The 'contrôleuse': recognising the role of the 'fixer' in academic and media NGO development partnerships

Autor:	Emma Heywood, Sue-Ann Harding
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	Capacity development Knowledge management business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development Monitoring and evaluation Development InformationSystems_GENERAL Core (game theory) General partnership Political science business Diversity (politics) media_common
Zdroj:	Heywood, E & Harding, S-A 2022, ' The ‘contrôleuse’: recognising the role of the ‘fixer’ in academic and media NGO development partnerships ', Development in Practice, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 188-200 . https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2021.1911951
ISSN:	1364-9213 0961-4524
DOI:	10.1080/09614524.2021.1911951
Popis:	Successful NGO development and academic partnerships have, at their core, effective intercultural and multilingual communication and translation practices and processes, including critical recognition of the role of ‘fixers’, who act as the ‘interface’ between local participants and academic NGO impact-assessment researchers. Examining what we call the ‘contrôleuse’ in development research projects in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, we show the need, as in journalism, to critically interrogate this intermediary role. Identifying and incorporating the role into research funding and design can be a simple and practical contribution towards challenging inequalities, including contrôleuse perspectives and increasing participatory impact-assessment and development practices.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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