Mobile Professional Voluntarism and International Development [electronic resource] : Killing Me Softly? / by Helen Louise Ackers, James Ackers-Johnson.
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9781137558336
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/16759
Yazar
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2017.
Yayın Bilgisi
New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XV, 173 p. 13 illus., 11 illus. in color. online resource.
İçindekiler Notu
1. Mobile Professional Voluntarism and International Development 'Aid' -- 2. 'First Do No Harm': Professional Volunteers as Knowledge Intermediaries -- 3. Fetishizing and Commodifying 'Training'? -- 4. Can (Imported) Knowledge Change Systems? Understanding the Dynamics of Behaviour Change -- 5. Iterative Learning: 'Knowledge for Change'?.
Özet, vb.
This book is open access under a CC BY license. This book explores the impact that professional volunteers have on the low resource countries they choose to spend time in. Whilst individual volunteering may be of immediate benefit to individual patients, this intervention may have detrimental effects on local health systems; distorting labour markets, accentuating dependencies and creating opportunities for corruption. Improved volunteer deployment may avoid these risks and present opportunities for sustainable systems change. The empirical research presented in this book stems from a specific volunteering intervention funded by the Tropical Health Education Trust and focused on improving maternal and newborn health in Uganda. However, important opportunities exist for policy transfer to other contexts.
Konu
Comparative government.
Africa __ Politics and government.
Economic development.
Europe __ Politics and government.
International organization.
Comparative Politics.
African Politics.
Development Studies.
European Politics.
International Organization.
Africa __ Politics and government.
Economic development.
Europe __ Politics and government.
International organization.
Comparative Politics.
African Politics.
Development Studies.
European Politics.
International Organization.
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