being adopted and institutionalized. However, ongoing contestation among proponents and opponents of measures to tackle fossil fuels raises important questions over the specific content of emerging norms, the role of the fossil fuel industry in climate governance, the extent to which these norms “fit” with their broader normative context, and the conditions of North–South cooperation in which such norms are to be implemented.This article is categorized under: Policy and Governance &gt; International Policy Framework Policy and Governance &gt; Private Governance of Climate Change

China’s Belt and Road Initiative and South-South Cooperation

ABSTRACT China often emphasizes the imperialist nature of the North-South development cooperation model and considers it a threat to the Global South. The Chinese administration has officially declared that its development aid falls into the South-South cooperation (SSC) category and is essentially different from North-South cooperation. As an international cooperation initiative proposed by China, The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is the most concrete example of China’s understanding and practice of SSC. This article critically examines whether and to what extent China’s South-South cooperation offers an alternative to North-South cooperation. Benefiting from examples of China’s aid practices in Egypt within the scope of the BRI, this study argues that China’s aid practices replicate the pattern of the North-South aid relations and the Western imperial practices.

Decentralized North-South cooperation and rural territorial development, what articulation? Case of rural tourism projects in the provinces of AZILAL and KHENIFRA

Decentralized North-South cooperation and rural territorial development, what articulation? Case of rural tourism projects in the provinces of AZILAL and KHENIFRA

Ownership and Effectiveness of China’s Aid Projects in Africa

The notion of ‘ownership’ has occupied a central place in measuring the effectiveness of North–South cooperation. How is it represented in South–South cooperation (SSC) and how does it affect the effectiveness of SSC? There is no clear answer in the existing literature. In this article, we describe the representation of ‘ownership’ in SSC and explain how it has affected the process and impact of SSC projects using case studies of three uniformly designed Chinese agricultural aid projects in Mozambique, Tanzania, and Ethiopia. Based on long-term participatory observation and in-depth interviews, we find that ‘ownership’ in SSC is represented differently from project design to implementation. Divergence and ambiguity exist among different stakeholders on the operation of ‘ownership’. ‘Co-ownership’ of two partners at the local level contributes to the effectiveness of SSC projects while ‘de-ownership’ and ‘forced ownership’ have a negative impact on the survival and sustainable development of SSC projects.

Evaluation in Transition: The Promise and Challenge of South-South Cooperation

Abstract: In order for the evaluation field to ensure its salience over the next decade, high-profile areas of work have to be sought where evaluative practices are underexplored or undervalued yet can help inspire and accelerate urgently needed transformations while also advancing evaluation theory and practice. This article highlights one such opportunity, offered by South-South cooperation (SSC), an increasingly powerful force in international development yet overshadowed by the frameworks, narratives, and approaches of North-South cooperation (NSC), better known as international development cooperation or development aid. The values, principles, achievements, and challenges that define SSC are seldom discussed at evaluation events or in the evaluation literature, and development evaluation continues to be shaped largely by theories from the Global North and by North-South interactions, despite the growing prominence of SSC and the Global South in world affairs. This article is dedicated to creating awareness of the current situation by highlighting how more intensive engagement with the unique aspects and underexplored opportunities of SSC might help shift paradigms and practices in evaluation, especially but not only in the Global South.

Modalities of Cooperation and Policy Transfer: The Case of the European Programme for Social Cohesion in Latin America—EUROsociAL II

This paper analyses the capacity of the South–South cooperation model (SSC) to facilitate policy transfer between countries, as opposed to North–South cooperation modalities. To this end, the nature and evolution of SSC, and especially its horizontality, and the changes in the policy transfer (PT) actors, are analysed with reference to what is being transferred. It is assumed that the nature of developed SSC models, and the inequality of positioning policies in the global policy market, affect the content of what is transferred and limit the capacities of SSC to transfer policy models between countries in the South. The empirical contrast is made through the analysis of the Programme EUROsociAL II, which has transferred knowledge for social cohesion policies in Latin America through horizontal and vertical models.