Research Nadia Molenaers

Abstract

Over the past two decades, statebuilding has emerged as a central yet contested concept of international engagement with fragile states, with new questions arising under the current global rise of authoritarianism. To remain in power, what are the mechanisms authoritarian regimes rely on to legitimate themselves? And what is the nature of interplay between these legitimation mechanisms and international engagement? These are the questions this research aims to answer, through exploratory within-case analysis. The research focusses on European statebuilding support to Burundi throughout the 2015 elections. While these elections sparked a legitimacy crisis, they did not prevent further consolidation of authoritarian rule. The applicant's preliminary findings point towards distinct stages of interplay between European engagement and domestic legitimation, following a shift from support to contestation of the incumbent regime. This shift, in turn, triggered notable changes in domestic legitimation, revealing both clear yet unexpected regime agency and the tactical use of time and temporality. Two provisional conclusions can be drawn from this. First, European actors have dealt inadequately with the legitimacy dimension of state fragility, and second, through the interplay with domestic legitimation they seem to have contributed to authoritarian regime consolidation. Process tracing, a suited method for inferring causality, will be used to further refine and conclude the analysis. test

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• Promoter: Molenaers Nadia
• Co-promoter: Vandeginste Stef
• Fellow: De Maesschalck Filip

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• Development processes, actors and policies

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• Research Project

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This policy oriented research maps the integration of the SDG goals, targets, indicators and principles in the Belgian Development Sector. This research is carried out by KULeuven (HIVA) and IOB (UAntwerpen).

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• Promoter: Molenaers Nadia

Research team(s)

• Development processes, actors and policies

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• Research Project

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This research is an evaluation of a project implemented by ICG (funded by the EU). The project aims at enhancing the early warning systems so that conflict can be prevented. The evaluation focusses on the implementation of the planned activities and does a 180° perception survey to assess performance of the project.

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• Promoter: Molenaers Nadia

Research team(s)

• Development processes, actors and policies

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• Research Project

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This evaluation aims at checking the extent to which the ICG internal activities, results match the mission, vision, policies and projected results. The evaluation covers the period 2017 and 2018. The evaluation will focus on the core activities of the organization.

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• Promoter: Molenaers Nadia

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• Development processes, actors and policies

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• Research Project

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Dit onderzoek is een deskstudie. Het tracht een duidelijk en genuanceerd overzicht te geven van de bestaande empirische resultaten van Algemene Budgetsteun aan Ontwikkelingslanden. Dit onderzoek werd uitgevoerd ism met Geske Dijkstra van ISS (Den Haag)

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• Promoter: Molenaers Nadia

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• Development processes, actors and policies

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• Research Project

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This project represents a formal service agreement between UA and on the other hand Min. Buitenlandse Zaken (NL). UA provides Min. Buitenlandse Zaken (NL) research results mentioned in the title of the project under the conditions as stipulated in this contract.

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• Promoter: Molenaers Nadia

Research team(s)

• Development processes, actors and policies

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• Research Project

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The work requested from the University of Antwerp is to provide a contribution to a larger political economy study of the African Union and 5 African REGs, which will attempt to answer the following central research question: How and why do different actors and factors affect REG/AU policy choice and its implementation in different thematic areas? The specific contribution of the University of Antwerp will be focused on the African Union's Programme of Infrastructure Development in Africa.

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• Promoter: Molenaers Nadia

Research team(s)

• Development processes, actors and policies

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• Research Project

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This project represents a formal research agreement between UA and on the other hand 11.11.11. UA provides 11.11.11research results mentioned in the title of the project under the conditions as stipulated in this contract.

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• Promoter: Molenaers Nadia

Research team(s)

• Development processes, actors and policies

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• Research Project

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Participation in the peer group for the IOB (Institute of Development Policy and Management) policy review titled 'Good governance: democratization, promotion of the rule of law and control of corruption".

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Molenaers Nadia

Research team(s)

• Development processes, actors and policies

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

This project represents a formal service agreement between UA and on the other hand Min. Buitenlandse Zaken (NL). UA provides Min. Buitenlandse Zaken (NL) research results mentioned in the title of the project under the conditions as stipulated in this contract.

