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Finding out rapidly: a soft systems approach to training needs analysis in Thailand

01/02/1999

15 pages long

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Thailand is experiencing the unfamiliar phenomenon of aid and multilateral agencies such as the World Bank and Asian Development Bank lending money for internal development programmes. In the economic boom years, aid was neither sought nor required since structural development was funded from the growth which South-East Asian countries had begun to take for granted. […]

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Northern words, Southern readings

01/02/1999

8 pages long

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The authors describe the phenomena of `perverse inertias’ – effects and tendencies which are the opposite of what was intended – in the context of Southern responses to Northern NGOs. Two specific impacts on recipient populations are discussed. `The project culture’, where `beneficiaries’ feel compelled to invent as many projects as they can, in line […]

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Briefing paper

Central America after Hurricane Mitch: Will the donors deliver?

03/12/1998

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12 pages long

Languages: English

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During the week of December 7, the international community will hold two meetings of vital importance to the future of Central America. The Paris Club of creditor nations will hold their regular monthly meeting in Paris on December 9; on their agenda will be discussions on debt relief for Central America. The leaders of Nicaragua, […]

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Pre-departure briefing for aid workers

01/08/1998

4 pages long

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Development methods

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This Research Round-Up provides a brief literature review of the use of pre-departure briefings (PDBs) for NGO staff delivering overseas aid programmes, especially from the point of view of Australian NGOs. The professionalism, productivity and effectiveness of aid workers can be enhanced using improved human resource management. The author reports the results of a questionnaire […]

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Book

Accountable Aid: Local Participation in Major Projects

01/01/1998

1 documents

177 pages long

Languages: English

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Accountable Aid evaluates participatory approaches to natural resource management by contrasting the different attitudes and methodologies of three international development institutions, through a critical study of the social and environmental impact of three major projects: the World Bank and the Rondonia Natural Resource Management Project (PLANAFLORO) in Brazil.

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Sustainable peace-building in the South: experiences from Latin America

01/11/1997

18 pages long

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While some recent conflicts have attracted international attention, other long-term conflicts with high accumulative death tolls have been relatively ignored. A decontextualised and partial view of conflict and violence is further encouraged by the separation between the emergency and development sections in many Northern aid agencies. Drawing on detailed case-studies of post-conflict experience in El […]

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Non-neutral humanitarianism: NGOs and the Rwanda crisis

01/11/1997

11 pages long

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NGOs play an increasingly important role in humanitarian work, and the impact of their activities is often non-neutral in relation to the conflicts which underlie crises. This was the case in the Rwanda crisis, during which some NGOs lent support to the forces of the genocidal Rwandan regime through their choice of where to work; […]

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For better? For worse? Humanitarian aid in conflict

01/11/1997

12 pages long

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Humanitarian aid should be judged against international humanitarian law (IHL) which gives civilians certain rights, including protection in armed conflicts. Aid agencies should consider the various side-effects of their interventions in order to assess the net impact, and decide whether to work in any given situation. They have no responsibility to provide aid where the […]

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‘Dancing with the prince’: NGO’s survival strategics in the Afghan conflict

01/08/1996

12 pages long

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Afghan NGOs have been a major provider of humanitarian aid throughout the Afghan conflict. They remained operational during this period by ‘dancing’ with and between the various parties to the conflict, their survival contingent on their ability to build ad hoc patterns of alliance and cooperation. This article explores the nature of ‘the dance’ between […]

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NGOs and the State: a case study from Uganda

01/08/1996

8 pages long

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An analysis is presented of research carried out in 1995, focusing on programmes funded by an NGO, Oxfam, as the basis of a case study of the Ugandan health sector. The involvement of NGOs in service provision for the state in Uganda is discussed together with the changing trends in aid distribution and what they […]

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