To What Extent Do NGOs and Governments Have Different Views on Development
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- Created on: 29-05-17 21:05
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- To What Extent do Governments and NGOs have Different Views on Development?
- NGOs
- organisation receiving voluntary donations to work independently of govts to aid development without making profits
- cannot be funded by govt bc makes them biased & not-impartial
- research and development - lobbying and pressure groups
- views depend on size and purpose of the organisation
- larger = broader view: focus on national and international issues
- but Oxfam also form partnerships with smaller NGOs
- smaller = more local expertise and smaller, more specific projects
- larger = broader view: focus on national and international issues
- Send A Cow, Uganda
- sends a cow to Ugandans so that they can provide for themselves
- must share knowledge & taught farming practices with other households if you get a cow
- locals distribute knowledge
- worked with over 40,000 households
- how do we decide who needs a cow? can cause conflict
- Oxfam
- development is redistribution of wealth from the global north to the global south
- works alongside LEDC governments and focuses on training and advice for local communities
- development is both top-down and bottom-up
- supports grassroots projects
- development is both top-down and bottom-up
- organisation receiving voluntary donations to work independently of govts to aid development without making profits
- Governments
- unit power over a nation state which sets and administers policy and exercises political and sovereign power through customs, institutions and laws
- can be: democracy (UK), republic (France), monarchy (Saudi Arabia), aristocracy (House of Lords), dictatorship (North Korea)
- Global north tends to be democratic
- try to have whole-country perspective of development as were elected
- modernisation as development
- poverty reduction as development
- modernisation as development
- try to have whole-country perspective of development as were elected
- Global South tends to be authoritarian
- tend to see development as helping their own tribe
- feeding egos = big projects, top-down
- poverty because of litter trickle-down
- feeding egos = big projects, top-down
- tend to see development as helping their own tribe
- Global north tends to be democratic
- can be: democracy (UK), republic (France), monarchy (Saudi Arabia), aristocracy (House of Lords), dictatorship (North Korea)
- Ugandan Government
- democratic republic
- priorities are education, security & good governance, energy & mineral development, agricultural productivity, employment opportunities, and developing infrastructure
- NDPII has large scale humanitarian perspective
- allocating money to education as a way to build secondary education - creates myth of meritocracy
- opposition: Forum For Democratic Change, holding demonstration - President been in power 30 years - violence after elections
- unit power over a nation state which sets and administers policy and exercises political and sovereign power through customs, institutions and laws
- NGOs
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