Aid, NGOs and the realities of women's lives : a perfect storm

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Aid, NGOs and the realities of women's lives : a perfect storm

edited by Tina Wallace and Fenella Porter, with Mark Ralph-Bowman

Practical Action, c2013

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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 explore alternative ways of conceptualizing development, and of bringing about improvements for the most marginalized and increasingly 'unheard' women. This book is essential reading for development practitioners and those working on women's rights, as well as NGO staff , researchers, and students of development studies.

Table of Contents

  • 1.Introduction
  • Tina Wallace and Fenella Porter
  • Section One - A Perfect Storm
  • 2.Development from the ground: A worm's eye view
  • Stan Thekaekara
  • 3.Evaluation, complexity, uncertainty - theories of change and some alternatives
  • Chris Mowles
  • 4. Losing Sight of our Purpose? Suzanne Walker
  • 5. Can girls save the world? Kate Grosser and Nikki van der Gaag
  • 6. Lost in Translation: Gender Mainstreaming in Afghanistan
  • Anastasiya Hozyainova
  • 7. Insulating the Developing Classes
  • Tom Scott-Smith
  • 8. Reconnecting Development Policy, People and History
  • David Lewis
  • Section Two - Changing conversations
  • 9. Taking our lead from reality - an open practice for social development
  • David Harding
  • 10. Women on wheels
  • Meenu Vadera
  • 11.Too young to be women, too old to be girls: The [Un]Changing Aid landscape and the reality of girls at risk
  • Seri Wendoh
  • 12. Looking Beyond the Numbers: reducing violence against women in Ghana
  • Kanwal Ahluwalia
  • 13. From local to global and back again - learning from Stepping Stones
  • Alice Welbourn
  • 14.Peace Practice Examined
  • Bridget Walker
  • 15. I don't know ... and related thoughts
  • Ashish Shah
  • 16.Apolitical stories of sanitation and suffering women
  • Deepa Joshi
  • 17.Conclusion
  • Tina Wallace

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