Abstract
Promoting sustainable energy solutions is a focal point of development cooperation in the Philippines: various bi- and multilateral donors are active in the field. They provide national policy advice, conduct capacity-building and support local demonstration projects. The field has diversified over the last decades. The Philippines can be taken as a specific example when one aims to discuss the positive and negative effects of a diversified development cooperation landscape. This article contributes to a broader debate on aid diversification that often lacks empirical evidence. This qualitative research is mainly based on semi-structured expert interviews and field trips to donor-driven renewable energy projects in the Philippines. It reveals both the positive and the negative effects of a diversified development cooperation landscape.
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Marquardt, J. (2016). Diversification in Practice: How Fragmented Aid Affects Renewable Energy Support in the Philippines. In: Klingebiel, S., Mahn, T., Negre, M. (eds) The Fragmentation of Aid. Rethinking International Development series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55357-7_14
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