AOC: Transnational NGOs as Agents of Change: Towards Understanding Their Governance, Leadership and Effectiveness

AOC：跨国非政府组织作为变革的推动者：了解其治理、领导力和有效性

• 批准号: 0527679
• 负责人: Margaret Hermann
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Syracuse University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-10-15 至 2008-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0527679&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: AOC; Transnational; NGOs; Agents; Change

SBE- 0527679Margaret HermannSyracuse University Globalization, global market integration, migration, and democratization have unleashed cross-national challenges and opportunities unimaginable a few decades ago. Transnational non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are an increasingly important "organizational resource" for helping people manage these concerns focusing as they do on such global issues as poverty alleviation, refugee flows, human rights, fair trade, environmental degradation, and broadening the participation of underrepresented citizens (e.g., women, disabled). In tackling these problems, transnational NGOs have exhibited a clear ability to foster collaboration among the various actors involved in global governance, but they have also contributed at times to increasing the level of conflict, depending on their mission, style, and the strategies they have employed. While the growing role that transnational NGOs play in globalization and democratization has come under increasing study, the factors contributing to their organizational effectiveness-or relative ineffectiveness--remain under investigated. This project studies what transnational NGOs are-how they are organized and how governance and leadership choices influence their effectiveness as agents of change. The project will complete a large-scale, systematic interview study of the leadership of such organizations at both the regional and international levels. The focus is on creating indicators and baseline data for scholars and the NGO community to use in understanding how such organizations are evolving, the nature of their leadership, their funding strategies, how they perceive issues of transparency and accountability, the ways in which they evaluate their organizations' impacts, the challenges they experience in working along side governments and international organizations, and the effects that they believe governments and international organizations are having on the nature of their activities. Most interview studies to date have been limited in scope and have often chosen to focus on examining a particular case where transnational NGOs have played a significant role. Moreover, the research has generally taken a particular theoretical perspective and not explored, as is done here, the conjunction between the various ways of viewing how transnational NGOs work as well as the conditions under which they may be more or less effective. The responses from the interviews will be converted into a database--the first of its kind on transnational NGOs--that provides the basis on which future studies can build. Broader Impact. This project furthers research, education, and practice regarding transnational NGOs. The project will develop a set of materials that can be used in building a curriculum for professional and doctoral students interested in transnational public management. Analyses of the indicators that are developed, the data base, and the transcripts of the interviews provide the basis for a set of training modules around such themes as impact assessment, building networks, engaging in transparency, and how to influence governments and international organizations. Data from the interviews will be compiled will be developed in a publicly available database, the first of its kind on transnational NGOs.

全球化，全球市场一体化，移民和民主化已经释放了几十年前无法想象的跨国挑战和机遇。跨国非政府组织是一种日益重要的“组织资源”，帮助人们处理这些问题，重点是减轻贫困、难民流动、人权、公平贸易、环境退化和扩大代表性不足的公民的参与等全球性问题（例如，妇女、残疾人）。在解决这些问题时，跨国非政府组织显然有能力促进参与全球治理的各种行为者之间的合作，但有时也会加剧冲突，这取决于它们的使命、风格和所采用的战略。虽然跨国非政府组织在全球化和民主化中发挥的作用越来越大，但对其组织有效性或相对无效性的影响因素仍在调查之中。这个项目研究什么是跨国非政府组织，他们是如何组织的，以及如何治理和领导的选择影响他们的有效性，作为变革的代理人。该项目将完成对区域和国际两级这类组织领导人的大规模、系统访谈研究。重点是为学者和非政府组织社区创建指标和基线数据，用于了解这些组织如何演变，其领导的性质，其供资战略，他们如何看待透明度和问责制问题，他们评估其组织影响的方式，他们在与政府和国际组织合作时遇到的挑战，以及他们认为政府和国际组织对其活动性质的影响。迄今为止，大多数访谈研究的范围有限，往往选择集中审查跨国非政府组织发挥重要作用的特定案例。此外，研究一般采取了一种特定的理论视角，而不是像这里所做的那样，探讨看待跨国非政府组织如何工作的各种方式之间的联系，以及它们可能或多或少有效的条件。访谈的答复将被转换成一个数据库-这是第一个关于跨国非政府组织的数据库-为今后的研究奠定基础。更广泛的影响。该项目促进了有关跨国非政府组织的研究、教育和实践。该项目将编制一套材料，用于为对跨国公共管理感兴趣的专业学生和博士生编制课程。对制定的指标、数据库和访谈记录的分析为围绕影响评估、建立网络、参与透明度以及如何影响政府和国际组织等主题的一套培训模块提供了基础。 访谈数据将汇编成一个公开数据库，这是第一个关于跨国非政府组织的数据库。