The BPC/PUC-Rio researcher Isabel Rocha de Siqueira published an article in the Review of International Studies journal.

The researcher Isabel Rocha de Siqueira from BPC/PUC-Rio published an article titled “Localizing the UN 2030 Agenda: IO technocracy’s engagement with territory-based approaches to data” in the journal Review of International Studies (RIS). This article will be part of a special edition titled “The Pluralization of Expertise: The Good, the Glamorous, and the Political,” organized by Annabelle Littoz-Monnet, Leandro Montes Ruiz and Juanita Uribe of the Graduate Institute in Geneva.

The text is the result of research funded by CNPq and FAPERJ and reflects a key part of the dialogues being conducted by the Critical Approaches to Development Network (ACD-Rede), coordinated by Professor Isabel Rocha de Siqueira. The research has involved various outreach activities, including dialogues with partners and the co-production of socially relevant knowledge. Several activities and other developments are underway and involve undergraduate, graduate, and alumni students.

The article critiques the traditional development model based on “experts” and analyzes how international organizations incorporate more diverse knowledge, especially through participatory approaches from the Global South, pointing out important limitations. It studies, in practice, how this happens by comparing the territorialization of the UN’s 2030 Agenda in peripheral communities of Rio de Janeiro with standardized data disaggregation initiatives used by UN agencies.