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Footitt, Hilary – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2017
This article explores the context of intercultural relations in the field of international aid and development. Examining the activities of a large UK-based transnational NGO (OxfamGB) through a detailed reading of its own 60-year-long archived story, the article seeks to reimagine the "contact zones" of aid and development as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intercultural Programs, Nonprofit Organizations, Technical Assistance
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Tota, Pasqua Marina – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2014
This article discusses the involvement of international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) in transnational education policy-making, with particular reference to the global initiative Education for All (EFA). EFA is a policy process carried out by international governmental organisations (IGOs) with the main aim to achieve basic education for…
Descriptors: Institutional Role, Nongovernmental Organizations, Equal Education, Access to Education
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Offenheiser, Raymond; Holcombe, Susan; Hopkins, Nancy – Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 1999
Oxfam America is an international development and relief organization that is grappling with building a learning organization, creating constructive labor-management relations, and trying to position itself as one of the most effective, forward-looking nongovernmental organizations of the next century. (JOW)
Descriptors: Adults, Foreign Countries, Fund Raising, Global Approach