TY - JOUR
T1 - Charity Rankings
T2 - Delivering Development or Dehumanising Aid?
AU - Cochrane, Logan
AU - Thornton, Alec
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - Individuals want to know which organisations to donate to, and a variety of organisations have developed ranking systems to guide them. This paper explores charity ranking, with a particular focus on the increasing role of impact and 'cost-effectiveness'. Ranking systems are composed of a selection of metrics, which may miss important components and, as a result, create a set of unintended outcomes. We argue that an emphasis on cost-effectiveness and impact in ranking promotes simple, technocratic activities, negatively affects human rights-based interventions and de-prioritises inventions that work in remote, complex settings. The topic of charity ranking and its influence on private donors is limited in the literature, and this paper seeks to make a contribution to this important debate.
AB - Individuals want to know which organisations to donate to, and a variety of organisations have developed ranking systems to guide them. This paper explores charity ranking, with a particular focus on the increasing role of impact and 'cost-effectiveness'. Ranking systems are composed of a selection of metrics, which may miss important components and, as a result, create a set of unintended outcomes. We argue that an emphasis on cost-effectiveness and impact in ranking promotes simple, technocratic activities, negatively affects human rights-based interventions and de-prioritises inventions that work in remote, complex settings. The topic of charity ranking and its influence on private donors is limited in the literature, and this paper seeks to make a contribution to this important debate.
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U2 - 10.1002/jid.3201
DO - 10.1002/jid.3201
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84961287196
SN - 0954-1748
VL - 28
SP - 57
EP - 73
JO - Journal of International Development
JF - Journal of International Development
IS - 1
ER -