RP 10: Beyond Development

• Andrews, N., & Bawa, S. (2014). A Post-development Hoax? (Re)-examining the Past, Present and Future of Development Studies. Third World Quarterly, 35(6), 922–938.
• Cupples, J., & Glynn, K. (2013). Postdevelopment Television? Cultural Citizenship and the Mediation of Africa in Contemporary TV Drama. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 103(4): 1003–1021.
• Freeman, D., ed. (2012). Pentecostalism and Development. Churches, NGOs and Social Change in Africa . Palgrave Macmillan.
• Movuh, M. C. Y. (2012). Power, the Hidden Factor in Development Cooperation. An Example of Community Forestry in Cameroon. Open Journal of Forestry, 2(4), 240–251.
• West, A. (2014). Ubuntu and Business Ethics: Problems, Perspectives and Prospects . Journal of Business Ethics, 121(1): 47–61.

Journal 10: Helping Africa?

Activity 9: International Aid

 

• Doing good?
• Any harm?
• A Hope-Cynicism Spectrum?

Next Week: Aid

A Day without Dignity?

Journal 11: Help Yourself

RP11: Accounting for Aid

• Benon-be-isan Nyuur, R. et al. (2014). Corporate social responsibility in sub-saharan africa: Hindering and supporting factors. African Journal of Economic and Management Studies, 5(1), 93-113.
• Müller, T. R. The Long Shadow of Band Aid Humanitarianism: revisiting the dynamics between famine and celebrity, Third World Quarterly 34(3): 470-484.
• Peiffer, C. and R. Rose (2014) Why do some Africans pay bribes while other Africans don't? Afrobarometer Working Paper 148
• Smith, D. J. (2012) AIDS NGOS and corruption in Nigeria. Health & Place 18(3): 475–480
• Weckesser, A. M. (2011) Girls, gifts, and gender : an ethnography of the materiality of care in rural Mpumalanga, South Africa. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.

Activity 10: Aid Expertise

Adapted from Elizabeth Bloodgood

1. Organisational Design
2. Resources and Funding​
3. Principles and goals
4. Activities
5. Offices
6. Networking

Activity 10: Aid Expertise

1. Organisational Design

• ​Decision-making: vertical or horizontal
• Accountability
• Professionals or volunteers

Activity 10: Aid Expertise

2. Resources and Funding

• Acceptable sources, types, size
• Funding sustainability
• Tradeoffs/risks

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Activity 10: Aid Expertise

3. Principles and Goals

• Mission Statement

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Activity 10: Aid Expertise

4. Activities/Tactics

• Service provision (which services to whom?)
• Advocacy (insider or outsider, grassroots or professional)

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Activity 10: Aid Expertise

5. Offices

• How many offices?
• Located where?
• Division of labour?

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Activity 10: Aid Expertise

6. Networking

• With whom?​
  • ​INGOs, national nonprofits, IGOs, states, MNCs…
• Purposes and goals
• Expected costs and benefits