Philanthropic Foundations and Civil Society in Sub-Saharan Africa

Atibil, Christiana

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“…It focuses on norms of reciprocity, social relations and trust. Atibil (2014) also provides an important framework for distinguishing informal philanthropy from formal and hybrid philanthropy. She argues that informal African philanthropy is unique, due to (a) its emphasis on reciprocity and counter-obligation; (b) the inter-personal nature of giving without intermediaries; (c) the fact that giving is strongly connected to place and people; and (d) the fact that it is largely horizontal.…”

Section: African and Western Concepts Of Philanthropy: An Analytical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals: An Analysis of the Potential Role of Philanthropy in Ghana

Kumi

2019

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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In September 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly as the cardinal agenda for guiding future global development. In financing the SDGs, there has been an increasing call on stakeholder diversification by leveraging on other non-state actors and private finance including philanthropic institutions in influencing, delivering and advancing the SDGs. Drawing on insights from the Ghanaian philanthropic sector, I show that philanthropic institutions play complementary roles in service delivery, support civil society organisations to engage in active action and advocacy, and enhance paradigm shifts in development thinking around the SDGs. I argue for the need in embracing complexity thinking that recognises that the attainment of the SDGs is dependent on the creation of an enabling environment and effective multi-stakeholder consultation.

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Section: African and Western Concepts Of Philanthropy: An Analytical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals: An Analysis of the Potential Role of Philanthropy in Ghana

Kumi

2019

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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“…As shown in the graphs and tables, South African youth volunteerism is triggered more by altruism, and they are more likely to volunteer (particularly women) for a good course. They are readier to partner with people due to kinship and social identity, place of origin, having close physical proximity, and in the same socio-economic class to volunteer more than with total strangers Solanki, 2004, 2008;Caprara et al, 2012;Atibil, 2014;Mati, 2017, StatsSA, 2018.…”

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Youth Volunteering for Development in South Africa

Azunna¹,

Botchway²,

Botes³

2021

ASR

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Youth unemployment and the quest for empowerment have led to a growing surge in youth volunteerism in South Africa. The objective of this paper is consequently to examine how youth volunteer activities (YVAs) have offered opportunities and created an enabling development environment for young men and women to be employable, thereby improving their qualityof life. To be able to achieve this objective, the researchers used quantitative methodologies to generate data for analysis. The researchers relied on secondary information from Statistics South Africa’s (StatsSA) database. The study found that the youth volunteer rate has increased over the past decade by 2.1 percentage points from 3.7% to 5.8%. It also found that youthvolunteerism has become a way of life and a route to fulltime employment that assured them and improved their quality of life.

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“…Regarding the relationship between corporate charity and African giving traditions, Atibil (2014) argues that an important dynamic of traditional African forms of charity is disintermediation (a penchant for personal contact between supporters and recipients). She laments that professionalized corporate charitable work in Africa divorces donors from beneficiaries, fosters donor facelessness and leads to the loss of personal gratitude, a necessary dynamic in African philanthropy.…”

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“…CACOVID embodies a different form of giving socialities and politics that is not grounded on informality or familiarity. Scholars of philanthropy in Africa (Atibil, 2014;Akpilima-Atibil, 2018;Ngondi-Houghton, 2005) suggest that giving to everybody and to no one in particular, and receiving from everybody and from nobody, defeat the spirit of African modes of charity. They suggest that traditional African forms of giving continue to thrive because they allow beneficiaries and givers to connect directly and continuously.…”

Section: Cacovid: Beyond the Rhetoric Of Good Intentionsmentioning

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Organized Private Sector Charitable Giving: Reflections and Lessons from the Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID) Initiative in Nigeria

Mac-Ikemenjima

Izugbara

2022

IRPSI

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Little research has addressed the charitable activities of Africa's corporate sector in the context of COVID-19. Focusing on the Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID), a Nigerian organized private sector initiative to support government's response to COVID-19, we explore lessons and challenges for Africa's corporate philanthropic efforts to address the region's development concerns. While CACOVID cannot be fully divorced from the profit-making impulse of leading Nigeria's private sector brands, it generated significant resources which helped to advance the Nigerian government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Emerging lessons from CACOVID include the significance of credible leadership for Africa-led and -owned philanthropy; the immense philanthropic potential of Nigeria's organized private sector; the continued indifference of local philanthropy to the root causes of marginality and inequity; and the potential risks for similar charitable schemes from ignoring traditional African norms of giving and relying on ungainly and politicized state structures to deliver their activities. Initiatives such as CACOVID would benefit from greater transparency and accountability not just to their initiators, but also, and more importantly, to those whom they purport to serve.

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Philanthropic Foundations and Civil Society in Sub-Saharan Africa

Cited by 8 publications

References 10 publications

Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals: An Analysis of the Potential Role of Philanthropy in Ghana

Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals: An Analysis of the Potential Role of Philanthropy in Ghana

Youth Volunteering for Development in South Africa

Organized Private Sector Charitable Giving: Reflections and Lessons from the Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID) Initiative in Nigeria

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