All Outputs (50)

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.

A faith-inspired way of working: an exploration of International Faith-Inspired Organisation's local faith-inspired humanitarian partnerships and programs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in fragile urban contexts (2022)
Thesis
Goodwin, E. A. J. A faith-inspired way of working: an exploration of International Faith-Inspired Organisation's local faith-inspired humanitarian partnerships and programs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in fragile urban contexts. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on the lives of many of the worlds poorest. COVID-19 has proved to be much more than a health emergency; as well as the immediate health-related concerns of COVID-19, measures to stem the spread of t... Read More about A faith-inspired way of working: an exploration of International Faith-Inspired Organisation's local faith-inspired humanitarian partnerships and programs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in fragile urban contexts.

Daaras and development discourses: Three interventions targeting the practice of begging by talibés in urban Senegal (2022)
Thesis
Macleod, S. Daaras and development discourses: Three interventions targeting the practice of begging by talibés in urban Senegal. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The practice of begging by talibés (Qur’anic school students) in urban Senegal has long attracted the attention of international development actors who either see the talibés’ begging as the result of the exclusion of their daaras (traditional Qur’an... Read More about Daaras and development discourses: Three interventions targeting the practice of begging by talibés in urban Senegal.

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.

"Hidden Catholics", "faith-blind" donors and "FBO empires" : a mixed-methods study on donor engagement of faith-based organisations in the Cameroonian health system (2019)
Thesis
Herzig Van Wees, S. "Hidden Catholics", "faith-blind" donors and "FBO empires" : a mixed-methods study on donor engagement of faith-based organisations in the Cameroonian health system. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Over the past decade, donors have engaged Christian faith-based organisations (FBOs) in health system reforms and health programmes in numerous sub-Saharan African countries. They enjoy a good reputation for the assumed quality of care they can provi... Read More about "Hidden Catholics", "faith-blind" donors and "FBO empires" : a mixed-methods study on donor engagement of faith-based organisations in the Cameroonian health system.

Common witness, common cause: Beyond Boundaries in faith-based development action (2016)
Book Chapter
Jennings, M. (2016). Common witness, common cause: Beyond Boundaries in faith-based development action. In A. Ware, & M. Clarke (Eds.), Development Across Faith Boundaries (16-32). Routledge

Doing Good While They Can: International volunteers, development and politics in early Independence Tanzania (2016)
Book Chapter
Jennings, M. (2016). Doing Good While They Can: International volunteers, development and politics in early Independence Tanzania. In R. Price, & H. Brown (Eds.), Volunteer Economies: The Politics and Ethics of Voluntary Labour in Africa (119-139). Boydell and Brewer

‘Development is Very Political in Tanzania’: Oxfam and the Chunya Integrated Development Programme 1972–76 (2016)
Book Chapter
Jennings, M. (2016). ‘Development is Very Political in Tanzania’: Oxfam and the Chunya Integrated Development Programme 1972–76. In T. Young (Ed.), Readings in the International Relations of Africa (77-92). Indiana University Press

Contested publics : situating civil society in a post--authoritarian era : the case study of Tunisia, 2011–2013 (2016)
Thesis
Fortier, E. A. Contested publics : situating civil society in a post--authoritarian era : the case study of Tunisia, 2011–2013. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Between rhetoric and reality : decentralisation and reproductive health service delivery in rural Tanzania (2016)
Thesis
Masawe, C. A. Between rhetoric and reality : decentralisation and reproductive health service delivery in rural Tanzania. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Cooperation and competition: missions, the colonial state and constructing a health system in colonial Tanganyika (2015)
Book Chapter
Jennings, M. (2015). Cooperation and competition: missions, the colonial state and constructing a health system in colonial Tanganyika. In A. Greenwood (Ed.), Beyond the State: The Colonial Medical Service in British Africa (153-173). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719089671.003.0008

Histories of colonial medicine in sub-Saharan Africa have tended to focus on the role of the colonial state in establishing and running health systems. Where voluntary agency roles have been considered, it has presented them as operating outside that... Read More about Cooperation and competition: missions, the colonial state and constructing a health system in colonial Tanganyika.

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

Kenya: Recent History (2015)
Other
Jennings, M. (2015). Kenya: Recent History. London

Uganda: Recent History (2015)
Other
Jennings, M. (2015). Uganda: Recent History. London

Tanzania: Recent History (2015)
Other
Jennings, M. (2015). Tanzania: Recent History. London

Bridging the Local and the Global: Faith-Based Organisations and the Emergence of the Non-State Provider Sector in Tanzania (2014)
Book Chapter
Jennings, M. (2014). Bridging the Local and the Global: Faith-Based Organisations and the Emergence of the Non-State Provider Sector in Tanzania. In L. Maclean, & M. Cammett (Eds.), The Politics of Non-State Social Welfare in the Global South (119-136). Cornell University Press

Beyond the Tangles of Civil Society (2014)
Other
Jennings, M. (2014). Beyond the Tangles of Civil Society

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.