ABSTRACT
Policy coherence – or the goal of achieving an integrated policy towards developing countries – has played an important role in Dutch development policies from the 1970s onwards. Particularly in the 1990s, the concern has come to the forefront of the debate in relation to the Netherlands’ foreign and economic policies and to European Union policies. Coherence of policy could and should be found on many levels of internal and external policies. To limit the terrain covered by this chapter, a limited number of policy issues has been selected; these are issues that public and parliamentary debate in the Netherlands have identified as particularly important in demonstrating incoherences in policy, coinciding with subjects identified by DAC/OECD to be of major importance for policy coherence. 1
