Tag: Accountability
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Why a return to community accountability is the way forward for local philanthropy in Uganda
When a local Ugandan nonprofit accepts funds from a funder in the global north, the push for “visibility” and the requirement for branding blur the lines between Ugandan nonprofits and those of the global north. The consequence is that Ugandan nonprofits end up being perceived as successful, with huge incomes and budgets.
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Research Findings: NGOs and accountability issues
There are over 11 thousand Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in Uganda (Mwesigwa 2015) and those NGOs often operate within a binary paradigm in which they perceive themselves as the voice of Uganda’s civil societies, particularly of those sections of the population that they categorise as marginalised and/or oppressed. Thus, NGO descriptions of those for whom they…
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Research Findings: Governments do not trust NGOs
A story on non-governmental organisations (NGOs) recently caught my attention and set off my reflective mind. The story was titled: “How the NGO crackdown has spread to some democratic nations” (The Guardian Weekly 2015). The ‘democratic’ nations that were mentioned in the story were Israel, Ecuador and Hungary. According to the story, in Israel “NGOs…
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