The Localization Agenda : Aid's Failure to Deliver on Its Grand Promise

power-wielding gatekeepers, who determine what constitutes a legitimate emergency responder. Those gatekeepers mandate international NGOs and standard-setting organizations to shepherd nonconforming local organizations towards their standards. This process only reaffirms enduring North-South hierarchies. Ultimately, the reformative potential of the localization agenda is thwarted by its own, internal contradictions-but there are ways of doing things differently by aiming for a true polycentrism that could lead to more sustainable, enduring change. [Publisher's text]

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