Relationships for AidRosalind Eyben Taylor & Francis, 27/04/2012 - 192 من الصفحات International aid is about much more than money. The UN Millennium Development Goals and major events like Live 8 have focused the world spotlight on issues of poverty relief and aid like never before, but have not concentrated on the quality of relationships that can make aid succeed or fail. This book, authored by an internationally renowned group of aid practitioners, reveals the contradictions and challenges involved in forging these relationships. International development organizations combine the unbridled play of power and arrogant amnesia with serious and innovative efforts to create a more democratic world, to support transformative learning and to strengthen accountability. The book explores recent attempts from within aid agencies to go against the current flow of top-down results based management by learning how to build lasting partnerships that transfer power to those at the receiving end of aid. More than just a critique, the authors offer a practical framework for understanding relationships in the international aid system and look at the relevance of organizational learning theory, which is widely used in business. |
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... individuals and limited networks, tolerated but hardly supported by senior management. Relational notions of power challenge the idea of objective value-free knowledge because such knowledge — how we understand and describe the world ...
... individual professional learning is generated from the organizational context in which it takes place, as well as from the narratives that are chosen by the organization to communicate learning — discussed by Irvine and his co-authors ...
... individuals are emotionally and intellectually prepared, and if their organizations are capable of responding to the experiential learning that immersions offer. Immersions are uncomfortable because they challenge assumptions. Efforts ...
... individuals within them responsible for their performance in relation to their commitments. Thus, one definition of accountability is 'the obligation of power-holders to account for or take responsibility for their actions and choices ...
... individual contributors have received from those very aid organizations which we suspect of hegemonic pretensions. Where we see the unbridled play of power and arrogant amnesia, we also note serious and innovative efforts to create a ...
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Reflective Practice | 60 |
Organizational Learning through Valuebased Relationships Possibilities andChallenges | 113 |
Rosalind Eyben | 171 |
Index | 174 |