Relações internacionais e cooperação norte-sul: impacto de agências não governamentais de cooperação internacional no sistema de gestão de organizações da sociedade civil no Estado da Bahia

Abstract

This Master dissertation’s purpose is to reflect upon the phenomenon of international relations in particular within the scope of cooperation between NGOs situated in the northern and southern hemispheres. It seeks to identify the impacts of German non governmental agencies on management models developed by civil society organizations in the federate-state of Bahia (Brazil) over the past ten years. The research was based on a multi-case study of the Associação dos Advogados dos Trabalhadores da Bahia (AATR), the Grupo de Apoio e Prevenção a Aids da Bahia (GAPA-BA), and the Coordenadoria Ecumênica de Serviços (CESE), Bahian civil society organizations that developed a cooperative relationship with Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst (EED), Misereor, and Brot Fuer die Welt, the three German nongovernmental cooperation agencies analyzed in this study. By means of empirical research, the impacts were analyzed in terms of the organization´s management, its thematic development, its economic sustainability and political strategies. The study showed evidence of a significant influence, at times conflictive, of the three German agencies on the management model of the three Bahian CSOs.