Development Ngos And Languages

Author : Hilary Footitt,Angela M. Crack,Wine Tesseur
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030517762

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Development NGOs and Languages by Hilary Footitt,Angela M. Crack,Wine Tesseur Pdf

This book addresses, for the first time, the question of how development NGOs attempt to 'listen' to communities in linguistically diverse environments. NGOs are under increasing pressure to demonstrate that they 'listen' to the people and communities that they are trying to serve, but this can be an immensely challenging task where there are significant language and cultural differences. However, until now, there has been no systematic study of the role of foreign languages in development work. The authors present findings based on interviews with a wide range of NGO staff and government officials, NGO archives, and observations of NGO-community interaction in country case studies. They suggest ways in which NGOs can reform their language policies to listen to the recipients of aid more effectively.

Author : Susannah Pickering-Saqqa
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000879353

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Researching Development NGOs by Susannah Pickering-Saqqa Pdf

This book offers a critical insight into how the study of NGOs can be more theoretically grounded and methodologically creative. The role of NGOs in global development has been the focus of considerable research and scholarship for the last four decades. More recently, scholars and NGO practitioners have begun to explore their relationships and how research can better inform practice and vice versa. This book addresses questions arising from such research, including: how different theoretical perspectives can be applied to the study of NGOs; what kinds of data can be used when trying to better understand NGOs; and what methods can be used in studying NGOs. Rather than evaluating the impact of NGO work, this is a book about how researchers and practitioners can better understand what NGOs do and how they operate. Bringing together work from a range of NGO researchers working across diverse disciplines and at varied stages of their academic careers, the collection is supported by recent case studies in the field as well as ‘dilemma boxes’ and discussion questions in every chapter. As such, Researching Development NGOs is an essential resource for postgraduate students of Research Methods in Development Studies, NGOs and Development Management as well as practitioners wanting to find out more about the sector.

Author : Jenny Pearce,Deborah Eade
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029509192

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Development, NGOS, and Civil Society by Jenny Pearce,Deborah Eade Pdf

The rise of neo-liberalism and the so-called Washington Consensus have generated a powerful international ideology concerning what constitutes good governance, democratization, and the proper roles of the State and civil society in advancing development. As public spending has declined, the nongovernment sector has benefited very significantly from taking on a service-delivery role. At the same time, NGOs, as representatives of civil society, are a convenient channel through which official agencies can promote political pluralism. But can NGOs simultaneously facilitate governments’ withdrawal from providing basic services for all and also claim to represent and speak for the poor and the disenfranchised? The chapters describe some of the tensions inherent in the roles being played by NGOs, and asks whether these organizations truly stand for anything fundamentally different from the agencies on whose largesse they increasingly depend.

Author : WINE. TESSEUR
Publisher : New Perspectives in Translation and Interpreting Studies
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367646889

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Translation as Social Justice by WINE. TESSEUR Pdf

This book analyzes the translation policies and practices of international non-governmental organizations (INGOs), engaging in critical questions around the ways in which translation can redress power dynamics between INGOs and their beneficiaries and the role of activist researchers in contributing to these debates. The volume examines the duality of translation and interpreting in INGOs, traditionally undervalued and under-resourced while simultaneously acknowledged as a powerful tool in ensuring these organizations work according to their own values of equal access to information, dialogue, and political representation. Drawing on over ten years of ethnographic fieldwork and interview data at a wide variety of INGOs, Tesseur offers unique insights into if and how INGOs plan for translation and interpreting needs while also critically reflecting on her own experience and the ways in which activist researchers like her can ensure social justice efforts are fully reflected in their own working practices. Encouraging a new interdisciplinary research agenda, the volume seeks to raise the profile of language and translation in humanitarian and development contexts and cross-disciplinary dialogue in scholarship on these issues. The book will be of interest to scholars in translation and interpreting studies, sociolinguistics, development studies, and international relations.

