NGOs and policy: The effectiveness of functionality and their impact on IDPs
International efforts to assist refugees largely fall into four areas. The first and most basic is to prevent the conditions that create refugees (or to alter the conditions if they do).
Richard Haass • The World
The nuance and inherent humility of the social sciences—the realization that development has to do with people, with human and social complexity, with cultural and traditional realities, and their willingness to struggle with the messy and multifaceted aspects of a problem—have no cachet in this metrics-driven, efficiency-seeking,
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evolving. Chaotic situations—such as a humanitarian disaster—often require that we act quickly to save lives or tend to emergencies before working to establish some sense of order. They call for a rapid response to distribute information and resources to where they are needed most, before addressing the underlying issues.
David Ehrlichman • Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change
To accomplish these critical goals, we need both responsive government and public awareness. This awareness is twofold: it’s awareness both of the challenges that need to be addressed (as opposed to the false challenges that don’t) and of the best ways to meet them.
Andrew McAfee • More From Less
Hegemonic practices (reinforcing and justifying the status quo) Ethnocentric projections (presenting one view as universal and superior) Ahistorical thinking (forgetting the role of historical legacies and complicities in shaping current problems) Depoliticized orientations (disregarding the impacts of power inequalities and delegitimizing dissent)
... See moreVanessa Machado De Oliveira • Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism
ideology, ignorance, and inertia—the three I’s—on the part of the expert, the aid worker, or the local policy maker, often explain why policies fail and why aid does not have the effect it should.
Abhijit V. Banerjee • Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
Has the intervention been conceived with Max-Neef’s theory of needs in mind? If so, what needs does it satisfy? Are they synergistic? • Is the intervention ‘synergistic’ ; meaning does it solve for more than one issue connected to the problem at a time? • What are the main barriers to its implementation/success? • How long could/should the... See more
Irwin • Future Visions Present Developing Ecologies of Interventions in the Present
can do, ignore the complexities of social and institutional constraints, often waste sums that would have been better spent more carefully and wreak havoc with the existing fabric of society in places they know very little about.” Moreover, they are not immune to fashion, delusion, corruption, and arrogance. Nor are they often held accountable to
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