The book offers a critical insight into how the study of NGOs can be more theoretically grounded and methodologically creative. It is an essential resource for postgraduate students of Research Methods in Development Studies, as well as practitioners wanting to find out more about the sector.
This book offers a critical insight into how the study of NGOs can be more theoretically grounded and methodologically creative.
The role of NGOs in global development has been the focus of considerable research and scholarship for the last four decades. More recently, scholars and NGO practitioners have begun to explore their relationships and how research can better inform practice and vice versa. This book addresses questions arising from such research, including: how different theoretical perspectives can be applied to the study of NGOs; what kinds of data can be used when trying to better understand NGOs; and what methods can be used in studying NGOs. Rather than evaluating the impact of NGO work, this is a book about how researchers and practitioners can better understand what NGOs do and how they operate. Bringing together work from a range of NGO researchers working across diverse disciplines and at varied stages of their academic careers, the collection is supported by recent case studies in the field as well as ‘dilemma boxes’ and discussion questions in every chapter.
As such, Researching Development NGOs is an essential resource for postgraduate students of Research Methods in Development Studies, NGOs and Development Management as well as practitioners wanting to find out more about the sector.
1. Introduction: Researching development NGOs Susannah Pickering-Saqqa
PART 1 Working together
2. Working together: NGOs, academics, practitioners
and researchers Kathryn Kraft Dilemma Box 1: How to avoid unequal research
partnerships between NGOs and academics, UK Jennifer Eggert Dilemma Box 2:
The Re-education of a Fish and Chips Researcher, Somaliland Hamda Mohamed
Discussion Susannah Pickering-Saqqa PART 2 Working with theory
3.
Re-theorizing and Researching Non-Governmental Development Organisations
Jonathan Makuwira
4. Playing power games: Analysing a Chinese
non-governmental organisations practice in Mathare, Kenya Yi Wang
5. What
happened to domestic programmes? The intriguing case of Islamic Relief
Worldwide Susannah Pickering-Saqqa Dilemma Box 3: Fundraising for an NGO
working with youth prisoners, Brazil Cally Magalhães Dilemma Box 4: The role
of NGOs in Ethiopia Endalkachew Yaregal Discussion Susannah Pickering-Saqqa
PART 3 Working with data
6. A New Materialist approach for NGO research: The
NGO-research Assemblage Emma Jones
7. Promoting linguistic inclusivity in NGO
work Angela Crack
8. Using theatre as a data collection tool in menstrual
health research in rural India Meera Tiwari and Allan Brimicombe Dilemma Box
5: Volunteering and Sustainability at Otra Cosa Network, Peru Juany Murphy
Dilemma Box 6: Technologically mediated citizen-led welfarism in Nigeria
Boluwatife Ajibola Discussion PART 4 Working with Methods
9. Historical
Research of International NGOs and Global Development: Historiography,
Methods and Critical Discussion Andrew Jones
10. Unlocking perceptions of
civil society using photo elicitation: a case study from the Central African
Republic Sarah Thomas
11. Rethinking NGO activism in light of postcolonial
and decolonial feminist perspectives: evidence from sexual harassment
interventions in Bangladesh Arunima Kishore Das Dilemma Box 7: Relevance and
access challenges for students researching NGOs, Denmark Emma Munk Byrne
Dilemma Box 8: Research in NGOs: in house or external? India Swati Saxena
Discussion and Conclusions
Susannah Pickering-Saqqa is Senior Lecturer in International Development and NGO Management at the University of East London where she has taught since 2009. She previously worked for Uluda University (Turkey), the British Council (Bangladesh and Palestine), The Commonwealth Foundation, the Mayor of London and Muslim Aid. Her research and teaching interests include our changing understandings of development, the domestic programmes of INGOs, faith-based NGOs and the dynamic nature of NGO practice. She supports the work of the Mothers Union and PalMusic UK through their development committees.
