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Author: Tina Wallace
Publisher: Practical Action Pub
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9781853396267
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study examines whether the existing aid processes widely used by donors and NGOs are effective in tackling poverty and exclusion and shows how the fast changing aid sector has encouraged the mainstreaming of a managerial approach that does not admit of any analysis of power relations or cultural diversity.
Author: Tina Wallace
Publisher: Practical Action
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 234
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the current patterns of donor-giving to UK nongovernmental organizations, how their work is influenced by the conditions from donors, and what drives the adoption of managerial approaches to development. Considers local partnerships, exemplified by case studies from Uganda and South Africa.
Author: Stuart Carr
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-06-23
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 1134767102
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides an original, psychological approach to development studies, focusing on the social aspects of aid and its motivational foundations.
Author: Malcolm MacLachlan
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Published: 2013-07-04
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 1848138342
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Aid Triangle focuses on the human dynamics of international aid and illustrates how the aid system incorporates power relationships, and therefore relationships of dominance. Using the concept of a triangle of dominance, justice and identity, this timely work explains how the experience of injustice is both a challenge and a stimulus to personal, community and national identity, and how such identities underlie the human potential that international aid should seek to enrich. This insightful new critique provides for the reader an innovative and constructive framework for producing more empowering and more effective aid.
Author: Rosalind Eyben
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-04-27
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 1136558829
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInternational aid is about much more than money. The UN Millennium Development Goals and major events like Live 8 have focused the world spotlight on issues of poverty relief and aid like never before, but have not concentrated on the quality of relationships that can make aid succeed or fail. This book, authored by an internationally renowned group of aid practitioners, reveals the contradictions and challenges involved in forging these relationships. International development organizations combine the unbridled play of power and arrogant amnesia with serious and innovative efforts to create a more democratic world, to support transformative learning and to strengthen accountability. The book explores recent attempts from within aid agencies to go against the current flow of top-down results based management by learning how to build lasting partnerships that transfer power to those at the receiving end of aid. More than just a critique, the authors offer a practical framework for understanding relationships in the international aid system and look at the relevance of organizational learning theory, which is widely used in business.
Author: Gyongyi Kovacs
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9781609608262
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book furthers the scholarly understanding of SCM in disaster relief, particularly establishing the central role of logistics in averting and limiting unnecessary hardships"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Mark Schuller
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2012-09-24
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 0813553644
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the 2015 Margaret Mead Award from the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology After Haiti’s 2010 earthquake, over half of U.S. households donated to thousands of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in that country. Yet we continue to hear stories of misery from Haiti. Why have NGOs failed at their mission? Set in Haiti during the 2004 coup and aftermath and enhanced by research conducted after the 2010 earthquake, Killing with Kindness analyzes the impact of official development aid on recipient NGOs and their relationships with local communities. Written like a detective story, the book offers rich ethnographic comparisons of two Haitian women’s NGOs working in HIV/AIDS prevention, one with public funding (including USAID), the other with private European NGO partners. Mark Schuller looks at participation and autonomy, analyzing donor policies that inhibit these goals. He focuses on NGOs’ roles as intermediaries in “gluing” the contemporary world system together and shows how power works within the aid system as these intermediaries impose interpretations of unclear mandates down the chain—a process Schuller calls “trickle-down imperialism.”
Author: Pushpa Sundar
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2020-11-29
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 1000083829
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores what difference development aid has made to the size, complexity, style of functioning, values and future direction of the NGO sector in India. It does this, first, by giving a comprehensive documentation of the experience of Indian NGOs with foreign aid since Independence. Simultaneously, it also analyses, in a broad historical perspective, some of the issues which are the subject of contemporary debate regarding the voluntary sector and aid, such as who decides ‘what’ is development and ‘how’ it should be brought about; whether foreign donors have hidden agendas, and if their aid amounts to cultural imperialism; and whether aid has made NGOs more self-reliant. The book also looks at the tripartite relationship between NGOs, donors, and governments, examining, for instance, whether the government is justified in imposing restrictions on receipt of funds by NGOs on the grounds that terrorist activities and religiously motivated communal strife are often financed with funds from abroad, with NGOs being used as fronts for both.
Author: Anne-Meike Fechter
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-16
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 113490911X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book considers how the personal and the professional dimensions are related, and how they matter for aid work. The contributions to this edited volume are based on the assumption that all actors are relevant in development, including national and international aid workers. A key question which the book explores is why the personal so often remains un-acknowledged in development studies, even though its salience for aid workers is well-documented. One possible reason is an implicit narrative of aid work as altruistic and self-sacrificing, which renders it inappropriate to devote much attention to the experiences of development professionals themselves. In order to redress this, this book critically considers the kind of difference they make, and aims to understand how they respond to the challenges of their work. The book explores their efficacy as human beings and employees with individual subjectivities, social and cultural beliefs and practices, and documents how these shape their involvement in development processes. This book was published a sa special issue of Third World Quarterly.
Author: Paul Hoebink
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-12-02
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 1137009772
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe authors present an overview of private development aid in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and the EU as a whole. They illustrate how private aid organisations receive support as well as the relations they have with their respective governments.
