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Mobile Professional Voluntarism and International Development [electronic resource] : Killing Me Softly? / by Helen Louise Ackers, James Ackers-Johnson.
By: Ackers, Helen Louise [author.].
Contributor(s): Ackers-Johnson, James [author.] | SpringerLink (Online service).
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TextPublisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2017Description: XV, 173 p. 13 illus., 11 illus. in color. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781137558336.Subject(s): Political science | Comparative politics | Africa -- Politics and government | Great Britain -- Politics and government | International organization | Economic development | Social change | Political Science and International Relations | Comparative Politics | African Politics | Development Theory | Development and Social Change | British Politics | International OrganizationAdditional physical formats: Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification: 320 Online resources: Click here to access online
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Springer eBooksSummary: This book is open access under a CC BY license. This book explores the impact that professional volunteers have on the low resource countries they choose to spend time in. Whilst individual volunteering may be of immediate benefit to individual patients, this intervention may have detrimental effects on local health systems; distorting labour markets, accentuating dependencies and creating opportunities for corruption. Improved volunteer deployment may avoid these risks and present opportunities for sustainable systems change. The empirical research presented in this book stems from a specific volunteering intervention funded by the Tropical Health Education Trust and focused on improving maternal and newborn health in Uganda. However, important opportunities exist for policy transfer to other contexts.
1. Mobile Professional Voluntarism and International Development 'Aid' -- 2. 'First Do No Harm': Professional Volunteers as Knowledge Intermediaries -- 3. Fetishizing and Commodifying 'Training'? -- 4. Can (Imported) Knowledge Change Systems? Understanding the Dynamics of Behaviour Change -- 5. Iterative Learning: 'Knowledge for Change'?.
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1. Mobile Professional Voluntarism and International Development 'Aid' -- 2. 'First Do No Harm': Professional Volunteers as Knowledge Intermediaries -- 3. Fetishizing and Commodifying 'Training'? -- 4. Can (Imported) Knowledge Change Systems? Understanding the Dynamics of Behaviour Change -- 5. Iterative Learning: 'Knowledge for Change'?.
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This book is open access under a CC BY license. This book explores the impact that professional volunteers have on the low resource countries they choose to spend time in. Whilst individual volunteering may be of immediate benefit to individual patients, this intervention may have detrimental effects on local health systems; distorting labour markets, accentuating dependencies and creating opportunities for corruption. Improved volunteer deployment may avoid these risks and present opportunities for sustainable systems change. The empirical research presented in this book stems from a specific volunteering intervention funded by the Tropical Health Education Trust and focused on improving maternal and newborn health in Uganda. However, important opportunities exist for policy transfer to other contexts.