NGOs, States and Donors Revisited: Still Too Close for Comfort?
World Development, 2015 Serious questions remain about the ability of NGOs to meet long-term transformative goals in their work for development and social justice. We investigate how, given their weak roots in civil society and the rising tide of technocracy that has swept ...
N. Banks, D. Hulme, M. Edwards
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Early-Responding Civil Society and a Late Coming State: Findings from Turkey during the Pandemic
Nonprofit Policy Forum, 2021 By building on available literature and interview notes with the NGOs working mainly on refugees and irregular migrants, this study examines the experiences of civil society in Turkey in the first 6 months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Doğan Erhan, Genç H Deniz
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From “Angels” to “Vice Smugglers”: the Criminalization of Sea Rescue NGOs in Italy
European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, 2020 Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have played a crucial role in conducting Search and Rescue (SAR) operations off the Libyan coast, assisting almost 120,000 migrants between 2014 and 2019. Their activities, however, have been increasingly criticized.
E. Cusumano, Matteo Villa
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Responsible leadership actions and achievement of societal purpose: Perspectives from the Kenyan health NGO sector [PDF]
Health Economics and Management Review, 2023 The primary goal of this study was to provide empirical evidence to improve understanding of how responsible leadership actions drive the societal purpose of health non-governmental organisations (NGOs).
Angela C. Ng’etich +1 more
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Harnessing the Power of NGOs and Social Workers: Enhancing Mental Health Resilience through Collaborative Efforts [PDF]
Social Science Chronicle, 2023 This comprehensive analysis delves into the endeavours of twenty-five non-governmental organizations (NGOs) alongside numerous dedicated social workers, all of whom have committed themselves to combatting global mental health issues.
Usha Aruna Priyanga Welhenage
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NGOs, NGO-ing, and NGO-graphy in Serbia
Focaal, 2022 Marek Mikuš. Frontiers of civil society: Government and hegemony in Serbia. New York: Berghahn Books, 2018.Theodora Vetta. Democracy struggles: NGOs and the politics of aid in Serbia. New York: Berghahn Books, 2019.
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The Institutional Settings of the Recovery of the NGO Sector in Post-Communist Countries
Comparative Economic Research, 2020 The purpose of the paper is to describe the process of creating institutional settings in three post-communist countries and analyze the change of the social trust in these countries in line with the development of legal and accounting rules and norms ...
Halina Waniak-Michalak +3 more
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The liminal position of the social movement "Serbian resistance movement" in the SFRY as an anticipator of a non-governmental organizations [PDF]
BaštinaThe paper explores the sociopolitical position of the "Serbian Resistance Movement" (1981- 1989) as a liminal body between a social movement and an NGO. The paper first analyzes whether social movements in the SFRY could have been an alternative to NGOs ...
Stjepanović Kornilova Milica S.
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Internationalism on the big screen: Films on the League of Nations
Studies in Communication Sciences, 2023 Building on the growing literature on the communication strategies of the League of Nations, this article discusses the films that a variety of actors made on the activities of the international organization. While the efforts of the League’s Secretariat
Pelle van Dijk
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Investigating the role of non-governmental organizations in solving social problems (Meta-analysis of research 1370-1398) [PDF]
فصلنامه رفاه اجتماعی, 2023 The purpose of this study was to meta-analyze the research conducted in the field of the role of NGOs in solving social problems. The statistical population of the study is all articles and dissertations done in Iran in this field in the years 1991-2019.
Khadijeh Hatami Khaljan +3 more
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