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‘It’s just been such a horrible experience.’ Perceptions of gender mainstreaming by practitioners in South African organisations

07/11/2012

11 pages long

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‘It’s just been such a horrible experience.’ Perceptions of gender mainstreaming by practitioners in South African organisations

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Gender mainstreaming experienced a boom of popularity in development organisations around the world following the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. This article contributes to understanding the current state of gender mainstreaming, with a focus on South Africa. Discussions with gender practitioners in South African non-government organisations point to the widespread rejection […]

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“Your kool-aid is not my kool-aid”: ideologies on microfinance within an INGO culture

01/09/2012

12 pages long

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Development investigations focus on synergies of institutional cultures for policy and practice. International non-governmental organisations (INGOs) currently enjoy a privileged position as harbingers of world culture unity. While there is contestation on INGOs as monolithic entities, few studies delve into the voices of actors within INGOs to provide for a more pluralistic perspective. This paper […]

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Reforming accountability in international NGOs: making sense of conflicting feedback

01/09/2012

15 pages long

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Home and field office staff disagreement often impedes international development NGOs (INGOs) from making their accountability systems more responsive to partner and community concerns. Drawing on a staff survey, and qualitative interviews across four country programmes, of a major INGO, three interlocking explanations for this disagreement are suggested: that staff perceive accountability practices differently because […]

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Variables affecting fieldworkers of NGOs in Pakistan

01/04/2012

12 pages long

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NGOs have played a key role in development since the end of World War II, and more so since the 1970s. Like elsewhere in the world, the state and the market catered to the different needs of people in Pakistan. With the arrival of foreign funding, NGOs emerged as a channel for dispersing resources to […]

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Teaching Amina to read

01/09/2011

4 pages long

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The Government of India has made strides in increasing its education spending and improving access to schools, but there is much left to do. Programmes have concentrated on the expansion of higher education in India. In fact, public spending per student on the tertiary level is over six times what it is on the primary […]

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NGOs and post-violence community development: holistic, multi-track ventures in Afghanistan

01/09/2011

12 pages long

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This article explores the interview narratives of six NGO directors working in Afghanistan regarding the holistic and multi-track nature of their NGO’s project work. Data analysis revealed that NGO leaders believed that effective NGO project work relies extensively on purposeful coordination with other NGOs, and is dependent on non-NGO actors such as the military, the […]

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Motivation in humanitarian health workers: a self-determination theory perspective

01/09/2011

14 pages long

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This paper emerged from the authors’ interest in why humanitarian health workers initially engage and remain in humanitarian work, often in the face of threats to safety and personal well-being. Semi-structured qualitative interviews assessed the consciously available reasons why individuals engaged in humanitarian health work. Interview data was unpacked through a thematic analysis. Using self-determination […]

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Identity and learning in international volunteerism: ‘Sport for Development and Peace’ internships

01/09/2011

12 pages long

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Young sportspersons now serve abroad within the ‘Sport for Development and Peace’ (SDP) movement. Drawing on interviews with former interns from Commonwealth Games Canada’s Canadian Sports Leadership Corps programme, this study explored what interns brought to, and learnt from, international SDP service. Interns confronted notions of expertise and privilege and, in some cases, considered the […]

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