Making Civil Society Sustainable: The Legacy of USAID in Croatia

被引：7

作者：

Heideman, Laura J. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Northern Illinois Univ, Ctr Nonprofit & NGO Studies, Dept Sociol, De Kalb, IL 60115 USA

来源：

VOLUNTAS | 2018年 / 29卷 / 02期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

Civil society; Sustainability; Aid; Donor withdrawal; Croatia; LESSONS; NGOS; TRANSITIONS; BOSNIA; PEACE; WAR;

D O I：

10.1007/s11266-017-9896-3

中图分类号：

D58 [社会生活与社会问题]; C913 [社会生活与社会问题];

学科分类号：

摘要：

What makes civil society sustainable? This paper examines USAID "Legacy Mechanisms"-programs designed to support a stable civil society after USAID withdraws aid-in the context of post-war Croatia to reconceptualize civil society sustainability in terms of resilience. Rather than examine whether specific legacy mechanisms remained intact, this paper looks at how Croatian civil society organizations adopted, adapted, and dropped these legacy programs to respond to novel crises and a changing political and social environment once USAID exited Croatia. Drawing on archival data from USAID's time in Croatia and interviews conducted between 2008 (the year after USAID withdrew) and 2016, this paper shows that the long-term impact USAID had on civil society lay not within the formal institutions and organizations it supported, but in the resilience, creativity, and cooperation it fostered in the civil society sector.

引用

页码：333 / 347

页数：15