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Molenaers Nadia

Research team(s)

• Development processes, actors and policies

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• Research Project

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The main objectives of this Mid-Term review are to: - identify and assess the results of the Uganda programme between 2009-2013 - analyse the results where possible relate the first effects of the programme on the political party system in Uganda and the political culture emerging - on the basis of the lessons learned so far, provide recommendations for the next phase of the Uganda programme in 2014-2016.

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• Promoter: Molenaers Nadia

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• Development processes, actors and policies

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• Research Project

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The project is built up around a comparative research studying the impact of different types of accountability mechanisms on the access to and quality of local service delivery, and the enabling (political) factors.

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• Promoter: Molenaers Nadia
• Co-promoter: Holvoet Nathalie

Research team(s)

• Development processes, actors and policies

Project type(s)

• Research Project

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Participation in the reference group to advise the Director of the Institute of Development Policy and Management (IOB) to support the quality of research and to give feedback of the research results.

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Molenaers Nadia

Research team(s)

• Development processes, actors and policies

Project type(s)

• Research Project

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The research project aims at contributing to the broad research question: How do developmental states, where formal institutions such as control over corruption, and/or voice and political rights are largely underdeveloped, manage the effective implementation of development policies and the achievement of developmental results? More particularly this research zooms in on the question if and how governments (and other stakeholders) in developmental states actually monitor policy implementation, if and how they monitor progress, if and how they evaluate policy implementation and impact, if and how the generated evidence is fed back into the policy cycle. How, in other words, are the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) arrangements operationalised in these states? And how different are these arrangements from the so-called ideal M&E systems which satisfy commonly agreed upon standards?

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• Promoter: Holvoet Nathalie
• Co-promoter: Molenaers Nadia

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• Development processes, actors and policies

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• Research Project

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The overall objectives of the O*platform are: -increased incorporation of insights on aid architecture and aid effectiveness in Belgian DC policy formulation and implementation -increased incorporation of insights on new aid architecture and aid effectiveness in development management in the South.

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• Promoter: Molenaers Nadia
• Promoter: Renard Robrecht
• Co-promoter: Cassimon Danny
• Co-promoter: Holvoet Nathalie
• Co-promoter: Molenaers Nadia

Research team(s)

• Development processes, actors and policies

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• Research Project

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Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Molenaers Nadia
• Co-promoter: Renard Robrecht

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• Research Project

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Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Renard Robrecht
• Co-promoter: Molenaers Nadia

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• Research Project

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Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Renard Robrecht
• Co-promoter: Molenaers Nadia

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• Research Project

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Researcher(s)

• Promoter: De Herdt Tom
• Co-promoter: De Feyter Koen
• Co-promoter: Molenaers Nadia
• Co-promoter: Timmerman Christiane
• Co-promoter: Van den Bosch Karel

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• Research Project

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Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Renard Robrecht
• Co-promoter: Molenaers Nadia

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• Research Project

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The Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers introduced additional to economic and financial conditionalities, a political conditionality. Recipient governments are to increase 'ownership' of the strategy by allowing for civil society participation in the formulation of the strategy. Our research focusses on the question: "Who is sitting at the participation table? And who is not?" Profiles of civil society actors that were included and those that were not included will be compared, distinguishing between the resources available to the organisations and their networks with donors, government actors and other civil society actors.

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• Promoter: Molenaers Nadia

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• Research Project

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PRSP is to be understood as a shorthand for a far reaching and encompassing reform of multilateral and bilateral aid relations with low-income countries, initiated in 2000, and to which Belgium has subscribed. This project concerns policy advisory work for the federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Directorate General of Development Cooperation, and has been granted for 4 years. The research group will concentrate its work on three dimensions of the PRSP, with gender as a crosscutting theme: the political economy of the PRSP; Monitoring and evaluating the PRSP, and fiscal and budgetary aspects. The activities that are envisaged in the framework of the project consist of (1) service delivery (output for the Belgian authorities), corresponding to 20% of the budget, in the form of drawing rights for training, advisory work, redaction of policy documents, and the like, and (2) scientific research (academic output) corresponding to 80% of the budget.

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Renard Robrecht
• Co-promoter: Cassimon Danny
• Co-promoter: Holvoet Nathalie
• Co-promoter: Molenaers Nadia

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• Research Project