Week 3: Service delivery Flashcards
1
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Batley and Rose
A
(2011) - Gov: Institutionalisation of NGOs
7 points:
- Govs and NGOs collaborate to improve service provision
- Leads to loss of autonomy and capacity for NGOs
- NGOs subject to institutional and organisational constraints
- Gov failure - NGOs fill in gaps - gov = minority provider
- Contractual and collaborative relations with govs
- Relationship = dynamic
- Questions of agency of NGOs and reputation of gov
2
Q
Edwards et al.
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(1999) - Global trends for change (naive)
5 points:
- Global trends = opportunity for more civic action
- Globalisation
- Political emergencies
- International cooperation to deal - Provides framework for NGOs innovation in economics, politics and sp
- Civic values should be motor for change
- NGOs need to rethink their mandates and strategy, need more accountability and transparency
- NGOs must be leaders and exemplars of societies they want to create ……….
3
Q
Laird
A
(2007) - Neoliberalism Ghana
3 points:
- Neoliberalism diversion of donor funding away from public sector to NGOs
- Power/influence differences between NGOs getting international funds and local NGOs getting local funds
- Motives of big funders (IOs) might control what NGOs do
4
Q
Lewis and Kanji
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(2009) - Roles of NGOs in development
4 Points:
- Service delivery/implementation (gap-fillers, purchaser-provider relation, institutionalisation of NGOs)
- Catalysis (precipitate change, boomerang effect)
- Partnership (active vs passive)
- NGOs can combine delivery and advocacy
5
Q
Lecture
A
- Normative = assumptions - what NGOs “should do”, “how” etc
- Functionalist = what NGOs actually do, not about ideologies
- Service provider roles for NGOs: Contracting - PPPs - social entreprises
- Negative (demand) vs positive (supply)
- Internal vs external forces for service provision
- and - of NGO service provider (for state and for NGOs)
- Assessment: efficiency, equity of access and quality
