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Showing 1 to 20 of 507 for “"NGO"”.
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Agency Through Ambiguity: Women NGO Workers in Jalalabad, Afghanistan
Pashtun women working for international NGOs and development organizations in Jalalabad Afghanistan balance the requirements of their employment with a set values, known as doing pashto, that guide their behavior as Pashtuns. These two influences on their lives are often contradictory. Based on …
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Ngo Imperialistic Invasion of Latin America: Yanquis Go Home
… study, and two personal narratives to argue that NGOs serve a neoliberal agenda and are not held accountable to the people who they claim to help. In pairing both Subaltern Theory and Critical Pedagogy, the author looks at power, social, and economic implications of NGO presence in Latin America. …
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A Participatory Evaluation of a Development NGO in Nicaragua
… in Nicaragua being served by a small US-based NGO on issues of development, participation, and healthcare. This was done through interviewing members of the organization and, mainly, through both surveying and interviewing members of the recipient community. Findings show that most of the …
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HELPING OTHERS OR HELPING ONESELF? NGO COORDINATION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
… among non- governmental organizations (NGOs) and the resulting consequences of these collaborations. The presence of NGOs in the international system is recognized with scholarly works examining what they are, what they do, and what is their role. However, it is also necessary to …
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NGO-State Relations: Freedom House Status and Cooperation Versus Conflict
… more cooperative relationships with the NGO sector than states with less. However, six case studies illustrate that this may not always be a correct assumption. To test this hypothesis, Freedom House statuses between 1991 and 2011 are averaged to provide an overall status of Free (Bolivia …
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Enslaving Development: An Anthropological Enquiry into the World of NGO
… of values that occurs in Bangladesh between NGOs and wider society. It examines the dynamics of BRAC, a large NGO, in order to illustrate the dissonance and inconsistencies in development discourse. Tension is evident in development, which is a multi-stranded process, in which each strand may …
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The partnership paradox: Principles and practice in North-South NGO relations
Contains fulltext : 91410.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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NGO Peacebuilding in Northern Uganda: Interrogating Liberal Peace from the Ground
The question of what agenda drives NGO peacebuilding in post-conflict setting has been raised in a number of literatures which make generalized conclusions that NGOs tend to respond to the liberal peace agenda, and in the process co-opt local peacebuilding initiatives. Liberal peace agenda refers …
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Conditional donor funding and its implications on NGO autonomy in East Africa
… placed on donor funds and their effect on NGO autonomy. The research takes Gunder Frank’s dependency theory as its theoretical framework which suggests that the third world was actively underdeveloped and conditioned to be recipients rather than producers. The same logic was then applied to …
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Misaligned needs: A study of CSR from an NGO and corporate perspective
… business and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs). Literature indicates that often projects are initiated by the corporate donor without taking into consideration the need and long-term impact their investment might have on the selected NGO and the community that NGO supports (Blowfield & …
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Making space to breathe : values, identity and accountability in a faith-based NGO
… with government on their faith-based NGO and its implications within the context of Christian mission. Notions of intentionality, accountability and legitimacy within the relationships with their stakeholders emerged as significant foundations for the work of the organisation. The …
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The legitimacy of NGO labour migration advocacy work with the state under neoliberalism
… empirical study brings together literature on NGO legitimacy, the State, and neoliberalism to examine the legitimacy of labour migration advocacy work in non-governmental organisations. Based on interviews with 39 people, the research examines the work between two large international …
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Aid and the news agenda: Exploring the forces shaping NGO-produced humanitarian media
… examines the external influences that shape NGO-produced news content concerning humanitarian crises in East, West and Central Africa. Employing a thematic analysis of semi-structured in-depth interviews with humanitarian communicators and a content analysis of the humanitarian press releases …
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A pattern of state and non-governmental organization (NGO) cooperation : the Philippine case
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1988.
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NGO coordination in humanitarian action : the case of Czech floods of August 2002
… level of coordination among Czech humanitarian NGOs responding to the devastating floods of 2002 with a view to better understand the challenges to and incentives for NGO coordination in humanitarian action and response. The results show that while an ad-hoc attempt was made to coordinate the …
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The experiences and perceptions of 6 NGO leaders on the role and value of formal and informal learning in leadership continuity in the NGO sector across 3 historical periods in South Africa
… I look at the experiences and perceptions of 6 NGO leaders in South Africa whom I locate within three historical periods. Within this context, I also explore the shifts in leadership and modes of learning, which I argue and based on my data analysis, were accompanied by broader shifts in the …
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Access to Environmental Justice: NGO Environmental Advocacy on Mining-Related Environmental Issues in Mongolia
… theory of environmental justice to determine how NGOs use substantive and procedural environmental rights to advocate for mining-affected nomadic communities in Mongolia. Environmental NGOs often possess legal and scientific expertise pertinent to resolving and mitigating environmental risks and …
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