NGOs

From the field – 7 cases and a cautionary tale

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Since 2013 World Vision has been running seven DFID-funded “beneficiary feedback mechanism” experiments in health programmes in India and Africa with local partners. Earlier this month World Vision convened a highly informative day-long learning event in London where about 50 practitioners from across the globe discussed the experiments, aided by high quality documentation in video,[…]

Will efforts to cultivate the voices of the grassroots reinforce the tendency of northern NGOs to be accountable upward to donors rather than downward to those they serve?

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Not all efforts to cultivate the voices of the grassroots are well conceived. It is hard to tell from this article, but it looks like this may well be one of those efforts that will reinforce the tendency of northern NGOs to be accountable upward to donors rather than downward to those they serve. We are[…]