The Aid Chain - Coercion and Commitment in Development NGOs (Paperback)

The Aid Chain explores the role of funding conditions in shaping co-operation and resistance as aid moves from donors, to NGOs, to local communities. Significant proportions of aid flow through the non-governmental sector but questions are increasingly being asked about the role of NGOs and whether they can deliver on their ambitious claims. This study examines whether the existing aid processes widely used by donors and NGOs are effective in tackling poverty and exclusion. Findings from fieldwork in Uganda, South Africa and the UK are used to show how the fast changing aid sector has, in the context of a dynamic policy environment, encouraged the mainstreaming of a managerial approach that does not admit of any analysis of power relations or cultural diversity. This increasing definition of the roles of NGOs as essentially technical, limits the extent of the very development that the organizations were initially established to promote. 'This disturbing and dramatically important book has been crying out to be written. It is a stark revelation of uncomfortable realities from which we often try to hide...Anyone working in an aid organization who is serious about achieving the MDGs has to read this book, and to act on its lessons. ' Robert Chambers

General

Imprint:	Practical Action Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2007
First published:	December 2007
Authors:	Tina Wallace (Honorary Senior Research Fellow) • Lisa Bornstein • Jennifer Chapman
Dimensions:	156 x 234 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-1-85339-626-7
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Development studies Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social work > Aid & relief programmes Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
LSN:	1-85339-626-5
Barcode:	9781853396267

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