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An international NGO representative in Colombia: reflections from practice

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  • Rosemary McGee

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Certain contexts render particularly challenging the disjunctures and discontinuities between international NGO (INGO) headquarters and in-country operations, as this Christian Aid case demonstrates. Torn loyalties result when seeking to discern how best to work with partners in a human-rights crisis in a middle-income country. Navigating these challenges requires a critical interrogation and radical practice of partnership. With many INGOs partially or wholly decentralising operations, and in anomalous and complex INGO programme contexts like this, it is vital to analyse the disjunctures and to support in-country staff to respond creatively to them, to do justice to programme potential and partnership principles.

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  • Rosemary McGee, 2010. "An international NGO representative in Colombia: reflections from practice," Development in Practice, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 20(6), pages 636-648, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cdipxx:v:20:y:2010:i:6:p:636-648
    DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2010.491527
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