NGOs in Turkey: Accountability in humanitarian assistance

Internet NGOs: Legitimacy and Accountability

As the power and influence of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in international debates on social and moral matters increases, questions concerning their legitimacy and accountability become all the more challenging. Some starting points are given for a defensible account of the legitimacy and accountability of internationally operating NGOs. Special attention is given to the use of new inf...

Politics and the Effectiveness of Humanitarian NGOs in Civil Conflict

Is the ability of humanitarian Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) to effectively improve the health and welfare of aid recipients affected by the source of the organization’s funding? This paper examines the effectiveness of humanitarian NGOs as a function of their funding sources, with a particular focus on civil conflict. I argue that NGOs whose revenue depends on private individual contri...

Burma and the challenge of humanitarian assistance.

www.thelancet.com Vol 370 October 27, 2007 1465 the community are homogeneous. The authors also assume that their single rural site in South Africa is typical. Although models must be intuitively plausible and qualitatively accurate, model validation does not necessarily follow from a good fi t to the available data, because many complex models can fi t limited data quite well. Many people in t...

Blocking humanitarian assistance: a crime against humanity?

Governing catastrophes: security, health and humanitarian assistance

Recent catastrophes, and predictions of an increasing potential for more, have stimulated thinking about the best policy responses to these threats. This article explores how security concepts influence catastrophe governance. The article considers how globalization affects thinking about catastrophes and describes ways in which catastrophes have been conceptualized as governance challenges, su...