Author : David Lewis,Nazneen Kanji
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134051762

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Non-Governmental Organizations and Development by David Lewis,Nazneen Kanji Pdf

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are high profile actors in the field of international development, both as providers of services to vulnerable individuals and communities and as campaigning policy advocates. This book provides a critical introduction to the wide-ranging topic of NGOs and development. Written by two authors with more than twenty years experience of research and practice in the field, the book combines a critical overview of the main research literature with a set of up-to-date theoretical and practical insights drawn from experience in Asia, Europe, Africa and elsewhere. It highlights the importance of NGOs in development, but it also engages fully with the criticisms that the increased profile of NGOs in development now attracts. Non-Governmental Organizations and Development begins with a discussion of the wide diversity of NGOs and their roles, and locates their recent rise to prominence within broader histories of struggle as well as within the ideological context of neo-liberalism. It then moves on to analyze how interest in NGOs has both reflected and informed wider theoretical trends and debates within development studies, before analyzing NGOs and their practices, using a broad range of short case studies of successful and unsuccessful interventions. David Lewis and Nazneen Kanji then moves on to describe the ways in which NGOs are increasingly important in relation to ideas and debates about ‘civil society’, globalization and the changing ideas and practices of international aid. The book argues that NGOs are now central to development theory and practice and are likely to remain important actors in development in the years to come. In order to appreciate the issues raised by their increasing diversity and complexity, the authors conclude that it is necessary to deploy a historically and theoretically informed perspective. This critical overview will be useful to students of development studies at undergraduate and masters levels, as well as to more general readers and practitioners. The format of the book includes figures, photographs and case studies as well as reader material in the form of summary points and questions. Despite the growing importance of the topic, no single short, up-to-date book exists that sets out the main issues in the form of a clearly written, academically-informed text: until now.

Author : Nikolas Barry-Shaw,Dru Oja Jay
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Non-governmental organizations
ISBN : UCBK:C110172115

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Paved with Good Intentions by Nikolas Barry-Shaw,Dru Oja Jay Pdf

NGOs are as Canadian as hockey, declared a 1988 Parliamentary report. Few institutions epitomize the foundational Canadian myth of international benevolence like the non-governmental organization devoted to development abroad. This book raises important questions about these organizations and their development projects: Just how non-governmental are organizations that get most of their funding from government agencies? What impact do these funding ties have on NGOs' ability to support popular demands for democratic reforms and wealth redistribution? What happens when NGOs support a repressive regime? What happens when NGOs bite the hand that feeds them?

Author : Anthony J. Bebbington,Samuel Hickey,Diana C. Mitlin
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781848136212

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Can NGOs Make a Difference? by Anthony J. Bebbington,Samuel Hickey,Diana C. Mitlin Pdf

Can non-governmental organisations contribute to more socially just, alternative forms of development? Or are they destined to work at the margins of dominant development models determined by others? Addressing this question, this book brings together leading international voices from academia, NGOs and the social movements. It provides a comprehensive update to the NGO literature and a range of critical new directions to thinking and acting around the challenge of development alternatives. The book's originality comes from the wide-range of new case-study material it presents, the conceptual approaches it offers for thinking about development alternatives, and the practical suggestions for NGOs. At the heart of this book is the argument that NGOs can and must re-engage with the project of seeking alternative development futures for the world's poorest and more marginal. This will require clearer analysis of the contemporary problems of uneven development, and a clear understanding of the types of alliances NGOs need to construct with other actors in civil society if they are to mount a credible challenge to disempowering processes of economic, social and political development.

Author : D. Hulme
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134160464

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Making a Difference by D. Hulme Pdf

As Western aid budgets are slashed and government involvement with aid programmes reduced, NGOs in the voluntary sector are finding themselves taking an ever-increasing share of development work overseas. As they do so, they are forced to grow and to assume new responsibilities, taking more important and wide-ranging decisions - in many cases, without having had the chance to step back and review the options before them and the best ways of maximizing the impact they make. This collection of essays explores the strategies available to NGOs to enhance their development work, reviewing the ways that options can be understood, appropriate programmes and likely problems.

