Laerte Apolinário Júnior, Pietro Carlos de Rodrigues, Felipe Jukemura
{"title":"Private actors in the international development cooperation landscape: Examining international philanthropic foundations' activities in the Brazilian Amazon","authors":"Laerte Apolinário Júnior, Pietro Carlos de Rodrigues, Felipe Jukemura","doi":"10.1111/dpr.70079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.70079","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Motivation</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development emphasizes the crucial role of various stakeholders in achieving its ambitious goals. The increasing involvement of private actors in international development cooperation (IDC) has gained significant attention as potential partners in development initiatives.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Purpose</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article examines the role of international philanthropic foundations in the Brazilian Amazon as a case study to investigate how private actors contribute to IDC. By analysing their strategic focuses, funding patterns, and partnerships, the article seeks to map and systematize international philanthropic engagement in the Amazon region.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Approach and methods</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study presents an original dataset of projects funded by international philanthropic organizations in the Brazilian Amazon. The article advances an exploratory analysis, focusing mainly on three key dimensions highlighted in the literature, that serve as analytical lenses to organize the empirical mapping and interpret observed patterns: (i) the alignment in thematic priorities between international philanthropic foundations and the foreign policy agendas of their home governments; (ii) challenges related to legitimacy and accountability; and (iii) the role of international philanthropy in providing public goods and multisectoral cooperation.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Findings</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The findings reveal convergence between the strategic priorities of major international philanthropic foundations and US foreign aid objectives, particularly in areas such as human rights and scientific research. Persistent gaps in standardized public disclosure continue to constrain assessments of legitimacy and accountability, despite recent improvements in transparency frameworks. The study also underscores the expanding role of philanthropy in multi-stakeholder collaboration, marked by the growing relevance of Brazilian-led coordination mechanisms and the catalytic use of philanthropic resources to support financial innovation and derisking instruments for climate action and sustainable development.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Policy implications</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The conclusions emphasize the need to strengthen transparency and accountability in international philanthropic engagement. Clearer disclosure standards, along with stronger domestic philanthropic intermediaries and country-l","PeriodicalId":51478,"journal":{"name":"Development Policy Review","volume":"44 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/dpr.70079","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148282224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impact measurement and management as governance infrastructure in development finance: Catalytic or extractive?","authors":"Kate Bennett","doi":"10.1111/dpr.70075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.70075","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Motivation</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Impact measurement and management (IMM) has become a central pillar of development finance, yet concerns persist about whether prevailing approaches support genuinely catalytic outcomes or instead reinforce extractive dynamics. Although efforts to harmonize indicators and strengthen accountability have expanded, less attention has been paid to IMM frameworks themselves, including their design assumptions, embedded power relations, and governance effects.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Purpose</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study aims to assess whether widely used IMM frameworks are structurally aligned with catalytic, system-level change or whether they reproduce extractive logics. It asks how the design of IMM frameworks shapes what is valued, measured, and acted upon in development finance systems.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Approach and methods</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The article introduces a diagnostic typology that evaluates IMM systems in three dimensions: IMM design conditions, impact flow dynamics, and systemic feedback and regenerative capacity. Using qualitative, structured content analysis, the study examines a sample of widely used IMM tools and standards to identify recurring design patterns and structural tendencies.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Findings</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The analysis identifies design features associated with catalytic IMM, including participatory metric design, adaptive feedback loops, long-term systems thinking, and multi-directional accountability. It also highlights design patterns that signal extractive logic, such as context-free standardization, one-way reporting, and short-term impact horizons. While many frameworks reference systems thinking rhetorically, few operationalize it in ways that enable meaningful adaptation or systemic learning.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Policy implications</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>By treating IMM frameworks as institutional artefacts rather than neutral technical tools, the article reframes IMM as governance infrastructure. The findings suggest that donors, development finance institutions, and practitioners should prioritize IMM designs that embed participation, adaptive learning, and long-term system stewardship if impact measurement is to support development effectiveness rather than merely verify performance.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51478,"journal":{"name":"Development Policy Review","volume":"44 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/dpr.70075","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148097625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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