The Credibility of Transnational NGOs : When Virtue is Not Enough.

The Credibility of Transnational NGOs : When Virtue is Not Enough.

This book evaluates the credibility of NGOs as they monitor and supplant the public and private sectors.

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Gourevitch, Peter A.
Other Authors: Lake, David A., Gross Stein, Janice
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012
Subjects:
Non-governmental organizations > Moral and ethical aspects.
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245 1 4 |a The Credibility of Transnational NGOs :  |b When Virtue is Not Enough. 
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500 |a Criticism of the timing of Kiva's loans, and the response. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Cover; The Credibility of Transnational NGOs; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: Beyond virtue: evaluating and enhancing the credibility of non-governmental organizations; NGOs, social change, and the need for credibility; Sources of credibility; Virtue: internal sources of credibility; Beyond virtue: external conditions for credibility; Common interests; Costly effort; Penalties for misrepresentation; External verification; Strategies for increasing credibility; Promoting bonds around shared values. 
505 8 |a Adopting autonomous governance structuresIncreasing transparency; Professionalizing; Integrating into the community of NGOs; Expending costly effort in other fields; Credible to whom? The multiple audiences for NGOs; Targets; Donors; The public; Other NGOs; External verifiers; Conclusion; PART I: Monitoring and NGOs; 2: Why believe international election monitors?; Democracy promotion and the rise of election observation; Credible monitors and election quality; Monitoring the monitors and the diverse audience problem; Credibility-enhancing variables; Common interests. 
505 8 |a Observable costly effort and the race to the topPenalties for misrepresentation; External verification; Strategies for increasing credibility; Conclusion; 3: Credible certification of child labor free production; Introduction; Credible certification: rugs versus soccer balls; The rug and carpet industry: a relative success in certifying child labor free production; Rugmark (Goodweave); The relative success of Rugmark and the implications for credibility; Kaleen's efforts to monitor the use of child labor; Soccer balls: a lack of credibility in the Foul Ball campaign and Sialkot Project. 
505 8 |a The Foul Ball campaign and the Sialkot Project and the implications for credibilityConclusion: implications for NGO credibility in monitoring and certification; 4: Becoming a household name: how human rights NGOs establish credibility through organizational structure; Credibility; Structure, interests, and values: credibility for NGOs; Thinking about credibility through Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch; Basic comparison of HRW and Amnesty; The effect of membership; Sources of funding; Central agenda-setting; Structure as a determinant of credibility; PART II: Humanitarian NGOs. 
505 8 |a 5: Dilemmas of information and accountability: foreign aid donors and local development NGOsIntroduction; NGOs involved in development assistance: an overview of the actors; Why is credibility a problem?; Implications for donors; Implications for NGOs; Conclusions; 6: In defense of virtue: credibility, legitimacy dilemmas, and the case of Islamic Relief; Virtue under attack; Islamic Relief; Giving while Islamic; Nothing to hide; Card-carrying humanitarians; The benefits and costs of legitimacy in the West; Conclusion; 7: Monitoring repayment in online peer-to-peer lending; Introduction. 
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