In the Shadow of Good Governance

Anders, Gerhard

doi:10.1163/ej.9789004179820.i-168

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“…This does not imply that work is not compensated with cash or other benefits, material or otherwise, but rather that a salary is not paid. The idea of salary implies an ongoing relationship between employee and employer, associated with long-term and substantial benefits such as paid leave, end of service payments, and pensions, in addition to a wage (Anders 2009; Miller 2006; Rizzo & Wuyts 2013). Therefore, even where volunteers derive some payment for their work, occasionally amounting to the equivalent of a monthly salary, they are likely to maintain that they do not receive a salary and are therefore volunteering (Green 2012; Olivier de Sardan 2009).…”

Section: Volunteers and Civil Society In Tanzaniamentioning

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At the Service of Community Development: The Professionalization of Volunteer Work in Kenya and Tanzania

Brown¹,

Green²

2015

Afr. stud. rev.

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The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Abstract: This article explores the changing nature of the "volunteer" as an official role within health and development interventions in East Africa. Contemporary development interventions require the engagement of volunteers to act as links between project and community. This role is increasingly professionalized within development architectures with implications for the kinds of people who can engage in volunteering opportunities. Volunteers in development interventions are likely to be drawn from public sector staff and from educated youth seeking access to positions of paid employment. Volunteering as a formal status within the organization of development programs is recognized as a kind of professional work by those seeking to engage with development organizations. Volunteers perform important work in linking development programs with beneficiaries. At the same time, volunteering provides opportunities for personal transformation.

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Section: Volunteers and Civil Society In Tanzaniamentioning

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At the Service of Community Development: The Professionalization of Volunteer Work in Kenya and Tanzania

Brown¹,

Green²

2015

Afr. stud. rev.

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“…In Malawi, the growth of corruption is a relatively recent phenomenon that has been linked to the introduction of multiparty representative democracy and the liberalisation of the economy during the mid-1990s (Anders 2010). The need for campaign funds and the weakening discipline of government employees who exploited the newly available economic opportunities have fuelled the increase in corrupt practices (Anders 2010: 124–5). An important influence on the spread of political corruption in particular has been the weak regulatory framework for political party financing, as Dulani (2019) shows.…”

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Corruption and the impact of law enforcement: insights from a mixed-methods study in Malawi

2020

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The article argues that the impact of law enforcement efforts against corruption deserves more scholarly attention. Drawing on a mixed-methods study from Malawi in southern Africa, where a large-scale law enforcement operation has been investigating and prosecuting those involved in a 2013 corruption scandal known as ‘Cashgate’, the article explores the potential for corruption deterrence from the perspective of government officials in the Malawi civil service. Malawi provides a challenging environment for deterrence due to limited state capacity, weak law enforcement agencies and widespread corruption. Nonetheless, the research findings show that Malawian government officials perceive prosecutions and convictions to deter corruption, both with regards to the law enforcement response to Cashgate specifically and law enforcement efforts in general. The findings from Malawi suggest that law enforcement and criminal justice have the potential to make an important contribution to anti-corruption strategies in Africa and the Global South at large.

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“…For example, Simmons & Shiffman [ 44 ] mention the need for a "major change in bureaucratic culture", but say nothing about the empirical content of this bureaucratic culture. While the knowledge gap concerning the daily functioning of African bureaucratic cultures have been tackled recently [ 45 , 46 ], it has not been so much the case in the health domain (the analysis of organisational issues being nevertheless a first step forward [ 47 , 48 ]). This question constitutes a major challenge for any scaling up of a local experiment and for any public policies relating to health in general.…”

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Local sustainability and scaling up for user fee exemptions: medical NGOs vis-à-vis health systems

Sardan

Diarra

Koné

et al. 2015

BMC Health Serv Res

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Free healthcare obviously works when a partner from abroad supplies a health centre or a health district with medicines and funding on a regular basis, provides medical, administrative and managerial training, and gives incentive bonuses and daily subsistence allowances to staff. The experiments by three international NGO in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have all been success stories. But withdrawing NGO support means that health centres that have enjoyed a time of plenty under NGO management will return to the fold of health centres run by the state in its present condition and the health system in its present condition, with the everyday consequences of late reimbursements and stock shortages. The local support given by international NGOs has more often than not an effect of triggering an addiction to aid instead of inducing local sustainability without infusion. In the same way, scaling up to the entire country a local pilot experiment conducted under an NGO involves its insertion into a national bureaucratic machine with its multiple levels, all of which are potential bottlenecks. Only experiments carried out under the "ordinary" management of the state are capable of laying bare the problems associated with this process. Without reformers 'on the inside' (within the health system itself and among health workers), no real reform of the health system induced by reformers 'from the outside' can succeed.The problems relating to the sustainability of public policies in Africa, especially when the policies benefit from development aid, in the area of health among others, are familiar to researchers and policy-makers. However, as far as user fee exemptions are concerned, debates about these problems have extended well beyond the narrow circle of experts and into the public domain in the countries concerned. Throughout our research, we have observed that the sustainability of free healthcare policies is a major concern of all the actors (health workers, users, managers and senior administrative staff), and an issue that has generated widespread scepticism, especially in Mali and Niger [1,2]. There is general unease about the state's ability to reimburse health centres and to provide essential inputs. The scepticism is fuelled by a two-fold negative experience: decades of incoherent public policies at national level, plagued by bad management and uncertain funding, on the one hand; and the endless U-turns by donors, the double binds of frequent contradictions in their funding policies and the short-term nature of the programmes they enact, on the other [3].The first years of exemption policies, which were beset by late reimbursements and more or less chronic stock shortages, only added to the scepticism. The disquiet appears to be justified: despite their positive impact in terms of health centre attendance, without funding guaranteed over time, efficient management, secure supply channels and motivated staff, free healthcare policies fall foul of a host of adverse effects at every level of the health pyramid.

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In the Shadow of Good Governance

Cited by 65 publications

References 1 publication

At the Service of Community Development: The Professionalization of Volunteer Work in Kenya and Tanzania

At the Service of Community Development: The Professionalization of Volunteer Work in Kenya and Tanzania

Corruption and the impact of law enforcement: insights from a mixed-methods study in Malawi

Local sustainability and scaling up for user fee exemptions: medical NGOs vis-à-vis health systems

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