The Good Project
The Good Project
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好项目
DOI：
10.7208/chicago/9780226131535.001.0001
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发表时间：
2014
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Monika Krause
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作者：
Monika Krause
非政府组织的宗旨是拯救生命，减轻痛苦，满足人类的基本需求。他们不分种族、民族、性别或宗教，致力于跨越国界为人们服务，在地震、海啸、战争和流行病期间提供至关重要的帮助。但是，有这么多受灾地区需要援助，这些组织如何决定去哪里，谁得到援助？在《好项目》（The Good Project）一书中，莫妮卡·克劳斯（Monika Krause）深入研究了非政府组织复杂的决策过程，揭示了一个基本事实：救援机构可能是在努力帮助人们，但实际上，他们的主要工作重点是生产项目。各机构向主要机构捐助者出售项目，在此过程中，项目及其受益者成为商品。为了保证一个成功的项目，组织被激励去帮助那些容易帮助的人，而那些最难帮助的人通常根本得不到帮助。世界上最贫穷的国家被迫相互竞争成为项目，作为交换，他们为援助机构和捐助国政府提供合法性。《好计划》肯定会引起争议，但它提供了一个具有挑衅性的新视角，来研究非政府组织在地方和全球层面上的成败。
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.