How Successful Transnational Non-governmental Organizations Set Themselves up for Failure on the Ground

Cristina M. Balboa

World Development, 2014, vol. 54, issue C, 273-287

Abstract: This paper examines transnational non-governmental organization (TNGO) influence on global, national, or local policy arenas, as well as how a TNGO’s actions in one arena might aid or encumber its effectiveness in another. It expands Steinberg’s spheres of influence framework (2001, 2003) to create a new capacity typology. Through examining Conservation International’s work in Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea, this paper demonstrates the “paradox of global capacity”: a phenomenon where a TNGO prioritizes certain capacities that paradoxically grant it access to work at the local level while impeding its efforts to create lasting change there.

Keywords: capacity; NGOs; transnational; Papua New Guinea; environment; Integrated Conservation and Development Project (ICDP) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2013.09.001

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