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Humanitarian NGO-networks: Identifying powerful political actors in an international policy field

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Humanitarian assistance is a growing policy-field, where the humanitarian nongovernmental actors gained a new, politically influential role. These actors have established networks in order to increase and facilitate cooperation and coordination mechanisms among them. This study identifies a number of humanitarian NGO-networks which actively participate in humanitarian policy decision-making processes. In order to identify the common motives and (political) interests of humanitarian NGO-networks a cross-section of internationally active humanitarian NGOs is identified. A typology of international humanitarian NGOs is starting with an analysis of German humanitarian NGOs. The analysis of the humanitarian networks shows that contrary to the often propagated cooperation between Northern and Southern non-governmental actors this is actually not realized at the network level. There, NGOs of the industrialized West, i.e. from the donor countries, are the almost exclusive participants in the humanitarian decision-making process.

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  • Topçu, Yasemin, 1999. "Humanitarian NGO-networks: Identifying powerful political actors in an international policy field," Discussion Papers, Research Group International Politics P 99-302, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:wzbipo:p99302
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