Who cares? The personal and professional problems of NGO fieldworkers in Bangladesh

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ID3886385
AuthorsMokbul Morshed Ahmad (0000-0002-4003-0920, corresponding author)
Year2002
Volume12
Issue2
Pages177-191
Publication date2002-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueDevelopment in Practice (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0961-4524 • E-ISSN: 1364-9213
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09614520220127694
OpenAlexW2063237364
LanguageEN
Citations received15
References cited7

This article highlights the personal and professional problems of NGO fieldworkers in Bangladesh. The paper draws on field research with the front-line workers of four NGOs, their clients, immediate superiors, and senior management. Fieldworkers face personal problems such as job insecurity, financial hardships, difficulties with accommodation, and family dislocation. These problems differ according to gender, marital status, and age. Professional problems include training, promotion, and transfer. In addition, fieldworkers face problems in their external relationships, including suspicion, resistance or lack of cooperation from religious leaders and local e ́lites, time and resource constraints, competition for clients, and eagerness of the intended beneficiaries simply to get access to financial or material benefits. It will be argued that the strengths of the fieldworkers of Southern NGOs have been largely unexplored and undervalued

Accommodation · Face (sociological concept) · Political science · Promotion (chess) · Public relations · Resistance (ecology) · Social science · Sociology · International Development and Aid · Law · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering · Psychology · Religion, Society, and Development

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