num_pages: 240
description: NGOs set out to save lives relieve suffering and service basic human needs. They are committed to serving people across national borders and without regard to race ethnicity gender or religion and they offer crucial help during earthquakes tsunamis wars and pandemics. But with so many ailing areas in need of assistance how do these organizations decide where to goand who gets the aid?In The Good Project  Monika Krause dives into the intricacies of the decision-making process at NGOs and uncovers a basic It may be the case that relief agencies try to help people but in practical terms the main focus of their work is to produce projects. Agencies sell projects to key institutional donors and in the process the project and its beneficiaries become commodities. In an effort to guarantee a successful project organizations are incentivized to help those who are easy to help while those who are hardest to help often receive no assistance at all. The poorest of the world are made to compete against each other to become projectsand in exchange they offer legitimacy to aid agencies and donor governments. Sure to be controversial The Good Project offers a provocative new perspective on how NGOs succeed and fail on a local and global level.
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title: The Good Project: Humanitarian Relief NGOs and the Fragmentation of Reason
publisher: University of Chicago Press