TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ackers,Helen Louise
AU  - Ackers-Johnson,James
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Mobile Professional Voluntarism and International Development: Killing Me Softly? 
SN  - 9781137558336
AV  - JA71-80 
U1  - 320 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan US, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Comparative politics
KW  - Africa—Politics and government
KW  - Economic development
KW  - Social change
KW  - Great Britain—Politics and government
KW  - International organization
KW  - Comparative Politics
KW  - African Politics
KW  - Development Theory
KW  - Development and Social Change
KW  - British Politics
KW  - International Organization
N1  - 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'?; Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55833-6
ER  -