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Donor Co‐Ordination or Donor Confusion? How Disputed Facts and Problem Framing Affect the Prospects for Aid Harmonization

An outspoken commitment in international development assistance is to promote donor coordination. Yet, how this ambition plays out in practice, or how feasible and realistic it is, has rarely been evaluated. Using the fisheries sector as a critical case, this article explores whether two major international actors, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Bank, meet the demands on policy harmonization as spelled out in the Paris Declaration on aid effectiveness. Through a systematic qualitative analysis, the article investigates if the policies of these actors are complementary or contradictory. It also discusses how the potential challenges to harmonization can be understood and what the broader implications for aid and development policies in general might be. 
 
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