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As a senior NGO practitioner, Tarman reflects on the Caring in Crisis findings and contextualizes them within the long history of NGOs’ attempts to mobilize public support for international development and humanitarian causes. He critically assesses the lessons from the ‘3M’ model for NGO practice; what has been addressed and what needs further and urgent attention in order to promote public’s deeper participation. He argues for the need for increased complexity in the way NGOs see their public and urges practitioners to rethink their role as mediators to enable them to offer in their communications meaningful actions the public can respond to.
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Tarman, G. (2017). Supporting More People that Care to Take Action for International Change: The Challenge for Humanitarian NGOs. In: Caring in Crisis? Humanitarianism, the Public and NGOs. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50259-5_5
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