In Proper Organization We Trust: On Extrapolation From Proper Organization Proxies
Susanna Alexius, Janet Vähämäki · 2024
Is variation in aid implementation a good thing?An official objective in development aid policy is to safeguard diversity in development aid implementation by honoring a variety of partners of varying organizational forms that operate in different institutional contexts.1 This objective is reflected in the so-called "actor groups" who receive and channel Swedish public aid funding: (1) civil society organizations, (2) private sector actors, (3) Swedish authorities in the public sector, and (4) research cooperation (see www.sida.se). 2 Within these actor groups, there are different organizational forms (public agencies, companies, associations and foundations, and universities and colleges).Embedded in the policy objective of safeguarding diversity is the idea that these different Obsessive Measurement Disorder or Pragmatic Bureaucracy?, 65-88