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Learning in a Ugandan gender advocacy NGO : Organizational growth and institutional wrestling

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Kontinen, T., & Ndidde, A. N. (2020). Learning in a Ugandan gender advocacy NGO : Organizational growth and institutional wrestling. In K. Holma, & T. Kontinen (Eds.), Practices of Citizenship in East Africa : Perspectives from Philosophical Pragmatism (pp. 176-193). Routledge. Routledge Explorations in Development Studies. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429279171-12
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Routledge Explorations in Development Studies
Authors
Kontinen, Tiina |
Ndidde, Alice N.
Editors
Holma, Katariina |
Kontinen, Tiina
Date
2020
Discipline
Kansainvälinen kehitystutkimusInternational Development Studies
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© 2020 Taylor & Francis

 
The chapter explores organizational learning in a Ugandan gender advocacy organization, Action for Development (ACFODE), in the course of history of over 30 years. It identifies three instances of learning: changes in the habits of project implementation, changes in the advocacy approaches, and reformulation the ways of being an organization. Each of these instances include continuous institutional wrestling; between easily defined and measurable training approaches and activities embedded in daily life of communities, between contestation and co-optation in relationship with the state, and between being a structured modern organization or informal members’ meeting place. The chapter shows that organizational learning in NGOs requires remaining faithful to organizational core concern and tolerating continuous uncertainties and tensions presented by institutional environments, which lead to problematic situations that cannot be solved by any individual organization alone.
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Routledge
Parent publication ISBN
978-0-367-23296-2
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Practices of Citizenship in East Africa : Perspectives from Philosophical Pragmatism
Keywords
Uganda järjestötoiminta oppiminen kansalaisuus tasa-arvo kansalaisyhteiskunta kansalaisjärjestöt
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https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429279171-12
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http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202004152757

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https://converis.jyu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/33707005

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Academy of Finland
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