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...
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 ...
* The personal stories in this book, one of the outcomes of the original project, show that these feminists are 'tempered radicals' seeking a succession of small wins that cumulatively over time they hope may reduce inequity and promote social justice.
* The authors hope that there will be greater understanding from those on the -outside-, enabling more effective alliances to be built between feminists in different spaces, to foster greater change within international development bureaucracies and beyond.
Every day, in international development organizations feminists...
* The personal stories in this book, one of the outcomes of the original project, show that these feminists are 'tempered radicals' seeking a successi...