Author : Paul Opoku-Mensah,David Lewis,Terje Tvedt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Case studies
ISBN : 8773077992

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Reconceptualising NGOs and Their Roles in Development by Paul Opoku-Mensah,David Lewis,Terje Tvedt Pdf

Twenty years after NGOs first emerged as objects of development research, much of the research on non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and development to date has been of a variable quality. While much useful work has been done, the development NGO research field is nonetheless characterised by a combination of an over-identification with NGOs, an excessive emphasis on technical/organisational issues and a lack of theoretical-contextual analysis. The result has been work that often bows to policy rhetoric and uncritically and unhelpfully serves to sustain a set of myths about NGOs and their performance - of both a positive and a negative kind. This volume seeks to present less well-rehearsed perspectives. Its thirteen chapters are each written by authoritative researchers in the field. The book has two main objectives: to describe and interpret key aspects of NGOs' changing roles in development, and to present new analytical approaches. A key priority is to present work that is rooted in stronger theoretical frameworks than has previously been the case, while still maintaining a relevance to policy and practice. The authors represented here are critical of many of the theories and concepts that frame the discourse on development NGOs and many of them propose alternative analytical approaches. In particular they seek to analytically integrate the international aid system in theoretical schemas that seek to explain NGOs and their roles in development. The overall aim of the book is to move forward the critical research agenda on NGOs and development by challenging its normative biases, using approaches drawn from a range of disciplinary perspectives including historical ethnography, organizational studies, political science, critical theory and anthropology.

Author : Deborah Eade
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111963927

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Development and Advocacy by Deborah Eade Pdf

In recent years advocacy work has come under increasing criticism. NGOs are challenged on the grounds of: legitimacy, effectiveness, role, and strategy. As international grassroots advocacy is becoming more vocal thanks to new communication technologies; what is the appropriate role for Northern NGOs?

Author : Ryerson Christie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415693967

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Peacebuilding and NGOs by Ryerson Christie Pdf

Analysing the relationship between civil society and the state, this book lays bare the assumptions informing peacebuilding practices and demonstrates through empirical research how such practices have led to new dynamics of conflict. The drive to establish a sustainable liberal peace largely escapes critical examination. When such attention is paid to peacebuilding practices, scholars tend to concentrate either on the military components of the mission or on the liberal economic reforms. This means that the roles of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and the impact of attempting to nurture Northern forms of civil society is often overlooked. Focusing on the case of Cambodia, this book seeks to examine the assumptions underlying peacebuilding policies in order to highlight the reliance on a particular, linear reading of European / North American history. The author argues that such policies, in fostering a particular form of civil society, have affected patterns of conflict; dictating when and where politics can occur and who is empowered to participate in such practices. Drawing on interviews with NGO representatives and government representatives, this volume will assert that while the expansion of civil society may resolve some sources of conflict, its introduction has also created new dynamics of contestation. This book will be of much interest to students of peacebuilding, conflict resolution, development studies, S.E. Asian politics, and IR in general.

Author : Julie Fisher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Democracy
ISBN : UCSD:31822025435645

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Nongovernments by Julie Fisher Pdf

A complete overview of the composition and types of NGOs that have emerged in recent years. Julie Fisher describes in detail the influence these organizations have had on political systems throughout the world and the hope their existence holds for the realization of sustainable development.

Author : David Lewis,Tina Wallace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Non-governmental organizations
ISBN : OCLC:1348902116

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Development NGOs and the Challenge of Change by David Lewis,Tina Wallace Pdf

Author : Jennifer N. Brass
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107162983

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Allies or Adversaries by Jennifer N. Brass Pdf

This book explores how rise of NGOs in developing countries has affected service provision, governance, state-society relations, and state development.

Author : Deborah Hill,Felix K. Ameka
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030935221

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Languages, Linguistics and Development Practices by Deborah Hill,Felix K. Ameka Pdf

This edited book presents case-studies and reflections on the role of languages and their analytic study in development practices across four regions: Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Pacific. The authors highlight the importance of conceptual studies of languages and cultures, as well as language choice, for enhancing development practices, demonstrating the value that language analysis and the humanities can add to the already multi-disciplinary field of Development Studies. The chapters draw on the fields of linguistics, human geography, education, diverse economies, community learning, sociology, and anthropology, and topics covered include some significant areas of interest to sustainable human development: education, work, finances, age, gender; as well as a key approach to development (asset-based community development). Chapters on informal adult learning provide opportunities to explore how and why language and linguistic analysis is relevant to development projects. The volume aims to promote collaboration and interdisciplinary dialogue and should be of interest to academics, practitioners and students of language and development, and to those working in the field of development globally.