Italians and Development Cooperation
This report, based on two focus groups held in December 2023, examines the Italians’ opinion on development cooperation. Great attention is given to the issue of official development assistance (ODA), to the link between development cooperation and immigration and, finally, to the entities operating in this field, such as non-governmental organisations. This analysis is in continuity – both in terms of time and results – with the survey “Italians and Development Cooperation in 2023”, conducted by the Istituto Affari Internazionali in collaboration with the Political and Social Analysis Laboratory (LAPS) of the University of Siena.
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Rome, IAI, December 2024, 23 p. -
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Introduction
1. Official development assistance: Knowledge, objectives and funding
1.1 ODA: What it is and how much it is known
1.2 The objectives of ODA: Balancing humanitarian, economic and national interests
1.3 Funding ODA: The return of observed polarisations
1.4 ODA funding: Comparing defence spending and international contributions
2. The migration-development cooperation nexus
2.1 Development cooperation as a tool to reduce migration flows: Between doubts and certainties
2.2 Doubts about the effectiveness and existence of the ODA-migration link
2.3 Certainties and opportunism: The migration-ODA link
3. The actors of development cooperation
3.1 Who helps whom? The role of NGOs and other socio-institutional actors in cooperation
3.2 Generalised distrust toward social actors and NGOs
3.3 Selective trust in social actors and NGOs
3.4 How trust changes with institutional actors
4. The participants
4.1 What do they do? Volunteering and activism on development cooperation
4.2 Where do they get their information and what is their perception of the topic?
Conclusions
Italian version [8]