The charitable impulse
Subtitle: NGOs & development in East & North-East Africa
By: edited by Ondine Barrow & Michael Jennings.
Contributors: Barrow, Ondine, 1968-; Jennings, Michael, 1971-
Publisher: J. Currey; Kumarian Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford; Bloomfield, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781565491373; 9781565491380; 9780852558553; 9780852558560
Subjects: Humanitarian assistance -- Africa, Eastern.; Non-governmental organizations -- Africa, Eastern.; Aide humanitaire -- Afrique orientale.; Organisations non-gouvernementales -- Afrique orientale.; Niet-gouvernementele organisaties.; Hulpverlening.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-205) and index.
Table of contents: title: A glossary for new Samaritans / Philip Winter; title: Humanitarian politics in collapsed states: a critical appraisal of the role of international NGOs in the Somali crisis / Alexandros Yannis; title: International responses to famine in Ethiopia 1983-85: Christian aid & a political economy framework for action / Ondine Barrow; title: Creating alternatives: refugee relief & local development in Western Tanzania / Beth Elise Whitaker; title: "Trying to hold things together?" International NGOs caught up in an emergency in North-Western Uganda, 1996-97 / Mark Leopold; title: "Development is very political in Tanzania: Oxfam & the Chunya Integrated Development Programme, 1972-76 / Michael Jennings; title: Donors, NGOs & the state: governance & "civil society" in Tanzania / Tim Kelsall; title: Drawing a line between autonomy & governance: the state, civil society & NGOs in Ethiopia / John Campbell; title: Whose medicine counts? Health, healers & WHO in Kenya / Kirstin Johnson; title: Organisational & institutional learning in the humanitarian sector / Koenraad van Brabant.