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The role of Evangelical NGOs in International Development. A comparative case study of Kenya and Uganda

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  • Katharina Hofer

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This paper examines the public role of a new type of Christian mission in sub-Saharan Africa: evangelical Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs). Since the early 1980s, NGOs have played an ever more prominent role in development co-operation. Yet within the non-governmental sector, faith-based organisations now seem to excel secular organisations, both in number and budget. Their growing recognition can be ex-plained in terms of their expanding international networks and well-established local alli-ances, as well as their steady supply in private funding and voluntary work force. Faith-based NGOs, it will be argued, represent a vital component in the globally expanding evangelical network between the northern and southern hemispheres: By helping to ad-vance church-planting campaigns in sub-Saharan Africa, faith-based NGOs broaden the international support bases for conservative Christian groups in North America. In the fall of 2001, President George W. Bush approved a new government programme that aims at expanding the share of religious organisation in the domestic and international welfare sectors. This paper examines the link between foreign missionary interventions and the privatisation of public services with reference to the education sector in Kenya and Uganda, and assesses the political implications of these developments.

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  • Katharina Hofer, 2003. "The role of Evangelical NGOs in International Development. A comparative case study of Kenya and Uganda," Africa Spectrum, Institute of African Affairs, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg, vol. 38(3), pages 375-398.
    • Handle: RePEc:gig:afjour:v:38:y:2003:i:3:p:375-398
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