Outputs (15)

Impacts of child sponsorship communications: findings from World Vision programmes (2022)
Journal Article
Feeny, S., Clarke, M., Westhorp, G., Jennings, M., & Donohue, C. (2023). Impacts of child sponsorship communications: findings from World Vision programmes. Development in Practice, 33(3), 280-290. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2021.2018403

Child sponsorship programmes often seek to establish a personal relationship between a sponsor and child through the exchange of letters, photos, and sometimes gifts. This paper examines the impact of these activities using data from communities supp... Read More about Impacts of child sponsorship communications: findings from World Vision programmes.

The challenges of donor engagement with faith-based organizations in Cameroon’s health sector: a qualitative study (2021)
Journal Article
van Wees, S. H., & Jennings, M. (2021). The challenges of donor engagement with faith-based organizations in Cameroon’s health sector: a qualitative study. Health policy and planning, 36(4), 464-472. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czab006

Substantial global advocacy efforts have been made over the past decade to encourage partnerships and funding of faith-based organizations in international development programmes in efforts to improve social and health outcomes. Whilst there is a wea... Read More about The challenges of donor engagement with faith-based organizations in Cameroon’s health sector: a qualitative study.

The role of faith-based health professions schools in Cameroon’s health system (2020)
Journal Article
van Wees, S. H., Sop, M. D. S., Betsi, E., Olongo, S. A., & Jennings, M. (2021). The role of faith-based health professions schools in Cameroon’s health system. Global Public Health, 16(6), 895-910. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2020.1828985

Faith-based health professions schools contribute to the training of staff in many Sub-Saharan African countries. Yet little is known about these actors, their role in the health system, potential comparative advantages and challenges faced. This is... Read More about The role of faith-based health professions schools in Cameroon’s health system.

A Potent Fuel?: Faith Identity And Development Impact In World Vision Community Programming (2020)
Journal Article
Jennings, M., Clarke, M., Feeny, S., Westhorp, G., & Donohue, C. (2020). A Potent Fuel?: Faith Identity And Development Impact In World Vision Community Programming. Journal of International Development, 33(1), 70-85. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3512

This paper explores the role of faith identity on impact in development by looking at the programming of a major international faith‐based development organisation (FBDO). It argues that faith identity rests not only in the internal projected identit... Read More about A Potent Fuel?: Faith Identity And Development Impact In World Vision Community Programming.

The precariousness of the franchise state: Voluntary sector health services and international NGOs in Tanzania, 1960s – mid-1980s (2015)
Journal Article
Jennings, M. (2015). The precariousness of the franchise state: Voluntary sector health services and international NGOs in Tanzania, 1960s – mid-1980s. Social Science & Medicine, 141, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.07.018

Common Counsel, Common Policy: Healthcare, Missions and the Rise of the ‘Voluntary Sector’ in Colonial Tanzania (2013)
Journal Article
Jennings, M. (2013). Common Counsel, Common Policy: Healthcare, Missions and the Rise of the ‘Voluntary Sector’ in Colonial Tanzania. Development and Change, 44(4), 939-963. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12044

Analysis of the voluntary sector in sub-Saharan Africa has tended to focus on the role of the NGO, and the types of relationships this institution establishes and maintains with donors, national governments and the communities with which they work. T... Read More about Common Counsel, Common Policy: Healthcare, Missions and the Rise of the ‘Voluntary Sector’ in Colonial Tanzania.

Réhabiliter les nationalismes : convivialité et conscience nationale en Tanzanie post-coloniale’ [Rehabilitating Nationalisms: Conviviality and National Consciousness in Post-Colonial Tanzania] (2011)
Journal Article
Jennings, M., & Mercer, C. (2011). Réhabiliter les nationalismes : convivialité et conscience nationale en Tanzanie post-coloniale’ [Rehabilitating Nationalisms: Conviviality and National Consciousness in Post-Colonial Tanzania]. Politique africaine (Paris), 121, 87-106. https://doi.org/10.3917/polaf.121.0087

Building Better People: Modernity and Utopia in Late Colonial Tanganyika (2009)
Journal Article
Jennings, M. (2009). Building Better People: Modernity and Utopia in Late Colonial Tanganyika. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 3(1), 94-111. https://doi.org/10.1080/17531050802682838

Healing of Bodies, Salvation of Souls’: Missionary Medicine in Colonial Tanganyika, 1870s-1939 (2008)
Journal Article
Jennings, M. (2008). Healing of Bodies, Salvation of Souls’: Missionary Medicine in Colonial Tanganyika, 1870s-1939. Journal of Religion in Africa, 38(1), 27-56. https://doi.org/10.1163/157006608X262700

"A Very Real War": Popular Participation in Development in Tanzania During the 1950s and 1960s (2007)
Journal Article
Jennings, M. (2007). "A Very Real War": Popular Participation in Development in Tanzania During the 1950s and 1960s. The International journal of African historical studies, 40(1), 71-95