Doing Public Good?: Private Actors, Evaluation, and Public Value

ISBN-13: 9781032242583 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 222 str.

R. Pablo Guerrero O.; Peter Wilkins

Opis

This book examines the contributions of non-public organizations, such as foundations, philanthropies, charities, non-governmental organizations, private businesses, and entrepreneurs to public goods and services.

Spis treści

Foreword, Ray C. Rist

Preface, R. Pablo Guerrero O. and Peter Wilkins

Part I: Concepts, Questions, and Context

1 The Provision and Evaluation of Public Services by Nonpublic Actors: Concepts and Questions
Andrew Gray

2 Three Models of Doing Good: Recognizing the Implications of Delivering Behavior Change and System Transformation
Tom Ling

3 Philanthropy, the State, and Public Goods
Tobias Jung and Jenny Harrow

Part II: Cases

4 Accountability for the Public Policy Contribution of Not-for-Profit Organizations: Who is Accountable to Whom, and for What?
Peter Wilkins and David Gilchrist

5 Achieving Results for Private Actors in Africa
Per oyvind Bastoe and Elizabeth M. White

6 The Rise of Indigenous African Foundations/ Philanthropies and their Development Impact
Andrew O. Asibey

7 How Accountable Are Charitable Organizations: An Empirical Study of International Children's Aid Organizations
David Kirsch and Robert Schwartz

8 The Provision of Public Goods and Services by Socially Oriented Entrepreneurs: Experiences of Indian Health Care
Andrew Gray and Rosalind Miller

9 Social Impact Bonds: The Role of Evaluation
David Gilchrist and Peter Wilkins

10 Being Good, but Doing Good?: The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation's Role in the Provision of Safe Water Supply in Africa
R. Pablo Guerrero O.

11 Reframing "Doing Good": A Canadian Case Study
Pearl Eliadis

Part III: Conclusions

12 Conclusions
Donald Lemaire

Contributors

Index

O autorze

R. Pablo Guerrero O. is the Network Director of the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency, a multi-stakeholder action network to advance fiscal transparency, public participation and accountability in countries around the world. He was a founding Commissioner of the Federal Institute for Access to Information & Data Protection in Mexico (2002-2009), where he subsequently was the Secretary General (2013-14). Between 2009 and 2013, he was the manager of the Mentoring Governments for Transparency Program at the International Budget Partnership. Before 2003, he was a university professor at the CIDE (Center for Research & Teaching in Economics) in Mexico (1994-2003) specialized in public administration reform for accountability, anticorruption and fiscal transparency. He started his career as news reporter and correspondent in Washington & Paris, where he studied master and PhD programs in public policy (SAIS-Johns Hopkins University and Sciences-Po).