“Tropical Allsorts”: The Transnational Flavor of British Development Policies in Africa

Riley, Charlotte Lydia

doi:10.1353/jwh.2016.0065

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“…A growing body of work has demonstrated that in the colonial period, some British INGOs that still operate today were guilty of collusion with the British imperial government, and thereby helped to prop up colonial regimes (Pringle, 2017;Baughan, 2020). Between 1960 and1979, when INGOs first began to be recognised as a distinct form of organisation (Kellow and Murphy-Gregory, 2018), INGO activities were shaped more by this colonial legacy than by ideas of development as a human right (Riley, 2016) or as expansions in freedoms (Sen, 1999).…”

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Epistolizing accountability: a critical exploration of INGO annual report leaders' letters

Abnett¹

2023

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PurposeThis paper explores how INGOs communicate their activities and achievements. In doing so, the study seeks to increase our understanding of INGOs' accountability practices.Design/methodology/approachThis paper uses thematic analysis to analyse 90 ‘leaders’ letters' (the letters that many charities include at the beginning of their Annual Reports and Accounts), published by 39 INGOs between 2015 and 2018.FindingsThis paper argues that within the Annual Report letters under consideration, INGOs' accountability practices focus on quantitative, process-driven, output reporting. In doing so, it is the actions and agency of INGOs that are primarily emphasised. INGO constituents are largely excluded from representation. Donors are presented only as contributors of financial capital. Drawing on field theory, the paper argues that this representational practice means INGO constituents are almost irrelevant to INGOs' representational and accountability communication practices.Originality/valueThis paper is indebted to previous important work and, building on such scholarship, seeks to contribute to the ongoing conversation about INGO accountability. While reinforcing some prior knowledge, the findings here also differ in the understanding of how donors are portrayed. The paper extends previous analyses by using field theory to show that the INGO field as considered here is a space in which representations of accountability are based on organisational and transactional factors, and does not value the humanity of INGOs' constituents. This connects to operations of power, between donors, INGOs, and constituents, and reinforces inequitable power within the development system.

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Epistolizing accountability: a critical exploration of INGO annual report leaders' letters

Abnett¹

2023

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Competitive Cooperation and Public Health: VD Control in the British Colony of Trinidad and Tobago During WWII

Clarke

2020

The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

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Official British Aid Policy, External Economic Relations, and Development, 1947-1974: Contingent Continuities from Empire to Post-Empire

Krozewski

2023

The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

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“Tropical Allsorts”: The Transnational Flavor of British Development Policies in Africa

Cited by 5 publications

References 19 publications

Epistolizing accountability: a critical exploration of INGO annual report leaders' letters

Epistolizing accountability: a critical exploration of INGO annual report leaders' letters

Competitive Cooperation and Public Health: VD Control in the British Colony of Trinidad and Tobago During WWII

Official British Aid Policy, External Economic Relations, and Development, 1947-1974: Contingent Continuities from Empire to Post-Empire

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