Thomas W D Davis
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1399367 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Thomas W D Davis |
| PRENOMES | Thomas W D |
| SOBRENOME | Davis |
| ASSINATURA | DAVIS T W D |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 5 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Reforming accountability in international NGOs
Home and field office staff disagreement often impedes international development NGOs (INGOs) from making their accountability systems more responsive to partner and community concerns. Drawing on a staff survey, and qualitative interviews across four country programmes, of a major INGO, three interlocking explanations for this disagreement are suggested: that staff perceive accountability practices differently because they place greater interpre…
Human Rights in Asia
Human Rights in Asia
The MDGs and the incomplete relationship between development and foreign aid
The literature on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is roughly divided into interest in political and economic exogenous shocks, analyses of longer term, structural impediments to meeting the MDGs by 2015, the appropriateness of the specific goals themselves to international development, and questioning the very use of a goals–targets–indicators approach to development and attempts to redirect debate towards more systemic political change. …
Foreign Aid in Australia's Relationship with the South
In identifying the determinants of Australia's foreign aid relationship with developing countries (sometimes labelled ‘the South’), this article examines the institutional history of official Australian development assistance since the Second World War. Several, often competing, narratives are delineated. These include: an ongoing questioning within the aid ‘policy community’, such as it is, of the purpose of foreign aid and the nature of its rel…
The Politics of Human Rights and Development
This article examines the ‘right to development’ and ‘rights-based approaches to development’, highlighting how each defines development and the degree to which they have been adopted by official donors in their policies and programs. The article then focuses on criticisms relating to justice, participation, empowerment and agency that uncover both the conceptual limitations of the rights–development nexus and the limitations of donor capacity to…
The MDGs and the incomplete relationship between development and foreign aid
The literature on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is roughly divided into interest in political and economic exogenous shocks, analyses of longer term, structural impediments to meeting the MDGs by 2015, the appropriateness of the specific goals themselves to international development, and questioning the very use of a goals–targets–indicators approach to development and attempts to redirect debate towards more systemic political change. …
Foreign Aid in Australia's Relationship with the South
In identifying the determinants of Australia's foreign aid relationship with developing countries (sometimes labelled ‘the South’), this article examines the institutional history of official Australian development assistance since the Second World War. Several, often competing, narratives are delineated. These include: an ongoing questioning within the aid ‘policy community’, such as it is, of the purpose of foreign aid and the nature of its rel…
The Politics of Human Rights and Development
This article examines the ‘right to development’ and ‘rights-based approaches to development’, highlighting how each defines development and the degree to which they have been adopted by official donors in their policies and programs. The article then focuses on criticisms relating to justice, participation, empowerment and agency that uncover both the conceptual limitations of the rights–development nexus and the limitations of donor capacity to…
Reforming accountability in international NGOs
Home and field office staff disagreement often impedes international development NGOs (INGOs) from making their accountability systems more responsive to partner and community concerns. Drawing on a staff survey, and qualitative interviews across four country programmes, of a major INGO, three interlocking explanations for this disagreement are suggested: that staff perceive accountability practices differently because they place greater interpre…
The Politics of Human Rights and Development
This article examines the ‘right to development’ and ‘rights-based approaches to development’, highlighting how each defines development and the degree to which they have been adopted by official donors in their policies and programs. The article then focuses on criticisms relating to justice, participation, empowerment and agency that uncover both the conceptual limitations of the rights–development nexus and the limitations of donor capacity to…
Human Rights in Asia
Human Rights in Asia
The MDGs and the incomplete relationship between development and foreign aid
The literature on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is roughly divided into interest in political and economic exogenous shocks, analyses of longer term, structural impediments to meeting the MDGs by 2015, the appropriateness of the specific goals themselves to international development, and questioning the very use of a goals–targets–indicators approach to development and attempts to redirect debate towards more systemic political change. …
Foreign Aid in Australia's Relationship with the South
In identifying the determinants of Australia's foreign aid relationship with developing countries (sometimes labelled ‘the South’), this article examines the institutional history of official Australian development assistance since the Second World War. Several, often competing, narratives are delineated. These include: an ongoing questioning within the aid ‘policy community’, such as it is, of the purpose of foreign aid and the nature of its rel…
Reforming accountability in international NGOs
Home and field office staff disagreement often impedes international development NGOs (INGOs) from making their accountability systems more responsive to partner and community concerns. Drawing on a staff survey, and qualitative interviews across four country programmes, of a major INGO, three interlocking explanations for this disagreement are suggested: that staff perceive accountability practices differently because they place greater interpre…
Political science (5 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Politics (4 obras) · Human Rights and Development (3 obras) · International Development and Aid (3 obras) · Sociology (3 obras) · Accountability (2 obras) · Aid effectiveness (2 obras) · Developing country (2 obras) · Development aid (2 obras)