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You are a district administrator in a small low-income equatorial country. Unconstrained logging has decimated much of the rainforested areas in the country’s borderlands with tribes of indigenous people dispossessed from their lands. After a news item on a major international news channel, interest in the area has exploded. You have to manage the increased interest from international NGOs. You learn key issues surrounding NGO activity, and basics of how to manage dealing with NGOs- including concepts like codes of conduct and the UN cluster system. Your interactions also provoke thoughts on important future issues for NGOs.
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Mew, E. (2013). Nongovernmental Organizations and Aid. In: MacGarty, D., Nott, D. (eds) Disaster Medicine. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4423-6_7
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