The Western Gaze and Its Effects on Aid
Today’s post addresses a composite of issues connected to racism and paternalism in representations of Africans in the West and its impact on humanitarianism in Africa. The post represents revised […]
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Of Course, Development Aid has a Big Black People Problem
The CIHA Blog has consistently highlighted racialized practices of reporting on Africa as well as aid to Africa. This piece by Lydia Namubiru, originally written for and posted on […]
Happy World NGO Day?
In case you didn’t know, today is “World NGO Day“! The Day was first celebrated in 2010 by the 12 member countries of the IX Baltic Sea NGO Forum […]
Inclusion vs. Inequities Among NGOs: Evidence from Recent NGO Conferences
by Cecelia Lynch
Recent reports on humanitarian trends continue to beg the very important question of how and why paternalism in the aid industry continues. One of the major reasons, as […]
In the News: Serious Inequalities in the Humanitarian Industry
posted by Cecelia Lynch
The following report and articles detail how the big NGOs, both faith-based and non-faith-based, continue to rake in most humanitarian and development funding to the detriment of […]
International Aid: Western Paternalism or a Moral Imperative?
Dear Readers: While we at the CIHA blog tend to be critical of aspects of humanitarianism and aid in Africa we also recognize its endurance as well as the goodwill […]