Les ONG et La mesure du développement: entre performance et communication

Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos

Revue Tiers-Monde, 2013, vol. n°213, issue 1, 71-86

Abstract: NGOs and institutional funders currently use quantitative tools to measure poverty and the impact of their development programmes. Such a statistical evaluation started with economists and the military at the end of the Second World War, but it became a paradigm in the 1980s, when the operators of international aid had to follow a liberal model to demonstrate their performance. This article thus introduces a general discussion on the standardisation and the (mis) use of numbers to evaluate NGOs in a context where humanitarian rhetoric is often confused with marketing and fundraising.

Keywords: NGOs; quantitative evaluation; international aid; development; communication (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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