Here to Help: NGOs Combating Poverty in Latin America - Softcover

Eversole, Robyn

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ISBN 10: 0765611074 ISBN 13: 9780765611079

Verlag: Routledge, 2003

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Over six billion dollars in developmental assistance is funneled annually through non-governmental organizations (NGOs), yet little is understood about the nature of their relationship with communities and the real impact of their work. This book examines what role NGOs really play in fighting poverty in Latin America. Expert NGO professionals and scholars explore grass-roots relationships between international religious and secular NGOs and poor communities. They probe the power structures, cultural assumptions, dangers and possibilities that underlie NGOs' work. While fighting poverty is the mission of many NGOs, most are aware that they often fail to make things better, and, in fact, may make things worse. By providing a forum for Northern and Southern NGOs, donors, scholars, and poor people themselves, this book explores the causes and cures of poverty, and presses at the boundaries of our understanding of participatory development. It identifies both internal and external factors that influence the success of NGO projects, and moves beyond standard best-practice theory to probe more deeply the relationships that underlie poverty and how these relationships can be shifted to achieve solutions.

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0765611074
• ISBN 13: 9780765611079
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 284