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Aid, NGOs and the Realities of Women's Lives A Perfect Storm

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ISBN-10: 1853397792

ISBN-13: 9781853397790

Edition: 2013

Authors: Tina Wallace, Fenella Porter, Mark Ralph-Bowman

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Aid organizations have their origins in a desire to help the world’s poorest and most marginalized people – but are they reaching these people? Factors are coming together that put pressure on NGOs working in development: the economic crisis, the growing conditionality of aid, and increased competition for funding between NGOs. This creates ‘a perfect storm’ driven by a new language of aid, policies and procedures leaving poor women behind. This book explores how international NGOs are navigating these rapid changes that challenge their role and legitimacy, values, and overall purpose. The writers see a crisis for NGOs as they are pulled further from those they claim to work with; they also…    
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Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Practical Action Publishing
Publication date: 4/15/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

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.

Fenella Porter lectures in development at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has been an activist and researcher on development and gender, with NGOs and women's organizations in Africa and the UK.

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and acronyms
Introduction: Aid, NGOs and the shrinking space for women: a perfect storm
A perfect storm
Development from the ground: a worm's eye view
Evaluation, complexity, uncertainty - theories of change and some alternatives
Losing sight of our purpose?
Can girls save the world?
Lost in translation: gender mainstreaming in Afghanistan
Insulating the developing classes
Reconnecting development policy, people, and history
Changing conversations
Taking our lead from reality - an open practice for social development
Women on wheels
Too young to be women, too old to be girls: the (un)changing aid landscape and the reality of girls at risk
Looking beyond the numbers: reducing violence against women in Ghana
From local to global and back again - learning from Stepping Stones
Peace practice examined
I don't know … and related thoughts
Apolitical stories of sanitation and suffering women
Postscript
Index