The Good Project: Humanitarian Relief NGOs and the Fragmentation of Reason
The Good Project: Humanitarian Relief NGOs and the Fragmentation of Reason
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好项目：人道主义救援非政府组织与理性的碎片化
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2014
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Monika Krause
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作者：
Monika Krause
非政府组织开始拯救生命，减轻痛苦，满足人类的基本需求。他们致力于跨越国界，不分种族、民族、性别或宗教为人们提供服务，并在地震、海啸、战争和流行病期间提供重要帮助。但是，有这么多需要援助的地区，这些组织如何决定去哪里，谁得到援助？
在《好项目》一书中，莫妮卡·克劳斯深入探讨了非政府组织决策过程的复杂性，并揭示了一个基本事实：救援机构可能试图帮助人们，但实际上，他们工作的主要重点是制定项目。各机构将项目出售给主要的机构捐助者，在此过程中，项目及其受益者成为商品。为了保证项目的成功，鼓励组织帮助那些容易帮助的人，而那些最难帮助的人往往得不到任何帮助。世界上最贫穷的国家被迫相互竞争，以成为项目，作为交换，它们为援助机构和捐助国政府提供了合法性。肯定是有争议的，好项目提供了一个挑衅性的新视角，非政府组织如何成功和失败的地方和全球层面。
NGOs set out to save lives, relieve suffering, and service basic human needs. They are committed to serving people across national borders and without regard to race, ethnicity, gender, or religion, and they offer crucial help during earthquakes, tsunamis, wars, and pandemics. But with so many ailing areas in need of assistance, how do these organizations decide where to go—and who gets the aid?
In The Good Project, Monika Krause dives into the intricacies of the decision-making process at NGOs and uncovers a basic truth: It may be the case that relief agencies try to help people but, in practical terms, the main focus of their work is to produce projects. Agencies sell projects to key institutional donors, and in the process the project and its beneficiaries become commodities. In an effort to guarantee a successful project, organizations are incentivized to help those who are easy to help, while those who are hardest to help often receive no assistance at all. The poorest of the world are made to compete against each other to become projects—and in exchange they offer legitimacy to aid agencies and donor governments. Sure to be controversial, The Good Project offers a provocative new perspective on how NGOs succeed and fail on a local and global level.