PPPA 6058 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Market Failure
16 May 2016
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Class 2 notes (class exercise: we need ngos because . Fowler: pursue individual interests of citizens, act as intermediaries and hybrid in nature. Brinkerhoff: market failures, transcend national border (funding, interest, resources, ideas, aggregating needs and opinions from the community, ability to focus on local needs, presumed neutrality: trustworthy providers (public perception of credibility, flexibility to adapt, less accountability pressures. Demonstration of a model (both government and private sector) Government: changes and loses institutional memory vs. ngo: continuation of leadership. Unite people with a moral and ethical value (rare in public and private sector) Con: project cycle -> don"t have to be bound to that cycle by definition: ngos aren"t all they"re cracked up to be because . Ngos have less power to leverage than public/private sector. Not held to the same accountability/rules -> no bottom line: getting funding doesn"t mean the projects are helpful/successful. No free-market -> longer time lag before you figure out that the project is working.
