How NGOs React
How NGOs React

Author: Iveta Silova

Publisher: Kumarian Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1565492579

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* Critical retrospective on the first decades of the transition from planned to free-market economy in Central Asia * Contributions from both Eastern and Western scholars * Includes both theoretical NGO research and practical examples taken from experience During the important, early years of post-socialist transformation in the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Mongolia, the Open Society Institute/Soros Foundation was arguably the largest and most influential network in the region. How NGOs React follows the Soros Foundation's educational reform programs there and raises larger questions about the role of NGOs in a centralist government, relationships NGOs have with international donors and development banks, and strategies NGOs use to interpret global reforms locally. The authors, all former or current educational experts of the Soros Foundation, analyze the post-socialist reform package at the country-level, highlighting the common features such as decentralization, privatization, vouchers and liberalization of the textbook publishing market. They look at the global reforms and their variations as they were transferred to Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan over the past decade. A unique combination of perspectives from Western as well as Eastern scholars based in the region makes this collection an essential retrospective on key processes involved in transforming educational systems since the collapse of the socialist bloc. Contributors: Tatiana Abdushukurova, Erika Dailey, Valentin Deichman, Natsagdorj Enkhtuya, Alexandr Ivanov, Saule Kalikova, Elmina Kazimzade, Anna Matiashvili and Armenuhi Tadevosyan.

Acquiescence Over Activism, how NGOs Manage Authoritarian Demands
Acquiescence Over Activism, how NGOs Manage Authoritarian Demands

Author: Jordan Alexander Holsinger

Publisher:

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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How do non-governmental organizations handle authoritarian pressure? NGOs exist to complete their missions, but can only do so when allowed by a regime. Meanwhile, autocrats benefit from NGO resources if they are not outweighed by costs that NGOs present. Despite this tension, authoritarian and semi-authoritarian settings are replete with NGOs. I employ a formal model to understand this paradox. I find that when a regime becomes more politically sensitive to NGOs, groups accommodate the regime by reducing costs. The model also suggests that NGOs with greater commitments to their host regime tend to reduce their activity. I use the announcement of controversial canal construction in Nicaragua as a quasi-experiment. The construction raised costs that NGOs presented, revealing how NGOs navigate the problem of operating where they are not welcome. I use an original dataset of 13,000 NGO budgets and geo-coded project locations to interrogate how NGOs react to politically fragile regimes. I demonstrate that NGOs respond to political sensitivity by operating in areas that support regime stability. Likewise, I demonstrate that NGOs committed to their promises, such as religious NGOs, exit in the event of a political shock.

NGO Accountability
NGO Accountability

Author: Lisa Jordan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-05-04

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1136560424

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As the fastest growing segment of civil society, as well as featuring prominently in the global political arena, NGOs are under fire for being 'unaccountable'. But who do NGOs actually represent? Who should they be accountable to and how? This book provides the first comprehensive examination of the issues and politics of NGO accountability across all sectors and internationally. It offers an assessment of the key technical tools available including legal accountability, certification and donor-based accountability regimes, and questions whether these are appropriate and viable options or attempts to 'roll-back' NGOs to a more one-dimensional function as organizers of national and global charity. Input and case studies are provided from NGOs such as ActionAid, and from every part of the globe including China, Indonesia and Uganda. In the spirit of moving towards greater accountability the book looks in detail at innovations that have developed from within NGOs and offers new approaches and flexible frameworks that enable accountability to become a reality for all parties worldwide.

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Publisher: Minority Rights Group

Published:

Total Pages: 95

ISBN-13:

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Routledge Handbook of NGOs and International Relations
Routledge Handbook of NGOs and International Relations

Author: Thomas Davies

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-04-09

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 1351977490

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Offering insights from pioneering new perspectives in addition to well-established traditions of research, this Handbook considers the activities not only of advocacy groups in the environmental, feminist, human rights, humanitarian, and peace sectors, but also the array of religious, professional, and business associations that make up the wider non-governmental organization (NGO) community. Including perspectives from multiple world regions, the book takes account of institutions in the Global South, alongside better-known structures of the Global North. International contributors from a range of disciplines cover all the major aspects of research into NGOs in International Relations to present: a comprehensive overview of the historical evolution of NGOs, the range of structural forms and international networks coverage of major theoretical perspectives illustrations of how NGOs are influential in every prominent issue-area of contemporary International Relations evaluation of the significant regional variations among NGOs and how regional contexts influence the nature and impact of NGOs analysis of the ways NGOs address authoritarianism, terrorism, and challenges to democracy, and how NGOs handle concerns surrounding their own legitimacy and accountability. Exploring contrasting theories, regional dimensions, and a wide range of contemporary challenges facing NGOs, this Handbook will be essential reading for students, scholars, and practitioners alike.

NGOs and Corporations
NGOs and Corporations

Author: Michael Yaziji

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-03-26

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 1139478400

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We live in a period marked by the ascendency of corporations. At the same time, the number of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) – such as Amnesty International, CARE, Greenpeace, Oxfam, Save the Children, and the WWF – has rapidly increased in the last twenty years. As a result, these two very different types of organization are playing an increasingly important role in shaping our society, yet they often have very different agendas. This book focuses on the dynamic interactions, both conflictual and collaborative, that exist between corporations and NGOs. It includes rigorous models, frameworks, and case studies to document the various ways that NGOs target corporations through boycotts, proxy campaigns, and other advocacy initiatives. It also explains the emerging pattern of cross-sectoral alliances and partnerships between corporations and NGOs. This book can help managers, activists, scholars, and students to better understand the nature, scope, and evolution of these complex interactions.

NGOs and Environmental Policies
NGOs and Environmental Policies

Author: David Potter

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-06-28

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 1135777853

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Covering the work of non-governmental organizations in trying to change the environmental policies of governments and business organizations, this study looks at field research in Asia and Africa, and relates it to theoretical issues in the academic field.

Politicizing Sex in Contemporary Africa
Politicizing Sex in Contemporary Africa

Author: Ashley Currier

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-11-29

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1108427898

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This timely account of politicized homophobia contests portrayals of the African continent as hopelessly homophobic, highlighting how elites deploy it.

Managing Nongovernmental Organizations
Managing Nongovernmental Organizations

Author: Frederik Claeyé

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-03-26

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1317913949

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The idea that international development aid needs to be better managed and coordinated gained currency in the early 1990s. The increasing emphasis on management has resulted in the present vogue of ‘managing for development results’ as one of the central tenets in the discourse on international aid. But how appropriate are these ideas, tools, and techniques for non-governmental development organizations (NGOs), and how much does geographic context matter? Examining the current debate on aid effectiveness and the role of NGOs in contributing to it, this book highlights the critical importance of understanding how the global and the local interact to increase aid efficacy and develop more culturally astute ways of managing NGOs. With a focus on NGOs active in sub-Saharan Africa as case studies, author Frederik Claeyé demonstrates that NGOs are not mere passive recipients of management knowledge and practices emanating from the global governance structure of international aid, but actively engage with these ideas and practices to translate and rework them through a local cultural lens. This process results in the emergence of unique hybrid management systems that combine the pressure to become more business-like with the mission to satisfy the demands of the communities they serve.