NGOization of Islamic Charity: Claiming Legitimacy in Changing Institutional Contexts

Borchgrevink, Kaja

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“…Wilkinson et al Journal of International Humanitarian Action (2022) 7:4 However, some LFA interviewees stated that BtG needed to be careful not to erode the identity of LFAs, through "NGO-isation". This concern is also reflected in wider literature, where research has brought to light the tensions with the NGO-isation of local actors and the loss of local capacity and knowledge through the professionalisation towards international standards (Borchgrevink 2017;Al-Karib 2018;Wilkinson et al 2019). While the overall impact of the humanitarian skills training offered to LFAs as part of BtG has been to upskill and professionalise the LFAs, and this reflection on NGO-isation does not mean to undercut the impact of the training, it does however underline an overall tension in humanitarian localisation.…”

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Faith in localisation? The experiences of local faith actors engaging with the international humanitarian system in South Sudan

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Int J Humanitarian Action

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Localisation, as it aims to shift power in the humanitarian system, will involve the increased inclusion of local faith actors, those national and local faith-affiliated groups and organisations that are often first, and last, responders in crises and have been responding in humanitarian contexts for many years, but often in parallel to humanitarian coordination mechanisms. In primary research in South Sudan with local faith actors and international humanitarian actors, this article aims to examine the inroads and barriers to local faith actor involvement in the humanitarian system and the realisation of localisation with local actors such as these. The research is based on an ethnographic study in which researchers were imbedded in a humanitarian project that aimed to help bridge divides between local faith actors and the international humanitarian system. The findings are based on one-on-one and group interviews with 89 participants from a range of international and local, and faith and secular, organisations. Findings indicate that local faith actors are active in responding to crises and want to be linked to the humanitarian system, but they feel distanced from it and pigeonholed as local faith actors. Formalisation through the appropriate registration systems and then training and networking with the humanitarian system helped them build legitimacy and feel confident to participate in humanitarian coordination. International humanitarian actors can help bridge barriers by understanding and connecting with the local faith actors and challenging their own assumptions about who local faith actors are.

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Faith in localisation? The experiences of local faith actors engaging with the international humanitarian system in South Sudan

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“…Like many national NGOs in Pakistan, the CWS and Sungi are characterised by their reliance on international funding, employment of professional staff, and active use of discourses and practices associated with mainstream development and humanitarian aid (Borchgrevink, 2017a). Few NGOs in Pakistan are purely humanitarian organisations: most engage in humanitarian work when the need arises and when they are funded to do so 11 .…”

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“…Humanitarian discourse and practices encompass diverse normative frameworks, which aid workers and organisations relate to and make use of when making claims to legitimacy as aid providers (Lister, 2003; Borchgrevink, 2017a). While both Islam and human rights represent normative traditions that are codified in authoritative texts, each is interpreted and given meaning by social actors through their everyday practices.…”

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Negotiating rights and faith: a study of rights‐based approaches to humanitarian action in Pakistan

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2022

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‘Rights‐based approaches’ (RBAs) have become a well‐established concept over the past two decades, informing the work of diverse actors involved in development and humanitarian aid. Faith‐based organisations have increasingly embraced the RBA, although not without contestation. Drawing on new qualitative data from Pakistan, this paper examines how ‘global’ RBA norms are operationalised in ‘local’ contexts characterised by great normative diversity and identifies three dominant normative frameworks used by non‐governmental organisations in the translation of RBAs: humanitarian standards; citizens' rights; and Islamic principles. It utilises a case study of RBAs in Pakistan and reveals the significance of religion and religious entities in the translation of rights. From this example, the paper makes a conceptual distinction between ‘instrumental’ and ‘substantial’ modes of engagement, a framing that allows for a more detailed analysis of how humanitarian actors deal with religion and rights than what is often found in studies of humanitarian action.

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“…B. Borchgrevink 2017;Paternotte 2016). In der Ungleichheitsforschung ist die bislang unbeachtete Rolle von Organisationen von Tomaskovic-Devey und Avent-Holt (2019) herausgearbeitet worden.…”

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Organizational Society Revisited: from Archetype to New Forms of Organization

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ZusammenfassungWährend die Organisationssoziologie vornehmlich auf die Analyse von Organisationen und zwischenorganisatorischen Arrangements konzentriert ist, finden wir in verschiedenen anderen Teilgebieten der Soziologie die Einschätzung, dass die Rolle von Organisationen hinsichtlich ihrer gesellschaftlichen Effekte oftmals nur unzureichend reflektiert wird. Dieser Beitrag zielt darauf ab, konzeptionelle Voraussetzungen zur Überwindung dieser Situation zu schaffen. In Abschn. 2 wird auf das Konzept der Organisationsgesellschaft rekurriert, so wie es in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts entwickelt worden ist. Als gemeinsames Problem dieser Forschungsbeiträge wird identifiziert, dass sie sich auf eine bestimmte – hier als Archetyp bezeichnete – Organisationsform beziehen, deren Dominanz im 21. Jahrhundert fragwürdig geworden ist. In Abschn. 3 wird deshalb vorgeschlagen, neue Organisationsformen einzubeziehen. Insbesondere wird auf Hyper-Organisation, partielle Organisation und Plattform-Organisation eingegangen. Es werden zwei Schwachpunkte dieser Konzepte identifiziert: Erstens suggerieren die entsprechenden Beiträge eine Ersetzung des Archetyps und vernachlässigen zudem andere neuartige Organisationsformen; zweitens beziehen sie gesellschaftliche Voraussetzungen und Folgen nur selektiv ein. Abschließend werden Perspektiven zur Überwindung dieser gravierenden Schwachstellen diskutiert.

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NGOization of Islamic Charity: Claiming Legitimacy in Changing Institutional Contexts

Cited by 15 publications

References 39 publications

Faith in localisation? The experiences of local faith actors engaging with the international humanitarian system in South Sudan

Faith in localisation? The experiences of local faith actors engaging with the international humanitarian system in South Sudan

Negotiating rights and faith: a study of rights‐based approaches to humanitarian action in Pakistan

Organizational Society Revisited: from Archetype to New Forms of Organization

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