Dr Nilima Gulrajani (Room H316)

MSc Development Management, MSc Public Policy and Administration, MSc Anthropology and Development and MSc Public Management and Governance .  Other MSc students can take this course, subject to programme regulations and with permission of the lecturer.

This course will focus on the application of public management and organizational theory to the field of international development.  Analysis will concentrate within three levels, namely the domestic bureaucratic contexts within developing countries, the organizational actors working in the name of development and field-level dynamics within the international assistance industry.  Critical understanding will be fostered of the strategies advocated to organize, manage and improve the efficiency, effectiveness, accountability, performance and quality of collaborations within and across each of these levels.  By exploring the conceptual, empirical and practical foundations of these strategies, students will be well equipped to assess the organization of development assistance.

Performance measurement and results-based management; Aid efficiency and effectiveness; Governance and corruption in developing countries; Accountability and regulation in aid; Professionals in aid; Organizational cultures and incentives in development bureaucracies; Social ventures in development.

Ten lectures and ten seminars.

Students will write one unassessed 2000 word essay.

Mosse, D. 2005. Cultivating Development: An Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice. London, Pluto Press.
Paton, B. 2003. Managing and Measuring Social Enterprises. London, Sage Publications.
Riddell, R. 2007. Does Foreign Aid Really Work? Oxford, Oxford University Press
Tender, J. 1998. Good Government in the Tropics. Maryland, Johns Hopkins University Press.

Two-hour examination (70% ) in the ST and one 3,000 word essay worth (30%) due on the last day of LT.