Collaborative social responsibility: Significance and perceptions of collaboration and corpo-rate social responsibility on joint-effort development impact

Abstract

The new development paradigm places emphasis on collaboration between government, private sector and civil society. The call for more collaboration between the private sector and the government has been adopted by the new foreign policy by the Dutch government. In 2012 the Netherlands introduced the Aid & Trade policy framework in which two previously separate activities were combined. This study investigates how these new expectations in development came to be and how they are addressed in literature, the NDP and the Aid & Trade policy. The study has also used DGGF in Ethiopia as a framework to examine how the private-sector and Dutch government perceive their roles in this new interaction, especially with regards to collaboration and CSR.