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Demonstrating development: meetings as management in Kenya's health sector

Brown, H.; Green, M.

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M. Green



Contributors

A Reed
Editor

T Yarrow
Editor

Abstract

International development operates as a system of meetings. This essay shows how meetings work within aid regimes to structure responsibilities for implementation, to situate projects within funding streams, and to realize the effects of scale. Where donor aid is increasingly allocated to support national plans which are the responsibility of recipient governments, the monitoring of outcomes requires the instantiation of project forms within and across existing state institutions. This involves the delineation of distinct sectors and their scale of operation, alongside the maintenance of relations with external funders. Drawing on ethnographic material from the Kenyan health sector, we show how development projects are realized as tangible social institutions through the structure of formal meetings. Meetings mark the temporality and trajectory of development as a set of planned activities contributing to specific targets. In the context of specific projects they become fora where commitment to development goals of participation, capacity-building, and effective management can be demonstrated.

Citation

Brown, H., & Green, M. (2017). Demonstrating development: meetings as management in Kenya's health sector. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 23(S1), 45-62. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12593

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Feb 2, 2017
Online Publication Date Mar 16, 2017
Publication Date Apr 1, 2017
Deposit Date Mar 9, 2017
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Print ISSN 1359-0987
Electronic ISSN 1467-9655
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 23
Issue S1
Pages 45-62
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12593

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This is the accepted version of the following article: Brown, H. and Green, M. (2017), Demonstrating development: meetings as management in Kenya's health sector. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 23(S1): 45-62, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12593. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.





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