Power critical

Dankwa, Serena O. (2022). Power critical Medicus Mundi Schweiz Bulletin

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“Decolonization” in the world of development cooperation is often equated with the goal of building equitable partnerships between organizations in the North and their “local partners” in the South. But how equitable can we be, if our development NGOs in the North are considered international, while the NGOs we are funding in the South are considered local, no matter how many organizations from different donor nations they are reporting to? IAMANEH Switzerland has long been aware of the challenge of equitable partnerships in an unequal world. However, it takes courage to understand these inequalities as part of the (neo) colonial structure we are all still implicated in. Here is how our journey began.

Item Type:

Report (Expert Opinion)

Division/Institute:

06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute of Social Anthropology

UniBE Contributor:

Dankwa, Serena Owusua

Subjects:

300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology

Publisher:

Medicus Mundi Schweiz Bulletin

Language:

English

Submitter:

Jana Samira Lamatsch

Date Deposited:

14 Feb 2023 10:13

Last Modified:

14 Feb 2023 23:28

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/178733

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/178733

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