Nongovernmental Organizations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23644196 |
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| Authors | Ramya Ramanath (0000-0002-3432-3364, DePaul University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 1-9 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-30 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781118663202.wberen573 |
| OpenAlex | W4255222659 |
| ISBN | 9781118663202 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
This entry reviews the role and performance of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that seek to serve as key agents in transmitting development to racially and ethnically marginalized populations. It draws on a wide variety of scholarly literature and finds that there are three sets of interrelated global trends that influence NGO responsibility and performance: increasing democratization, globalization and transnationalism, and rising ethnonationalism. The entry describes the three processes and, simultaneously, examines the successes and challenges of NGOs in addressing the interests of the socially excluded. Nongovernmental organizations have undoubtedly played an important role in creating venues for a more just, equitable, and democratic world. However, sustained NGO effectiveness is found to hinge, at least in part, on their ability and willingness to learn from the effects of their programming on the racial and ethnic relations that permeate the daily lives of their intended beneficiaries.
Democracy · Democratization · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnic group · Globalization · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Transnationalism · Variety (cybernetics) · International Development and Aid · Law · Religion, Society, and Development · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
Blood and belonging
The Nonprofit sector
Awareness and Action
A new apartheid? The spatial implications of fear of crime in Cape Town, South Africa
Unexpected negative outcomes of community participation in low-cost housing projects in South Africa
Selling Civil Society
Indigenous Inclusion/Black Exclusion
NGOs, Corporations and Security Transformation in Africa
NGOs
Humanitarian war
The New Afro-Cuban Cultural Movement and the Debate on Race in Contemporary Cuba
| Highly cited | No |
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