NGO Studies

Rosalind Eyben

• anthropology + development bureaucrat
• UK dfid in 2000 > la paz, bolivia
• micro-level reality
• macro - level policy

picnics, parties, dinner at Dumas cafe

"A donor community is a political presence."

tensions / influences

• Mr. a - country aid agency
• Mr. b - multilateral org
• hq/field office
• global policy (Paris declaration on aid effectiveness oecd 2005)

profession / proximities / place

"crowds were rioting on the main street .... wiping our eyes from the tear gas that had seeped in through cracks in the windows and we continued to ignore the riot and discuss the contents of the poverty reduction strategy." (p. 154)

2005 government change

ruptures (p. 150-154): 30 years war reference, identity cards and donor-led initiative, no formal goodbye, plastic brooms from chile

David Lewis: Tidy Concepts, messy lives

artificial divisions

• at home / overseas
• government / nonprofit

should be informal transfer of knowledge but overseas / at home coexist 'uneasily' (p. 184)

pg. 194 - a colonially rooted discourse that distinguishes poverty in the UK from poverty in the 'third world', thereby denying both the interconnectedness of global social inequalities and links with the poverty-related domestic issues and imof immgration and racism

pg. 184 - the persistence of these two professional worlds reflects a dominant and problematic binary worldview that continues to separate problems of poverty and social justice in the UK from those in the rest of the world. The binary worldview seeks to conceal- indeed largely obscures- a range of continuities and connections in relation to migration, displacement, trade, conflict, transnational instutions and many other interrelated elements among broader landscapes of conial and global

barrier to the travel of ideas, p. 190

Life story accounts (p. 187-189): 'dirt under my fingernails', postcolonial context, 'we've got an awful lot of problems here'....

ngo studies to get at structured impediments

ngo's as a site of learning

insights around normalizing structures

• formal / informal
• macro / micro
• acknowledged / unacknowledged

Turkish civil society, by Batuhan aydagul

politics in Turkey

• 2002: height of civil society
• 2018: change in political leadership
• chair, amnesty - in jail

lessons

• public agencies are not uniform
• society is plural
• allies can be found
• social capital: network with like-minded groups
• use of data and critical thinking

impact

the test