Why Do NGOs Go Where They Go? Evidence from Kenya

Jennifer N. Brass

World Development, 2012, vol. 40, issue 2, 387-401

Abstract: Using Kenya as a case study, this paper provides preliminary evidence of the factors influencing Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to choose their locations within a country. Interpreting the findings from a range of models evaluating 4,210 organizations in 70 districts, and drawing on in-country interviews with NGO leaders and workers, government officials, and politicians, it finds that sub-national NGO location corresponds to an area’s objective level of need, as well as the convenience of the location for accessing beneficiaries, donors, and elite goods. Contrary to dominant theories of African political economy, political factors like patronage appear to have little or no significant influence.

Keywords: Africa; Kenya; nongovernmental organizations (NGOs); politics; geographic placement; location (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2011.07.017

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