Effektivt eller modernt utvecklingssamarbete? En organisationsteoretisk analys av 1990-talets svenska biståndsorganisation

Sammanfattning: The focus of this essay is Swedish bilateral development aid. With the help of organization theory I analyse the development aid strategies and policies of the 1990s, in order to examine how and why they were introduced. I investigate three different types of aid organization, namely structural adjustment programmes, political conditionality tied to aid co-operation, and equality policy as part of development co-operation. I analyze the introduction and subsequent use of these three co-operation forms to see whether they were applied and adopted into Swedish development aid because more efficient measures were required or because they were the most recent and modern ways of dealing with development co-operation. Organization theory presents these two ways of analyzing organization. They are occasionally competing and sometimes complementing each other in explaining organization. In this case I come to the conclusion that the accession of the structural adjustment programmes and equality policy in Swedish development aid all were introduced for reasons of both efficiency and new ways of thinking to a certain extent. The introduction of political conditionality measurements was mainly introduced out of efficiency reasons. Both models of organization analysis can therefore be used in explaining the organization of Swedish development policy in the 1990s, and in most cases they need each other for complementation.