Development Cooperation Decentralization by Local Government: A Comparative Study of Aid Policy in the United Kingdom and Germany [국제개발협력의 지방분권화에 대한 소고 : 영국과 독일의 원조정책 비교연구]

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss effectiveness and obstacles of development cooperation decentralization by employing a comparative case study of United Kingdom and Germany. With SDGs, international community has emphasized the importance of decentralization of development cooperaton, which means that the central governments admits roles and importance of local governments in aid activities, and allows decentralized approach by the local governments towards developing countries at the local level. Findings of this study have confirmed that decentralization can improve aid effectiveness in developing countries at the local level. At the same time, the German experience implies that we can minimize obstacles of decentralization in practice. This research suggests to conduct a further research on more case studies of decentralization so that we can contribute to development and advancement of decentralized approach of development cooperation in order to achieve development effectiveness both at the international level and local level. In the end, we expect that the results of the study, which employed a methodology of combining a theoretical approach into the policy cases, can contribute to the field of Area Studies as well as Development Studies.