ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the transformation in development architecture, focusing on the role of emerging powers and the growing relevance of South–South cooperation (SSC). It argues that the emergence of SSC has contributed to decentring the field of international development, both in terms of the agents authorised to play and the practices considered legitimate. Within this process the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation, led by the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee, and the United Nations Development Cooperation Forum have become two sites on the battlefield on which the borders of international development are being redrawn. The chapter provides a discussion of the development field’s constitution and SSC’s emergence. It addresses the field’s dynamics during the first decade of the twenty-first century, the birth of the effectiveness agenda, and the rise of SSC providers as protagonists within the field. The chapter concludes with the decentring process that took place at the end of the 2000s and after the Busan High Level Forum.
