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NGOs and Non-State Actors - Coggle Diagram
NGOs and Non-State Actors
Key Terms
Non governmental organizations (NGOs)
Women's rights
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A number of groups organized to raise money; a large proportion of these groups were women NGO's
Added to this variety were the many different ways in which the new rhetoric and practices were accommodated into existing society.
"This essay traces the trajectory of women’s organizing in BiH since the end of the war, exploring the disconnects and convergences between the discourses and practices of donors and of local women’s NGOs."
assumptions about women's activism and NGO work; argues about a more precise use of terminology
Hard to write about these groups ... will be picked apart
Donors
"Local NGOs tried to make the most of the attention from donors and intervention agencies, in some cases virtually ignoring local governmental structures and even the local population ..."
Added special gender units
the provision of social services not covered by the state
For example, microcredit schemes were described as a way to aid internally displaced women, and small-scale crafts production was pro-moted as psychosocial help for women who had been traumatized by their experiences in the war.
Would perform knitting projects to help the psychologists
Women
Women groups were the most respected groups in social outlets; a mixed group sex wouldn't be acceptable
"the assumption that the women participants adhered to such traditionally female domestic roles was reflected in the bingo prizes, which included sets of pots and pans, cleaning gadgets, beauty products, and dishes."
Social events for women only and they would "scramble" to complete their chores the day before
On one hand, feminist NGOs that preferred to keep a low pub-lic profile and to get things done behind the scenes challenged the ex-pectations of feminist donors and supporters as to what women’s rights (or feminist) activism should look like.
Bosnian feminists considered this advocacy role to be what made their work political.
"women" as a mobilized identity
Bosanka
Over a decade later, what advocacy work there was had achieved some concrete results, and networks among women’s NGOs, at least a select group of them, were even stronger than previously.
The larger public is more likely to respond to practical issues depicted in an accessible way, even when informed by theoretical principles.