Who cares? The personal and professional problems of NGO fieldworkers in Bangladesh
Morshed Ahmad, Mokbul
Morshed Ahmad, Mokbul
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2002-05-01
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This article highlights the personal and professional problems of NGO fieldworkers in Bangladesh. The paper draws on field research with the front-line workers of four NGOs, their clients, immediate superiors, and senior management. Fieldworkers face personal problems such as job insecurity, financial hardships, difficulties with accommodation, and family dislocation. These problems differ according to gender, marital status, and age. Professional problems include training, promotion, and transfer. In addition, fieldworkers face problems in their external relationships, including suspicion, resistance or lack of cooperation from religious leaders and localites, time and resource constraints, competition for clients, and eagerness of the intended beneficiaries simply to get access to financial or material benefits. It will be argued that the strengths of the fieldworkers of Southern NGOs have been largely unexplored and undervalued.<p>This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.</p>
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Development in Practice
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12
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2
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0961-4524
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1364-9213