Ramiro, P., 2012. Alianzas público-privadas para el desarrollo: RSC y relaciones ONGD-empresas. Oñati Socio-legal Series [online], 2 (4), 196-210. Available from: Abstract The current Master Plan of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) includes references to the need to promote public-private partnerships and to collaborate with the private sector «around shared goals of poverty reduction and sustainable human development». In this context, non-governmental

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... zations face a multi-faceted discussion: how should the relationship of NGOs with multinational companies be? Should they support companies that claim to act ethically and responsibly? Regarding the goal of poverty reduction, is it necessary to weave an alliance between the "private sector" and the world of development cooperation? Here arises a central question: what should be the role of NGOs when implementing policies on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)? In this paper, we explain the evolution of the agenda of international cooperation in the last decade in terms of taking account of large corporations as agents of development. Based on the paradigm of CSR, transnational corporations and international agencies have been articulating a discourse that focuses on the incorporation of the "private sector" in the strategies of cooperation as a driver of human development goals and fighting poverty. In the following pages we will show the different views that are in the field of development cooperation, with special attention to the characterization of the position that NGOs have developed around the possibilities of collaboration with transnational corporations, as well as some examples of "public-private partnerships for development" launched by multinational companies and NGOs in Spain.