Hegemony, Counter Hegemony and NGO Accountability Change: BRAC in Bangladesh

Author(s)
Ahmed, Z., Hopper, T. & Wickramsinghe, D.
Publication language
English
Pages
39pp
Date published
01 Jan 2010
Type
Research, reports and studies
Keywords
Accountability and Participation, Accountability to affected populations (AAP), NGOs
Countries
Bangladesh

Drawing from Antonio Gramsci’s ideas, a dialectic analysis of accountability change in a large,
Bangladesh NGO – BRAC is conducted to investigate how BRAC extended accountability issues
within society; and how hegemonic and counter-hegemonic dialectics changed accountability
practices. The paper details how a functional accountability was transformed into a holistic social form as it interacted with Bangladesh’s socio-economic and political context.