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.

Surrogates of the State: Non-Governmental Organisations, Development and Ujamaa in Tanzania (2008)
Book
Jennings, M. (2008). Surrogates of the State: Non-Governmental Organisations, Development and Ujamaa in Tanzania. Kumarian Press

Surrogates of the State explores the delicate relationship between development NGOs and the states they work in using the exhaustive and illuminating case study of Tanzania in the 1960s and 70s. During that time Tanzania instituted the rural socialis... Read More about Surrogates of the State: Non-Governmental Organisations, Development and Ujamaa in Tanzania.