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Call for applications: Ph.D. Course: 'Critical perspectives on NGOs in development'
Published: 01 March 2017
The objective of this interdisciplinary course is to critically analyse the changing role of NGOs in development, focusing especially on health and environment.
- What roles do NGO-actors play: for example in communicating local realities to those in power, in representing civil society, or as sub-contractors to donors?
- What are their resources, and sources of power; and how is this power exercised?
- What are the wider implications of the increased influence, proliferation-, and professionalization of NGOs?
Date: 16 – 18 August, 2017
Venue: Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), University of Oslo, Norway
Organised by: Oslo Academy of Global Governance, and SUM Research School, Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo
