Justifying development financing of small NGOs: impact evidence, political expedience and the case of the UK Civil Society Challenge Fund
Justifying development financing of small NGOs: impact evidence, political expedience and the case of the UK Civil Society Challenge Fund
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证明小型非政府组织发展融资的合理性:影响证据、政治权宜之计和英国公民社会挑战基金的案例
DOI:
10.1080/19439342.2016.1150317
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发表时间:
2016
影响因子:
0.9
通讯作者:
Myriam Telford
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作者:
J. Copestake;Anne;Myriam Telford
We review government funding of small NGOs as a mechanism to promote international development, taking the UK Civil Society Challenge Fund (CSCF) as a case study. Within a broad institutional economics perspective, we contrast two possible justifications for such support – evidence of positive impact and political expedience. Qualitative research suggests that empirical evidence of the positive impact of NGO actions funded through CSCF was relatively weak. Political expedience helps to explain why this was tolerated. The failure to generate better impact evidence can also be attributed to the lack of consensus about how to do so more rigorously, combined with a willingness to give small NGOs the benefit of the doubt in the absence of credible negative evidence of impact.
影响因子:
2.4
作者:
Copestake J
通讯作者:
Copestake J