Title Mobile Professional Voluntarism and International Development : Killing Me Softly?.

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New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2017.

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Description	1 online resource (XV, 173 pages 13 illustrations, 11 illustrations in color.) : online resource.
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Series	Palgrave pivot
	Palgrave pivot.
Contents	1. Mobile Professional Voluntarism and International Development 'Aid' -- 2. 'First Do No Harm': Professional Volunteers as Knowledge Intermediaries -- 3. Fetishizing and Commodifying 'Training'? -- 4. Can (Imported) Knowledge Change Systems? Understanding the Dynamics of Behaviour Change -- 5. Iterative Learning: 'Knowledge for Change'?
Summary	This book is open access under a CC BY license. This book explores the impact that professional volunteers have on the low resource countries they choose to spend time in. Whilst individual volunteering may be of immediate benefit to individual patients, this intervention may have detrimental effects on local health systems; distorting labour markets, accentuating dependencies and creating opportunities for corruption. Improved volunteer deployment may avoid these risks and present opportunities for sustainable systems change. The empirical research presented in this book stems from a specific volunteering intervention funded by the Tropical Health Education Trust and focused on improving maternal and newborn health in Uganda. However, important opportunities exist for policy transfer to other contexts
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Note	SpringerLink Springer Nature Open Access eBooks
Subject	Political science.
	Comparative government.
	Africa -- Politics and government.
	Great Britain -- Politics and government.
	International organization.
	Economic development.
	Social change.
	International relations.
	African Politics.
	Development Theory.
	Development and Social Change.
	British Politics.
	Comparative government. (OCoLC)fst00871341
	Economic development. (OCoLC)fst00901785
	International organization. (OCoLC)fst00977038
	Political science. (OCoLC)fst01069781
	Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
	Social change. (OCoLC)fst01122310
	Africa. (OCoLC)fst01239509
	Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
Added Author	Ackers-Johnson, James, author.
Other Form:	Print version: Ackers, Helen Louise. Mobile Professional Voluntarism and International Development. New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2017 1137558326 9781137558329
Standard No.	10.1057/978-1-137-55833-6 doi
ISBN	9781137558336
	1137558334
	1137558326
	9781137558329

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