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Who cares? The personal and professional problems of NGO fieldworkers in Bangladesh

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  • Mokbul Morshed Ahmad

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This article highlights the personal and professional problems of NGO fieldworkers in Bangladesh. The paper draws on field research with the front-line workers of four NGOs, their clients, immediate superiors, and senior management. Fieldworkers face personal problems such as job insecurity, financial hardships, difficulties with accommodation, and family dislocation. These problems differ according to gender, marital status, and age. Professional problems include training, promotion, and transfer. In addition, fieldworkers face problems in their external relationships, including suspicion, resistance or lack of cooperation from religious leaders and local e´lites, time and resource constraints, competition for clients, and eagerness of the intended beneficiaries simply to get access to financial or material benefits. It will be argued that the strengths of the fieldworkers of Southern NGOs have been largely unexplored and undervalued.

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  • Mokbul Morshed Ahmad, 2002. "Who cares? The personal and professional problems of NGO fieldworkers in Bangladesh," Development in Practice, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 12(2), pages 177-191, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cdipxx:v:12:y:2002:i:2:p:177-191
    DOI: 10.1080/09614520220127694
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