TNGO Initiative

06/19/2020

To order the book (including pre-orders): Click here Click here Coming out soon! (June 2020) What will be the future of transnational NGOs? Between Power and Irrelevance: the Future of Transnational NGOs Why this book? It explains why a gap exists between the rhetoric of transformative change and th...

08/07/2018

We were asked to write a guest essay for CIVICUS's well known State of Civil Society report, which this year is devoted to 'Re-imagining Democracy'. I wrote a somewhat provocative - though serious -- essay about limits to internal democracy in transnational NGOs as I see it:

Guest article by Tosca Bruno-van Vijfeijken, Director, Transnational NGO Initiative, Syracuse University, USA

05/16/2018

The external Assessment of Amnesty Internationals Global Transition Program has allowed the TNGO Initiative to assess how this process has affected Amnesty's human rights advocacy outcomes and the efficacy of their change leadership and management. After having assisted a number of major international non-governmental organizations review these processes, TNGO Initiative Director, Tosca Bruno-van Vijfeijken poses reflections and lessons learned.

I am Tosca Bruno-van Vijfeijken, and I direct the Transnational NGO Initiative at Syracuse University, USA. The Initiative has assisted a number of major international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to review their leadership and management practices related to large-scale organizational chan...

05/16/2018

Amnesty International commissioned the TNGO Initiative to conduct an Independent Assessment of their Global Transition Program - and it is finally public! - The GTP represented a significant organizational change for Amnesty: it set up Regional Offices across the globe in 11 locations, hired many staff and leaders from the global south and reduced the number of staff in the International Secretariat in London significantly. Follow the link to read a quick blog post about this on the TNGO Initiative webpage.

Amnesty commissioned the Transnational NGO (TNGO) Initiative at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, USA in 2016-2017 to carry out an independent Final Assessment of Amnesty International’s Global Transition Program (GTP). Amnesty was committed to making this ...

05/15/2018

An excellent job opening for an accomplished junior to mid level researcher at Maxwell:

"Psst, want my job? This is my last week as Deputy Head of Research at Oxfam. It’s a role which is as fascinating as it is challenging. You get to work on important global issues, with brilliant and bright people from all over the world."

http://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/a-day-in-the-life-of-an-oxfam-researcher-fancy-joining-the-team/

04/17/2018

Join a very interesting panel on Teaching Citizenship in Challenging Times, on Friday, April 20th, 10:00AM-12:00PM in 341 Eggers, featuring Tosca Bruno-van Vijfeijken, Director of the TNGO Initiative, Elisabeth D Lasch-Quinn, Professor of History, Azra Hromadzic, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Gladys McCormick, Associate Professor of History, Gretchen Purser, Assistant Professor of Sociology, and Audie Klots, Professor of Political Science

03/28/2018

Join our student driven event, a discussion panel led by Zachary Krahmer, EMIR & MPD and five other colleagues to discuss Campaigning through Culture in Development Settings: Student Reflections Based on Experience, Wednesday, April 4th 12:30-1:45pm in 341 Eggers Hall

03/11/2018

How can you maximize your chances of getting a response to your email in the aid industry? One hint: "Tone:

Strike the appropriate balance between informality and formality: ‘Dear Sir’ is likely to be OTT (and they will think it’s a roundrobin) but don’t go the ‘Hey, Bob’ route either – no first names if you’ve never met them! (Shabana Abbas, Sophia Murphy)"

The best advice Twitter has to offer on the thorny question of how students can get potential interviewees or contacts to reply to their emails. Read and learn.

03/11/2018

Oxfams reputation is on the line in light of a shocking s*x scandal, prompting the Deputy Chief Executive to resign.

The UK charity's deputy CEO quits over how it handled s*x claims, and a statutory inquiry is opened.

03/06/2018

The Transnational NGO Initiative is holding a discussion panel on the nuances of the 'voluntourism' industry titled Voluntourism: a Gift, a Burden, or Both? The event is Tuesday, March 6th from 12:30 to 1:45pm in Eggers 341, lunch served!

03/01/2018

With much of the aid community ‘promising’ to head South, Oxfam confronts the question: are there still jobs in this field for Europeans and North Americans looking to build a career in the field of ‘development studies’?

As politics, economics and the aid biz moves South and East, will northern development studies grads still find jobs? Yes but the skills needed are changing

01/09/2018

The TNGO Initiative undertook a major independent assessment of Amnesty International's Global Transition Program in 2017. As Amnesty’s new appointee for the Secretary General of the global human rights movement, Kumi Naidoo will succeed his predecessor in August 2018. We at the TNGO initiative are eager to see how Kumi will lead the next phase of this integral change process.

Kumi Naidoo will be the next Secretary General of Amnesty International