DU Impacts of Donation Mechanisms on Implementation Practices Discussion

Model 2 Overview : examines the way different financing mechanisms – institutional donors, private donations, and cooperative mechanisms – affect relief and development work.

By the end of this module, students will be able to:

1. Analyze the impacts of donation mechanisms on implementation practices.

Discussion

Please discuss the readings in the context of the course topic, your experiences.You can make comments or ask questions, as well as responding to what your classmates say.

How are funding mechanisms for humanitarian aid and development different? How do they overlap?

How much of the difference comes from the mechanisms and how much from different social understandings of short-term crises as opposed to long-term development needs?

This discussion requires two posts, an initial post and two response post. Later in the day will need to respond to two other posting. 100 words each so a total of 200 in responses to two other students. Total of 850- 950 words in discussion post, reference not included in the word counting. I will upload the required pdfs.

Read the following

Tullock, Gordon. “Information Without Profit.” Papers on Non-Market Decision Making, Vol. 1 (Dec., 1966), pp. 141-159

Flint, M and H Goyder (2006) Funding the tsunami response. London: Tsunami Evaluation Coalition.

McCarthy, John D. and Mayer N. Zald. “Resource Mobilization and Social Movements: A Partial Theory.” American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 82, No. 6 (May, 1977), pp. 1212-1241

Older, Malka. “When Is Too Much Money Worse Than Too Little? Giving, Aid, and Impact After the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004” Recovery from Indian Ocean Tsunami: Ten Years Journey. Rajib Shaw, Ed. Springer, 2014.

Bayne, Sarah and Joanna Buckley. “Towards principled humanitarian funding (Links to an external site.)” ODI HPN

Konyndyk, Jeremy. “Rethinking the Humanitarian Business Model (Links to an external site.)” Center for Global Development, 2018.