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Mobile Professional Voluntarism and International Development : Killing Me Softly? / by Helen Louise Ackers, James Ackers-Johnson.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ackers, Helen Louise, Author.
- Ackers-Johnson, James, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Comparative government.
- Africa--Politics and government.
- Africa.
- Economic development.
- Europe--Politics and government.
- Europe.
- International organization.
- Comparative Politics.
- African Politics.
- Development Studies.
- European Politics.
- International Organization.
- Local Subjects:
- Comparative Politics.
- African Politics.
- Development Studies.
- European Politics.
- International Organization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (XV, 173 p. 13 illus., 11 illus. in color.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2017.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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'?.
- Notes:
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781137558336
- 1137558334
- OCLC:
- 969637139
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