Human Rights-Based Child Sponsorship

A Case Study of ActionAid

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12249682
AutoresJae-Eun Noh (0000-0001-9324-8192, autor correspondente)
Ano2018
Volume30
Fascículo6
Páginas1420-1432
Data de publicação2018-06-22
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoVoluntas Revista Internacional de Filosofia (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2179-3786 • E-ISSN: 1573-7888
EditoraSpringer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1007/s11266-018-0010-2
OpenAlexW2809222293
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas32

Many NGOs which focus on development have operated child sponsorship programs due to their effectiveness in raising funds. Existing studies offer a critique of child sponsorship as a de-humanizing marketing strategy and as a targeted service provision. Some NGOs have revised their child sponsorship by integrating it with a rights-based approach (RBA), which emerged rejecting the individual focus and disempowering process of development intervention. The objection of other RBA NGOs to child sponsorship leaves questions about whether child sponsorship can fit an RBA. The aim of the present study is to explore how child sponsorship is perceived and practiced in relation to an RBA in an NGO. The findings from a case study of ActionAid present how an RBA guides ActionAid’s child sponsorship to promote empowerment, campaigning, solidarity and alternatives. This study identifies the potential of an RBA to address problematic marketing and operational practices of child sponsorship as well as remaining issues. The complexity of NGO practices when aligning organizational practices with an RBA warrants further examination

Business · Empowerment · Focus group · Human rights · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Service (business · Service provider · Social marketing · Solidarity · Children's Rights and Participation · Law · Religion, Society, and Development · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development · Marketing