BRICS COUNTRIES’
COOPERATION IN
HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS:
“NEW” DONORS &
OLD RULES
Ilya Ivanov
Program
assistant
RIAC
OUTLINE
 Humanitarian af fairs today
 New donors: types & approaches
 BRICS in the humanitarian af fairs
 Recommendations for the countries
HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS TODAY
 Humanitarian assistance is not ODA:
 Disasters
 Emergencies
 Humanitarian crises
 17.9 billion in 2012
 37,3% needs unmet
 2000-2008: 40% of disasters
in the Asia Pacific
 2008: 98% disaster-affected population
Source: Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2013
lives in the AP
NEW DONORS
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New donor=non-traditional donor=non-DAC donor
BRICS countries, Mexico, Indonesia, etc.
Former aid recipients
Aspire for higher status
Some not new: Russia ($26 bln. in 1986)
Source: Development Initiatives based on OECD DAC and UN OCHA FTS data
NEW DONORS: APPROACHES
 “Traditional approach”:
 Humanity
 Neutrality
 Impartiality
 Independence
 High aid politicization
 “Disaster diplomacy”:
 Chinese aid to Japan in
2011 - $16,5 mln.
 Chinese aid to the
Philippines in 2013 - $100
000
 Conceptual obstacles
 Non-traditional
approach:
 South-South cooperation
 Donor-recipient equality
 “New stream” in
humanitarianism
 Regional & thematic
concentration
BRICS IN THE HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS
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BRICS – not a humanitarian organization, but has capabilities
BRICS countries showing interest in ODA & HA
BRICS=majority of non-DAC donors
Humanitarian crises may af fect all BRICS countries
BRICS Development Bank (as a funding basis)
Source: White, S. (2011) Emerging Powers, Emerging Donors
RECOMMENDATIONS
Improve coordination
Create financial mechanism ( BRICS Development Bank)
Intra-BRICS dialogue on ODA & HA
Create an “OECD for non-DAC donors”
Introduce new approaches
Promote OECD-BRICS cooperation
Set the global non-DAC agenda
Introduce new rules, based on South -South coop., sovereignty
& equality
 Promote states’ soft power & improve image
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR
ATTENTION