The Aid Chain: Coercion and Commitment in Development NGOs - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853396265 ISBN 13: 9781853396267

Publisher: ITDG Publishing, 2000

Synopsis

Significant proportions of aid already 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 conditionality and mutual commitment between international aid donors and recipient NGOs, North and South.

Fieldwork and case study material from Uganda and South Africa are used to support the authors' contention that 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--essentially technical-- definition of the roles of NGOs has worked to limit the extent of the very development that the organizations were initially established to promote.

About this title

Review:

"[A] scholarly and readable guide....this work will be a classic."--Tony Benn

About the Author:

Tina Wallace is an independent development consultant who has specialized in management and gender issues. She has studied and taught in Africa and Europe and has extensive NGO experience. She is now based in the UK, and teaches at Oxford Brookes University.

About this edition

• Publisher: ITDG Publishing
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1853396265
• ISBN 13: 9781853396267
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 220
• Editor: Wallace Tina