Working in partnerships an ethnographic study on volunteers' narratives of establishing, managing and ending partnerships between Finnish and Indian NGOs

Pro gradu -tutkielmassani tarkastelen suomalaisten ja intialaisten kehitysyhteistyöjärjestöjen yhteisen kehitysyhteistyöhankkeen ympärille muodostunutta yhteistyötä eli kumppanuutta. Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena on ymmärtää kumppanuuden muodostumiseen, ylläpitoon ja lopettamiseen vaikuttavia tekijöitä....

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Main Author: Eronen, Elina
Other Authors: Humanistinen tiedekunta, Faculty of Humanities, Historian ja etnologian laitos, Department of History and Ethnology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylän yliopisto
Format: Master's thesis
Language:eng
Published: 2015
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title Working in partnerships : an ethnographic study on volunteers' narratives of establishing, managing and ending partnerships between Finnish and Indian NGOs
title_alt Ethnographic study on volunteers' narratives of establishing, managing and ending partnerships between Finnish and Indian NGOs
title_full Working in partnerships : an ethnographic study on volunteers' narratives of establishing, managing and ending partnerships between Finnish and Indian NGOs
title_fullStr Working in partnerships : an ethnographic study on volunteers' narratives of establishing, managing and ending partnerships between Finnish and Indian NGOs Working in partnerships : an ethnographic study on volunteers' narratives of establishing, managing and ending partnerships between Finnish and Indian NGOs
title_full_unstemmed Working in partnerships : an ethnographic study on volunteers' narratives of establishing, managing and ending partnerships between Finnish and Indian NGOs Working in partnerships : an ethnographic study on volunteers' narratives of establishing, managing and ending partnerships between Finnish and Indian NGOs
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title_sort working in partnerships an ethnographic study on volunteers narratives of establishing managing and ending partnerships between finnish and indian ngos
title_sub an ethnographic study on volunteers' narratives of establishing, managing and ending partnerships between Finnish and Indian NGOs
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