Sökning: "Marketization of Aid"
Hittade 5 uppsatser innehållade orden Marketization of Aid.
1. Climate Change Communication by Development NGOs : An Analysis of The Potential Role of Marketization
Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenSammanfattning : This thesis sets out to answer how development NGOs frame climate change in the wake of the Agenda 2030 and assess what factors might be at play in shaping the universal framing of climate change as emphasized in the SDGs. While there are several factors which might influence the framing of climate change used by NGOs, this study focuses on marketization as a potential explanatory factor. LÄS MER
2. Humanitarian Security in the Light of Financial Independence: Why funding structures are also a matter of security management
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenSammanfattning : Marketization of the humanitarian system and the financial independence is thought to have an impact on humanitarian organisations’ behavior. With an increased insecurity for aid-workers and thus investment in aid-worker security management, research on this matter is pressing. LÄS MER
3. A new profile for non-profit actors? : Tracing marketization in Médecins Sans Frontières
Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenSammanfattning : This thesis engages in and contributes to the current debate of marketization on the potential consequences of the seemingly increasing marketization of non-governmental organizations and the emerge of for-profit actors in humanitarian work, focusing on one of the biggest actors in humanitarian aid; Médecines Sans Frontières (MSF). By interviewing three highly positioned representatives from the organization, examining a report on the matter as well as MSF website several aspects of marketization identified in the literature were searched for, such as: market language/concepts, commercialization, private sector funding and professionalization. LÄS MER
4. Girls' Future is Girls' Future? : Tracing the Girl Effect in Plan International Sweden
Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenSammanfattning : This thesis sets out to answer if, and in that case how, the current development discourse, centring on instrumentalist arguments for gender equality and the “marketization” of aid, is reflected in Plan International Sweden’s campaign on the International Day of the Girl Child. The study draws upon critical feminist theories which stress that the instrumentalist approach, which scholars mean has become more common due to the marketization of aid, essentializes women and men in line with traditional ideas of femininity and masculinity. LÄS MER
5. Shopping for Change – the discourses of marketized nonprofit fundraising
Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för journalistik, medier och kommunikationSammanfattning : This thesis examines the articulation of marketized philanthropy within the discourse of nonprofit fundraising. The objective is to find out how fundraising works as a discursive practice - how is the world constructed, who and whom are participants in this world, and why should the presumed donor get involved? It does so from a critical approach, connecting the business of fundraising to theories of subpolitics, individualization, consumer power, and the argument that market logics serves a depoliticizing function within this context. LÄS MER
