Mobile Professional Voluntarism and International Development
Killing Me Softly?
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Beschreibung
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.
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.
Analyzes aid by focusing on human giving through donations of embodied knowledge, i.e. volunteer time and expertise, rather than financial instruments Presents direct evidence from managing and evaluating the Sustainable Volunteering Project, which has has deployed over 40 UK volunteers across the Ugandan Maternal and Newborn Hub Offers valuable policy recommendations aimed at volunteer deployment agencies in the UK and beyond
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Helen Louise Ackers
Themen in »Mobile Professional Voluntarism and International Development«
Professional Volunteerism International Development Mobile Professional Volunteerism International Development Aid Knowledge Intermediaries Training Imported Knowledge Behaviour Change Iterative Learning Sustainable Volunteering development theory British Politics