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Poland: Attempts at Defining Aid by Solidarity, Democracy and Development

Drążkiewicz-Grodzicka, Elżbieta LU orcid (2015) p.43-63
Abstract
On 20 March 2012, the Polish Council of Ministers adopted Poland’s first Multiannual Development Cooperation Programme. Its title ‘Solidarity, Democracy, Development’ reflects the ongoing debates which surround Polish aid, and the problem with finding an agreement in defining how the Polish Official Development Assistance (ODA) should look. As I will describe in this chapter, since the process of establishing Polish Aid commenced during the EU accession process up until now, Polish foreign aid professionals are trapped between two competing paradigms. Their work is described in terms of ‘democracy promotion’ and ‘sharing transition experiences’: a trope which is fulfilling national sentiments and interests through involvement in Eastern... (More)
On 20 March 2012, the Polish Council of Ministers adopted Poland’s first Multiannual Development Cooperation Programme. Its title ‘Solidarity, Democracy, Development’ reflects the ongoing debates which surround Polish aid, and the problem with finding an agreement in defining how the Polish Official Development Assistance (ODA) should look. As I will describe in this chapter, since the process of establishing Polish Aid commenced during the EU accession process up until now, Polish foreign aid professionals are trapped between two competing paradigms. Their work is described in terms of ‘democracy promotion’ and ‘sharing transition experiences’: a trope which is fulfilling national sentiments and interests through involvement in Eastern Europe, and a modality of aid in which ‘development’ is understood as the ‘eradication of poverty’ campaign with a special focus on Africa. This is a trajectory strongly encouraged by the EU and the OECD, and implemented with the support of the ‘Europeanization’ discourse. The respective weights these trajectories are receiving in the Polish ODA are well illustrated by the 2012 financial allocations; the countries of the Eastern Partnership received allocations worth PLN 110.4 million (approx. USD 39.42 million), while for African countries the corresponding amount was PLN 9.1 million (USD 3.2 million). (Less)
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foreign aid, international donors, EU, Poland, development assistance, democratisation, democracy promotion, humanitarianism
host publication
Development Cooperation of the ‘New’ EU Member States : Beyond Europeanization - Beyond Europeanization
editor
Horký-Hluch n, Ondrej and Lightfoot, Simon
pages
21 pages
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Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN
978-1-349-55837-7
978-1-137-50541-5
DOI
10.1057/9781137505415_3
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English
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  author       = {{Drążkiewicz-Grodzicka, Elżbieta}},
  booktitle    = {{Development Cooperation of the ‘New’ EU Member States : Beyond Europeanization}},
  editor       = {{Horký-Hluch n, Ondrej and Lightfoot, Simon}},
  isbn         = {{978-1-349-55837-7}},
  keywords     = {{foreign aid; international donors; EU; Poland; development assistance; democratisation; democracy promotion; humanitarianism}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{43--63}},
  publisher    = {{Palgrave Macmillan}},
  title        = {{Poland: Attempts at Defining Aid by Solidarity, Democracy and Development}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137505415_3}},
  doi          = {{10.1057/9781137505415_3}},
  year         = {{2015}},
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