The legitimacy of Dutch do-it-yourself initiatives in Kwale County, Kenya

Contains fulltext : 207931.pdf (publisher's version ) (Open Access)Established development organisations face a long-standing legitimacy crisis for not living up to the expectations once set. Meanwhile, thousands of small-scale, voluntary development organisations - referred to as Private Development Initiatives (PDIs) - have joined the field of international development. In this article, I examine the legitimacy of their acts from a local government perspective based on an analysis of four dimensions of legitimacy: regulatory, pragmatic, normative and cognitive legitimacy. The study took place in May 2017 in the Kenyan coastal county of Kwale. A range of government officials were interviewed on how they perceive the interventions of international development organisations in general, and Dutch PDIs in particular, and on their cooperation with these development actors. The study shows that, although many of these PDIs operate in areas that fall under the responsibility of the local government, most of them have a rather limited cooperation with the local government, putting their legitimacy in the eyes of local government officials at stake.19 p

De anatomie van het PI. Resultaten van vijf jaar onderzoek naar particuliere initiatieven op het terrein van ontwikkelingssamenwerking

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Burgerbetrokkenheid bij internationale samenwerking: Lessen voor de participatiemaatschappij

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The life cycle of Private Initiatives. The reasons behind, and consequences of, ending a small development organization

Contains fulltext : 124305.pdf (publisher's version ) (Open Access)In recent years, the world of international development (aid) has become increasingly complex due to the emergence of a large number of new development actors. In fact, new actors enter the field of development every year but only few move out. In effect, there is no systematic insight in the reasons behind and consequences of stopping as a development organisation. This paper provides a first explorative insight in this matter by looking at a small number of Dutch Private Initiatives (PIs) that have recently ended their development work. The study shows that these PIs seldom end their activities as a development actor for a single reason. In addition we find that internal reasons (i.e., those referring to the PI itself) are substantially more important than external ones (i.e., those referring to their Southern partner or their specific project). Still, the idea that the activity or project they set out to support was finalised was presented as the major reason. Also with regard to the consequences of stopping as PI, internal effects are considered to be more important than external ones. Whereas most PIs comfort themselves by claiming that their project will also continue without them, many expressed strong emotional reactions themselves. This is in line with the idea that many PIs start their work because of close personal relationships with specific people in developing countries and sentiments about the suffering they saw when visiting ‘their’ developing country. Finally, in looking back these former PIs strongly emphasise what they have learned from their work; experiences that might be of assistance to all who want to walk in their footsteps. We conclude with showing these lessons

Is small beautiful? A sustainability study of development interventions co-financed by the Wild Geese Foundation

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Over het particulier initiatief en waarom we er (n)iets mee moeten

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Behind the pictures: Understanding private development initiatives

Contains fulltext : 126456.pdf (publisher's version ) (Open Access)Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 07 februari 2014Promotor : Ruben, R. Co-promotor : Schulpen, L.W.M.208 p

Burgers en gemeenten in internationale samenwerking: Een Belgisch-Nederlands onderonsje

Item does not contain fulltextOnze wereld is voortdurend in beweging, niet enkel letterlijk maar ook figuurlijk. Dat hebben we de voorbije jaren meer dan ooit gemerkt. Globalisering, migratie, klimaatverandering, financiële crisis – het zijn maar enkele van de vele relatief nieuwe tendensen die een immense impact hebben op onze samenleving. Dit maakt dat gemeentebesturen hun beleid inzake ontwikkelingssamenwerking op de korrel nemen en op actieve wijze gaan herbekijken.. Dit boek werd geschreven door een werkgroep van mensen uit de praktijk. Het is bedoeld om te inspireren, aan te zetten tot reflectie en het debat aan te zwengelen

Explaining monetary donations to international development organisations: A factorial survey approach

Contains fulltext : 119386.pdf (publisher's version ) (Closed access)This article investigates what type of international development organisations potential donors would prefer to donate to. We constructed 960 scenarios in which a fictive development organisation was described. The scenarios were randomly varied across eight characteristics of the organisation: size, familiarity, experience, religious character, number of different projects run by the organisation, number of countries in which the organisation is active, overhead costs and staff composition. A large representative sample of the Dutch population (N = 2,758) received six randomly allocated scenarios and had to decide if, and if so, how much they would donate to the depicted (fictive) organisation. Results demonstrate that donors have a preference for familiar organisations with several years of experience. Although donors have a strong aversion regarding overhead costs, we find that donors seem to value the capacities of paid staff members and are, to a certain extent, willing to pay a price for these. The ideal development organisation combines features typical of small(er) scale voluntary development organisations (e.g. mainly run by volunteers) and large(r) scale professional organisations (e.g. running development programmes in numerous countries).16 p